Morning Buzz: Legislature returns, Senate budget wrinkle debuts, SC State review begins

Welcome back, General Assembly

Break is over. The S.C. House and Senate are in session together for the first time in two weeks starting Tuesday. The House could take crucial votes to find money to fix roads, revise criminal-domestic violence laws and ease restrictions for out-of-state concealed-weapons permit holders to carry their guns in South Carolina. The Senate has $7 billion to spend.

Plan being introduced to insure nearly 200,000

The S.C. Senate's finance committee begins budget talks Wednesday with a big, new topic added to the agenda. A bipartisan group of senators will introduce a proposal Tuesday to allow about 194,000 uninsured state residents to use federal and state dollars to buy private health insurance. Previous attempts to expand the federal-state insurance program for the poor in South Carolina, as part of the federal Affordable Care Act, have failed.

S.C. State review begins

S.C. State University’s accreditors begin a three-day visit to the Orangeburg campus on Tuesday by meeting with school trustees behind closed doors. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges placed the accreditation of state’s only historically black public college on probation last year over financial and governance concerns.

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This story was originally published April 14, 2015 at 2:00 AM with the headline "Morning Buzz: Legislature returns, Senate budget wrinkle debuts, SC State review begins."