The SC legislative session in 20 numbers

As the S.C. Legislature’s regular session draws to a close Thursday, 20 of the most important numbers that have emerged:

GENERAL

$7.5 billion

The state’s general fund budget that will take effect July 1, up from $7 billion this year

$1.2 billion

Amount of “new” revenue, due in part to the growing economy, that lawmakers had to spend in the state budget taking effect July 1

SUMMERTIME

$30 million

Amount budgeted for beach renourishment along the coast

SCHOOLS

$2,350

Amount per pupil that lawmakers approved sending to school districts, up $130 a student from this year

$200 million

Amount S.C. House members voted to borrow to help rural schools build new facilities in response to a two-decade-old lawsuit; the proposal did not pass the Senate, but lawmakers plan to reintroduce it next year

ROADS

$200 million

Amount lawmakers approved for road repairs, which they plan to use to borrow via bonds for those repairs

$4 billion

Amount in road and bridge projects the Transportation Department estimates it will be able to complete over 10 years with the added money

$1.5 billion

Estimated cost to fix Columbia’s infamous Malfunction Junction, the area surrounding Interstates 20 and 26, that the Transportation Department says it will fix with the added money

400

Crumbling bridges that will be replaced

8

Transportation Department commission members the governor will be able to name after July 1

1

Members of the eight-person Transportation Department commission the governor names now

SOCIAL ISSUES

2

Transgender bathroom bills that S.C. legislators scuttled after watching North Carolina’s passage of HB2 subject that state to a nationwide backlash

20 weeks

Pregnancy length at which abortions can no longer be performed in South Carolina after passage of a new law

FLOOD RECOVERY

$40 million

Aid – in the form of grants – that legislators approved for S.C. farmers who lost crops in last fall’s historic flooding

$72 million

Amount legislators approved to help state and local governments match federal flood-recovery money

STATE WORKERS

3.25 percent

Pay raise approved for state employees

61,000

State employees – paid from the general fund, by the federal government or from “other” funds – who will be eligible for the pay increase

$10,400

Base salary lawmakers are paid; lawmakers also get $12,000-a-year for in-district spending

BAILING OUT S.C. STATE

$12 million

State loans to S.C. State forgiven by legislators

$6 million

State loans that the school still has to repay over the next 16 years

This story was originally published June 1, 2016 at 9:09 PM with the headline "The SC legislative session in 20 numbers."