South Carolina House members are returned to Columbia on Wednesday August 27 to take up two of Gov. Nikki Haley’s vetoes, one with a direct impact for the Grand Strand. One bill being considered is intended to help South Carolina’s public libraries keep out disruptive people. The other is a local bill allowing a tax hike for firefighting in coastal Murrell’s Inlet and Garden City.

A spokesman for House Speaker Bobby Harrell said on Friday that the House will hold a special, one-day session on Wednesday to decide whether to override vetoes left over from the session that ended in June.

Both of the bills being considered are Senate bills. The Senate voted overwhelmingly to override Haley’s opposition, but those votes occurred in the last days of an extended legislative session, after the House already had gone home. An override requires a two-thirds vote in both chambers.

Governor Haley vetoed the bill that would have increased taxes for the Murrells Inlet/Garden City Fire District, saying that it would set a precedent of allowing a district to increase taxes without voter approval.

But Haley said the bill would set a dangerous precedent. “I am not opposed to the needs of a fire district, however I don’t believe in backdoor approaches to raising taxes. Taxpayers have the right to know,” she said on her Facebook page. The bill would increase property taxes by $25, on average, if passed. Hitchcock lives, owns a business, and pays taxes in Murrells Inlet and said he doesn’t want to pay more taxes, but sometimes there’s a clear need for it.

And on Wednesday August 27th the House voted 75-36 to override Haley’s veto. The law allows a misdemeanor trespassing charge against people who return to a library before their written warning to stay away expires.

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