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Panel reviews bill letting South Carolina towns impose operating millage after long hiatus
Summary
A legislative subcommittee heard a bill that would let municipalities with no current operating millage impose one up to one-third of prior general fund expenses; members discussed referendum and timing amendments and agreed to keep working the language.
A legislative subcommittee on Finance on Oct. 12 considered a bill to clarify how South Carolina municipalities with no operating millage can establish one and how municipalities that previously repealed millage can reinstate it.
Grant Gibson, a staff member assisting the subcommittee, summarized the measure as “a bill dealing for cities that have no millage rates,” saying the proposal would provide “a mechanism for cities with no operating millage to impose an operating millage.” The draft would let a city that had no operating millage on Jan. 1, 2025—or one that incorporates after that date—impose an operating millage that can generate up to one-third of the municipality’s general fund expenses from the previous fiscal year.
Erica Wright of the Municipal Association of South Carolina, which identified the item as a 2025 advocacy priority, told the panel the language mirrors Senate Bill 227, which the Senate passed in 2019 but did not become law. “We do…
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