A subcommittee of the House Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee approved a call to strip away a reform hashed out for months in the South Carolina Senate and to substitute its own version.
Those involved in the heated debate over Senate Bill 332 said the decision, if approved by the full committee and passed by the House, sets the stage for a showdown in a House-Senate conference panel during the final weeks of the 2007 session.
Frank Knapp, president of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, said he was assured by one Senate leader the upper house would send in its to...
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