"S" is for South Carolina Commission on Government Restructuring.

"S" is for South Carolina Commission on Government Restructuring. In March 1991 Governor Carroll Campbell appointed the thirty-eight-member Commission on Government Restructuring to devise a blueprint for enhancing the powers of the state’s weak chief executive. The report, issued in September 1991, called for a dramatic shift to a cabinet fork of government similar to that used in forty states. Almost all agencies and boards would be reorganized into fifteen cabinet departments with directors appointed by the governor. In 1992 the determination of lawmakers to retain their power and agencies their independence scuttled the plan into amend the constitution. In 1993 pressure from business leaders led the General Assembly to pass legislation creating a modified form of cabinet government that reflected the work and findings of the South Carolina Commission on Government Restructuring.