Senator Tom Davis

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for September 14, 2024: Rep. Joe Wilson suffered what appeared to be a stroke this week and remains hospitalized in stable condition; the University of South Carolina women’s basketball team visited the White House to celebrate their national championship title; we hear from former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley and Gov. Henry McMaster who headlined a fundraiser for Sen. Tom Davis; and more!

The veto was one of 21 line items nixed by the governor Wednesday.

"I don’t make any apologies for the fact that this is a very conservative, tightly regulated bill," said S.C. Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort.

South Carolina is one of 10 holdouts against Medicaid expansion. Attitudes towards expansion, however, might be changing.

The South Carolina Senate started debate over Sen. Tom Davis' medical marijuana bill on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. Senators ended the week without taking a vote.

The bill seeks to limit how certain short-term lenders can solicit new and maintain existing borrowers.

If the bill becomes law, it would see the state departments of Mental Health, Disability and Special Needs, Health and Human Services, Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse, and the Office on Aging consolidate with DHEC’s Division of Public Health.

March 28, 2023 — A look at what has happened with the SC Senate medical marijuana bill that was set to move again this year; the latest on major bills moving through the state House during the final weeks of the legislative session; an update on unemployment numbers; and more.

A South Carolina state senator says he was cited for public intoxication early New Year's Day while sitting in his parked car after realizing he drank too much and shouldn't be driving. Republican Sen. Tom Davis said in a statement from his law firm that he had sat in his parked car for over an hour before a Lexington Police officer approached him and eventually issued a ticket for public intoxication. Davis says he cooperated immediately and fully with the officer, and his statement emphasized he was not charged with driving while intoxicated. Davis has been in the state Senate since 2009.