Mary Green

Columbia

State House Reporter at WIS-TV (Columbia, SC)

State House Reporter at WCSC-TV (Charleston, SC)

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McMaster again vetoes bill to toss out hundreds of pending gun charges in SC

1 week ago | wistv.com | Mary Green

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Hundreds of charges are currently pending across South Carolina for offenses that are no longer crimes under state law. But the governor has now put a stop to an effort to toss out all of those charges. For two years in a row, a bipartisan bill to dismiss certain pending gun charges has passed the General Assembly with broad support, and twice now, Gov. Henry McMaster has vetoed it, most recently, earlier this month.
LIVE: McMaster to holding signing SC ‘revenge porn’ bill

1 week ago | live5news.com | Patrick Phillips |Mary Green

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is set to hold a signing of a bill designed to protect South Carolinians from deepfake and revenge pornography. House Bill H.3058, the Unauthorized Disclosure of Intimate Images Act, adds criminal penalties against anyone sharing intimate images of someone else without that person’s consent. That includes AI-generated images made to look like real photos of an identifiable person.
SC leaders mark new law on tort reform, liquor liability, promise more to come

1 week ago | live5news.com | Mary Green

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - Leaders at the State House believe a new law will provide relief to struggling bars and restaurants around South Carolina while making the justice system fairer.
Do state actions concerning Columbia’s conversion therapy ban violate local rule?

1 week ago | wistv.com | Mary Green

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A fight over how much control local governments have over their own communities versus the state’s authority to step in is brewing in South Carolina’s capital city. It all centers around a local ordinance enacted in the City of Columbia in 2021, banning conversion therapy for minors — the use of counseling to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
Negotiators finalize deal for SC’s upcoming $14.7B state budget

2 weeks ago | wistv.com | Mary Green

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - In the next year, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are set to go toward fixing South Carolina roads and bridges, while teachers, state employees, and state lawmakers are all in line for pay raises. Those are a few of the big-ticket items of the budget deal legislative negotiators reached this week on South Carolina’s $14.7 billion spending plan. But it was not what was in the deal, but rather how it was struck, that made this compromise atypical.
How several new education laws will impact SC students, schools

2 weeks ago | live5news.com | Mary Green

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - Efforts to improve school transparency, keep teachers in the classroom, and protect kids on campus all earned a major focus of South Carolina’s General Assembly this year. Several of the bills Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law in 2025 will impact statewide education policy, and most notched high marks from teachers.
What difference did new GOP supermajority make in SC Senate this year?

3 weeks ago | wistv.com | Mary Green

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Republicans notched a huge win last November in South Carolina, picking up a GOP supermajority in the state Senate for the first time in more than 150 years. Months later, the first legislative session with that supermajority in place, in addition to the one House Republicans picked up three years ago, has wrapped up. Leaders in the upper chamber said the new dynamic made somewhat of a difference this year, but it was not necessarily reflected in legislation.
Governor, SC officials urge preparation now for hurricane season

3 weeks ago | wistv.com | Mary Green

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WIS) - The devastating and deadly impacts from Hurricane Helene last year proved hurricanes are statewide events in South Carolina, not just on the coast. With the next hurricane season just days away, Gov. Henry McMaster headed to North Charleston on Thursday to share the latest on preparations and what South Carolinians need to do now to be ready. State leaders said they have been preparing since last winter for this hurricane season.
‘We have prevailed’: Governor praises SC Supreme Court 6-week abortion ban ruling

3 weeks ago | live5news.com | Patrick Phillips |Mary Green

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster proclaimed victory Wednesday morning after a state Supreme Court ruling upholding the state’s so-called “Fetal Heartbeat Bill.” “Time and time again, we have defended the right to life in South Carolina, and time and time again, we have prevailed,” McMaster said in a statement.
What’s law, what’s paused, and what’s dead after SC’s 2025 legislative session

3 weeks ago | wistv.com | Mary Green

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Energy, liquor liability, education, and taxes all dominated attention for the last several months at the South Carolina State House. Gov. Henry McMaster has already signed more than 70 new bills into law this year, with more on their way to his desk soon, but other priorities will have to wait until next year to try to get there.