Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, D-Orangeburg, has proposed a state tax credit for taxpayers who sustain actual losses to identity theft resulting from the hacking of state income tax records.
It’s one of four bills prefiled by local House members in advance of the new legislative session that will begin Jan. 8.
Gov. Nikki Haley announced in October that the tax returns of 3.8 million residents and 700,000 businesses had been stolen from South Carolina Department of Revenue computer servers in the largest hacking of a state agency in the nation’s history.
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Another bill prefiled by Cobb-Hunter proposes phasing in a state equivalent to the federal earned income tax credit. The bill states that the federal credit “is the nation’s most effective antipoverty program for working families” and “has contributed to a significant increase in labor force participation among single mothers.”
Rep. Bakari Sellers, D-Denmark, prefiled a bill that would allow early voting “without excuse” from three to 30 days ahead of an election.
Sellers is a cosponsor — with Alan Clemmons, R-Myrtle Beach — of a prefiled bill that would discourage economic investments in companies that do business with Iran.
In other legislative news Tuesday, Cobb-Hunter was named to a six-member committee that will study the facilities of the state’s 85 school districts and 33 institutions of higher education.
