While many social issues took center stage in the media this year, a number of the Greenville Chamber and Upstate Chamber Coalition priorities moved forward at the Statehouse.

The Senate and the House each passed a number of other pro-business bills, some of which made it into law in the first year of the session: legislation giving small businesses the ability to lower their federal tax burden, COVID liability protections, approving higher teacher pay, extending the abandoned buildings tax credit, and expanded scholarships for students attending our two-year colleges.

Each year, we publish this Legislative Report to let you know not only what we were able to do for our investors this year, but also to show you how your Upstate legislators voted. This is not meant to be a scorecard — there are lots of reasons a member voted yea, nay, or simply couldn’t vote. Take a look at the votes in this guide and ask your legislators what they did to help ensure your priorities became law. Advocacy doesn’t end on sine die, since this is the first year of a two-year session.

We hope you will continue your activism in 2021 so the Upstate will continue to be the best place to start or locate a business.

READ THE GUIDE