WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:19.1670000" NOTE recognizability:0.851 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.90289736 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.166 Wow, well this week proposed legislation NOTE Confidence: 0.90289736 00:00:02.166 --> 00:00:04.510 here at home meant to restrict NOTE Confidence: 0.90289736 00:00:04.510 --> 00:00:06.605 South Carolina business with Russia. NOTE Confidence: 0.90289736 00:00:06.610 --> 00:00:08.728 Could see some movement at the NOTE Confidence: 0.90289736 00:00:08.728 --> 00:00:10.902 statehouse in all four bills have NOTE Confidence: 0.90289736 00:00:10.902 --> 00:00:12.978 been written and are now making NOTE Confidence: 0.90289736 00:00:12.978 --> 00:00:15.273 their way through the house and the NOTE Confidence: 0.90289736 00:00:15.273 --> 00:00:17.630 Senate to try and do just that. NOTE Confidence: 0.90289736 00:00:17.630 --> 00:00:20.090 News 19 Becky Buds has an NOTE Confidence: 0.90289736 00:00:20.090 --> 00:00:22.520 update on the progress. In NOTE Confidence: 0.89947724 00:00:22.520 --> 00:00:24.260 a bipartisan effort, South Carolina NOTE Confidence: 0.89947724 00:00:24.260 --> 00:00:26.410 lawmakers are trying to pass legislation NOTE Confidence: 0.89947724 00:00:26.410 --> 00:00:28.498 to levy sanctions against Russia for NOTE Confidence: 0.89947724 00:00:28.498 --> 00:00:31.108 its invasion of Ukraine. We've got to NOTE Confidence: 0.89947724 00:00:31.110 --> 00:00:32.900 send a united message to NOTE Confidence: 0.89947724 00:00:32.900 --> 00:00:34.690 Russia that this is wrong. NOTE Confidence: 0.89947724 00:00:34.690 --> 00:00:36.118 We're not gonna tolerate NOTE Confidence: 0.89947724 00:00:36.120 --> 00:00:37.935 it. Orangeburg County Senator Brad NOTE Confidence: 0.89947724 00:00:37.935 --> 00:00:40.152 Hutto has introduced a bill that NOTE Confidence: 0.89947724 00:00:40.152 --> 00:00:42.210 would ban the state retirement fund, NOTE Confidence: 0.89947724 00:00:42.210 --> 00:00:44.394 a benefit plan for State University NOTE Confidence: 0.89947724 00:00:44.394 --> 00:00:46.251 and public school employees from NOTE Confidence: 0.89947724 00:00:46.251 --> 00:00:47.936 invest money in Russian owned. NOTE Confidence: 0.89947724 00:00:47.940 --> 00:00:50.362 Hutto says Russian investments make up a NOTE Confidence: 0.89947724 00:00:50.362 --> 00:00:53.128 small part of the state retirement fund. NOTE Confidence: 0.89947724 00:00:53.130 --> 00:00:55.825 So the impact on employees will be NOTE Confidence: 0.86450815 00:00:55.830 --> 00:00:58.068 minimal. The early look at the NOTE Confidence: 0.86450815 00:00:58.068 --> 00:01:00.001 retirement plan showed that there NOTE Confidence: 0.86450815 00:01:00.001 --> 00:01:01.493 was approximately $33 million NOTE Confidence: 0.86450815 00:01:01.493 --> 00:01:03.940 of of many billions of dollars. NOTE Confidence: 0.86450815 00:01:03.940 --> 00:01:05.480 It should not affect NOTE Confidence: 0.86450815 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:06.635 anybody's retirement over NOTE Confidence: 0.86450815 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:08.565 in the House. Representative Russell NOTE Confidence: 0.86450815 00:01:08.565 --> 00:01:10.105 Fry represents Surfside Beach. NOTE Confidence: 0.86450815 00:01:10.110 --> 00:01:12.385 He's filed a bill that would ban NOTE Confidence: 0.86450815 00:01:12.385 --> 00:01:14.355 liquor stores from selling alcohol NOTE Confidence: 0.86450815 00:01:14.355 --> 00:01:16.675 manufactured or produced in Russia. NOTE Confidence: 0.86450815 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:18.220 All efforts, Basile Bobic, NOTE Confidence: 0.86450815 00:01:18.220 --> 00:01:20.145 whose family lives in Ukraine, NOTE Confidence: 0.86450815 00:01:20.150 --> 00:01:22.080 is excited to see they NOTE Confidence: 0.7895955925 00:01:22.080 --> 00:01:24.588 are doing. Writing to cut all NOTE Confidence: 0.7895955925 00:01:24.588 --> 00:01:27.267 the cars with Russia because you NOTE Confidence: 0.7895955925 00:01:27.267 --> 00:01:30.027 don't wanna have any business or NOTE Confidence: 0.7895955925 00:01:30.027 --> 00:01:33.040 paying any money for the aggressor. NOTE Confidence: 0.7895955925 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:35.300 Bobic recently organized a protest NOTE Confidence: 0.78278536 00:01:35.300 --> 00:01:37.004 at the State House, NOTE Confidence: 0.78278536 00:01:37.004 --> 00:01:39.134 calling on lawmakers take some NOTE Confidence: 0.78278536 00:01:39.134 --> 00:01:41.063 sort of legislative action NOTE Confidence: 0.78278536 00:01:41.063 --> 00:01:43.433 against the war on Ukraine. NOTE Confidence: 0.78278536 00:01:43.440 --> 00:01:45.248 Bob says actions speak NOTE Confidence: 0.78278536 00:01:45.250 --> 00:01:49.182 louder than words. We will be fighting. NOTE Confidence: 0.78278536 00:01:49.182 --> 00:01:50.897 We will be protesting until NOTE Confidence: 0.7966688 00:01:50.900 --> 00:01:52.610 this passes with bipartisan support. NOTE Confidence: 0.7966688 00:01:52.610 --> 00:01:54.674 Senator Josh Kimbrell sees no reason NOTE Confidence: 0.7966688 00:01:54.674 --> 00:01:57.070 why these bills wouldn't pass. I think NOTE Confidence: 0.7966688 00:01:57.070 --> 00:01:59.464 that we're looking at a quick passage. NOTE Confidence: 0.7966688 00:01:59.470 --> 00:02:02.214 There is unanimous, as far as I can NOTE Confidence: 0.7966688 00:02:02.214 --> 00:02:03.928 tell, unanimous support in both NOTE Confidence: 0.7966688 00:02:03.930 --> 00:02:05.991 parties for this in Colombia, Becky NOTE Confidence: 0.7966688 00:02:05.991 --> 00:02:08.390 Buds News 19 WLTX well. Senator Hutto NOTE Confidence: 0.796668799999999 00:02:08.390 --> 00:02:10.100 says the state retirement fund NOTE Confidence: 0.796668799999999 00:02:10.100 --> 00:02:12.604 bill could be taken up by the NOTE Confidence: 0.796668799999999 00:02:12.604 --> 00:02:14.414 Senate Finance Committee as early NOTE Confidence: 0.796668799999999 00:02:14.414 --> 00:02:16.857 as tomorrow and expects it to be NOTE Confidence: 0.796668799999999 00:02:16.857 --> 00:02:19.166 passed within the next. Two weeks.