Governor Mark Sanford brought his "contract for change" to Spartanburg Wednesday morning.

The governor was at Spartanburg Regional to campaign for tort reform in South Carolina.

Sanford claims medical malpractice premiums for OB/GYN practitioners in the state have gone up nearly 400% in five years.

His "Contract for Change" has five items, compared to sixteen last year.

The contract items are: income tax relief; government restructuring; more educational choices for parents; tort reform; and updating Senate rules.

He says they're all focused on one goal--competitiveness. "It is absolutely essential that we become more competitive as a state," he said.

He pushed income tax relief this year, but it failed by just three votes. He'll try again next year, saying it would especially help small businesses create new jobs. His plan is to lower the state's top income tax rate from 7 percent to 4.75 percent over a six-year period.

His government restructuring proposal this year was too large, he said. So next year he'll scale it back, focusing on health care reform, administrative restructuring and on some of the constitutional offices.

His plan to offer more educational choices for parents includes his "Put Parents In Charge Act", which failed this year. It would offer tax credits to parents so they could send their children to another public school, a private school, or if they're home-schooled.

Tristen Sharpe stood behind the governor during his news conference because she's behind his "Put Parents In Charge" act. She used to be a public school teacher, but now teaches her three boys at home.

"I assume that to be able to have monies available to educate your children would enable a lot more parents to make the choices that they feel are appropriate for their families," she says.

His final agenda item is to update state Senate rules. The House passed 14 of his 16 agenda items this year, but the Senate passed only 3. Most of his ideas, along with many others, died in the Senate because they never came up for a vote.

That doesn't mean all of the governor's agenda will pass, but it would mean that the items could at least be debated.