Flags across South Carolina will fly at half staff the day Coretta Scott King is buried in Atlanta.

The House and Senate on Wednesday approved a resolution ordering flags lowered.

Gov. Mark Sanford had asked lawmakers to adopt the resolution because he does not think state law gives him the authority to order the flag lowered for King, the wife of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who died Tuesday.

Three bills before the General Assembly would broaden state law to allow Sanford to lower the flags any time Congress or the president order flags to half staff at federal installations.

— Aaron Gould Sheinin