COLUMBIA--The state House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected a move by the governor that would have allowed the Department of Public Safety to charge for traffic control at special events, such as the crowds that gather at Williams-Bryce Stadium for University of South Carolina football games.

Gov. Mark Sanford handed down 22 vetoes on last year's budget, among them a veto on a prohibition of a nominal fee for security services provided by the state Highway Patrol during special events. The governor's veto would have allowed the fees.

Chris Drummond, communications director for Sanford, said the governor was responding to a request from DPS Director Boykin Rose that would allow the department certain flexibility in the area. Security for a Gamecock football game, for example, requires more than a hundred officers, Drummond said.

The measure to override Sanford's veto passed 90 to 14. It was one of five vetoes overridden.

Legislators restored $60,045 to Leadership South Carolina, saying the program trained political and business leaders. The governor felt the program should be funded privately or by the participants themselves.

Lawmakers also restored a requirement that the Department of Health and Human Services issue a fiscal impact statement to legislative leadership whenever the department plans to change eligibility, coverage, duration or scope of services, reimbursement rates or any other change that would affect Medicaid spending.

Sanford had vetoed the plan because he found the reporting requirements "unduly cumbersome." Instead, the governor issued an executive order calling for annual reporting.

The House let stand most of Sanford's vetoes of 10 items on a "wish-list" -- that is programs that would be funded if the state collected more money than expected. The House voted to keep money flowing to two programs: $700,000 for the state's share of improving voting systems and $50,000 for Special Olympics.

"It's obviously great for us," said Barry Coats, president of the Special Olympics of South Carolina.

One veto that stood was cutting a little less than $100,000 for staff at the Commission on Women. Sanford's office is paying that bill.

Sanford "saved us $100,000 and paid for it out of his governor's office budget," House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bobby Harrell, R-Charleston, said.

The governor's veto of $150,000 in operating expenses for the John de la Howe School, a school for abused and neglected children, was also allowed to stand. The governor's recent budget proposal called for eliminating the school's general fund appropriations of more than $3 million, closing the school and moving the children served to the Wil Lou Gray Opportunity School.

John de la Howe serves about 65 students and has a total budget of more than $4.5 million.

The vetoed bills will now go before the Senate.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.