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Governor's legislative agenda focuses on tax relief, restructuring, education, tort reform

(Columbia-AP) Oct. 12, 2004 - Governor Mark Sanford presented his agenda on Tuesday for the next legislative session.

Sanford says he'll work with House and Senate leadership on his "Contract for Change" to pass income tax relief, government restructuring, more educational choices for parents and tort reform.

He also wants to update the rules of the Senate, which prevented some of his agenda from being passed last year.

Most of these issues were around last session.

Last year, Sanford listed 16 legislative items as priorities last session. Of those, the House passed 14 and the Senate passed three. Sanford says he'll be discussing specifics for each of his five priorities over the next few days.

updated 2:01pm by Chantelle Janelle

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