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The Latest: SC Senate committee<br />

OKs bill to track refugees (3)<br />

COLUMBIA, S. C. (AP) --<br />

The Latest on a South<br />

Carolina bill to track<br />

refugees (all times local):<br />

4:45 p.m.<br />

A bill requiring state<br />

police to track refugees coming to South<br />

Carolina and to hold their sponsors liable for<br />

damages if they commit an act of terrorism is on<br />

its way to the floor of the state Senate.<br />

A Senate committee approved the measure on<br />

Wednesday. A spokesman for an organization<br />

focused on protecting the civil rights of Muslims<br />

said South Carolina is the first state he knows of<br />

that has proposed such a registry.<br />

The proposal has wide support among<br />

conservative Republicans, but its future could be<br />

bleak. Three Democrats voted against it<br />

Wednesday, with one of them blocking floor<br />

debate. A Republican who initially supported the

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