JOSEPH BUSTOS

TNS/The State

South Carolina's cash only lottery game is on track to finally allow debit cards.

A part of the state budget approved by lawmakers Wednesday is a provision that will allow people to buy lottery tickets using debit cards or digital debit cards.

It could bring in an estimated $52 million a year into state coffers, and is a move supported by Gov. Henry McMaster.

But didn't a state senator kill this move earlier in the year?

Yes, state Sen. Brian Adams, R-Berkeley, used a Senate rule to remove the proposed proviso to allow debit cards to be used to buy lottery tickets from the Senate budget proposal. Senate rules prevent provisos that amend current laws from being included in the annual spending plan.

Adams also has been blocking stand-alone legislation in th

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