(AP) -- COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Plans to put South Carolina's problem-plagued jobless benefits agency under the governor's control have cleared the state Senate.
The Senate gave final approval on Thursday to an overhaul of the Employment Security Commission that puts the agency into Gov. Mark Sanford's Cabinet as a renamed Workforce Department with a director he appoints.
The chamber also approved a House version of the legislation after making it identical to its own bill and returned it to the House.
Auditors found the commission didn't do enough to head off the state's jobless benefits going broke and that the agency's workers lacked adequate accounting skills.
The Senate version of the legislation could replace the three commissioners overseeing the agency within a couple of months.
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