McMaster asks for money for unemployment trust fund, small businesses.

A second round of pandemic relief funding recommendations from S.C. Gov. Henry Master includes $450 million to replenish the state's unemployment trust fund and $45 million in grants for small businesses which did not receive federal Paycheck Protection Program loans.

McMaster made the recommendations Thursday in a letter (.pdf) to the General Assembly.

"As you are aware, the AccelerateSC task force conducted a thorough review of the CARES Act and made expenditure reimbursement recommendations for COVID-19 prevention efforts, and for measures for returning our state's economic engines to full speed," the governor wrote.

McMaster also recommended $50 million be distributed to public school districts and charter schools to help with pandemic-related reopening costs; $93 million to aid in pandemic relief efforts by the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control and the Medical University of South Carolina; and $100 million to reimburse state agencies with verifiable pandemic-related...