COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) -- A new legislative session has officially begun in South Carolina. State lawmakers reconvened in Columbia on Tuesday for the first year of the 126th General Assembly. They will spend the next several months proposing and debating hundreds of bills, only some of which will eventually become law. Republicans still dominate the legislature and even picked up a few seats in the November elections, giving them veto-proof supermajorities in both chambers. Republicans hold 34 seats in the Senate, while Democrats control the other 12. In the House, 88 members are Republicans, 35 are Democrats, and there is one vacancy. But, the ongoing intra-party feud between the House GOP Caucus and the 17-member hardline Freedom Caucus could slow things down for Republicans as it did several times last session. As legislators get to work, here is some of what to expect in 2025: House GOP leaders entered the 2025 session promising to deliver "historic" tax cuts. It is a priority for Gov. Henry McMaster, too. While unveiling his proposed budget on Monday, McMaster called for an accelerated tax cut that would take the state's income tax rate from 6.2% to 6%. "Our booming economy has created annual budget surpluses that have allowed us to cut this tax rate faster and farther than originally anticipated," McMaster said. As counties across the state continue to recover from damage caused by Tropical Storm Helene, both Statehouse leaders and the governor signaled that disaster relief funding will be a priority early on. Helene caused significant damage in South Carolina after striking Florida as a major hurricane. It brought strong winds, tornadoes, flooding, and extended power and water outages to many communities. The governor requested $50 million go to the Department of Transportation for unreimbursed costs incurred during and after the storm, such as debris removal and road repairs. He also asked for $40 million to go to the Office of Resilience to replenish the state's disaster recovery fund and $150 million for a disaster recovery grant program administrated by the South Carolina Emergency Management Division. Other issues that House Republican leadership is keen to prioritize in the upcoming session include increasing electric generation capacity, strengthening penalties for fentanyl-induced homicide, and further reforms to the judicial selection process. In the upper chamber, senators are poised to fast-track a new version of the private school voucher bill that was struck down by the South Carolina Supreme Court in September. The revised bill would allow a limited number of qualifying families to get vouchers up to about $8,000 to use toward costs such as tuition, transportation, supplies, or technology at private schools or religious schools. In a 3-2 decision, the Supreme Court found that portions of the original 2023 law violated the state's constitutional prohibition against using government funds to benefit private educational institutions. Senators have proposed getting around that issue by using money from the South Carolina Education Lottery account to fund the program rather than from the state's general fund. "[The] Supreme Court has told us, it's going to be constitutional," Sen. Greg Hembree (R-Horry) said during a Jan. 8 subcommittee meeting. "That’s what I think they’re telling us when they say it’s that lottery money is something different, that it doesn’t go through the general assembly and the general fund, they seem to find some distinction there.” Democrats, like minority leader Sen. Brad Hutto (D-Orangeburg), are less convinced. "We know it's going to be challenged," Hutto said, also suggesting the question of how to use public money should be up to the voters. The Senate is expected to begin debate on the bill Wednesday.