SD House Session begins at 10:30 today, March 9

SD House Floor. Photo by Ken Santema 3/3/16. These last few days of session will work a bit different for the SD House. Yesterday the House kicked out the last of the Senate bills, so now most of the time spent will be in conference committees and on finalizing the budget. Today the House floor has only three bills actually scheduled when they convene at 10:30 am. The House Floor video can be…

House State Affairs has 3 bills on Weds Feb 24, fetal body parts, Building SD, and open meetings

On Wednesday, February 24, at 8:30 am the SD House State Affairs committee will take on 3 bills. This is compiled using the agenda at the time of composing this post. Agendas can and do change! One way to listen to these meetings live is via the audio links on the Schedule page of the LRC website. While there you can also view the status board for the meetings as they are going on. *** Notice the…

Senate State Affairs has 2 bills on Weds Feb 3, A look at proposed Internet Sales Tax

On Wednesday, February 3, at 10:00 AM the SD Senate State Affairs committee will take on 2 bills. This is compiled using the agenda at the time of composing this post. Agendas can and do change! Most of this post will look at the proposed Internet Sales Tax. It is maybe not fair calling it that, because it looks to apply to all goods that are sold to and shipped into SD. SB 45 (SoDakLiberty…

PUC, Code Commission, and GOED each have a bill prefiled

This post will look at some bills filed for the South Dakota 2016 legislative session that don’t fall within the categories of other bills I’ve been blogging about. The Public Utilities Commission (PUC), the Code Commission, and the Governors Office of Economic Development (GOED) all have one bill filed each. This post is a brief look at these three bills and some initial thoughts I may have…