House State Affairs has 4 bills on Mon Feb 29, Internet Sales Tax and forbidding sale of baby parts

On Monday, February 29, at 7:45 am the SD House State Affairs committee will take on 4 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. SB…

Bills on the SD Senate Floor for Tues Jan 26

SD Senate Floor. Photo by Ken Santema 03/30/15. Here are the bills on the South Dakota Senate floor for Tuesday, January 26, which begins at 2:00 PM central. This is compiled using the calendar at the time of composing this post. Agendas can and do change! A pretty small calendar for today. CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS SB 6 (SoDakLiberty Posts) – Revise certain performance security requirements for…

Department bills are getting prefiled for the 2016 legislative session

I was looking at the South Dakota Legislative Research Council (LRC) website and noticed four department bills were prefiled for the 2016 legislative session. I’ll look briefly at the four bills. But before doing so it might be worth adding a few words about department bills in general. Department bills Department bills are somewhat controversial. This is because all bills are supposed to…