#2016:sb136

SD Dist 15 State House Gen Election: Smith, Soli, Myers, and Leggett

SD Legislative District 15. South Dakota legislative District 15 has  a general election for State House. District 15 seems to mostly fall within Northern Sioux Falls. One of the Democrat incumbents, Rep Patrick Kirschman, was term limited and tried for the State Senate seat (losing to fellow Democrat Reynold Nesiba in the primary election). Rep Karen Soli is the other incumbent and is…

SD Dist 5 State House Gen Election: Bartels, York, Alvine, and Haan

SD Legislative District 5 South Dakota legislative District 5 has  a general election for State Representative.  District 5 is basically just Watertown. The District 5 House race is interesting because there are no incumbents and also because there is an independent candidate running. One of the incumbents, Republican Rep Roger Solum, tried for the District 5 State Senate seat after being…

SD Dist 3 State House Gen Election: Dennert, Kaiser, Briscoe, and Bootz

SD Legislative District 3 South Dakota legislative District 3 has  a general election for State Representative. District 3 encompasses most of Aberdeen. But it also goes out to encompass Bath and Prairiewood. One of the Republican incumbents, Rep Al Novstrup, is seeking the State Senate seat being vacated by his son Sen David Novstrup. On the Republican side there was a three-way primary between…

None of Governor Daugaard’s vetoes overridden in the 2016 legislative session

SD Governor Dennis Daugaard. Photo by Ken Santema 12/10/16. Yesterday was the final day of the South Dakota legislative session. The legislature had to consider three regular vetoes and two style and form vetoes in yesterdays session. As to the two style and form vetoes, one was agreed to and the other was not. There was also one veto earlier in the session, the infamous transgender locker room…

SD Senate will convene at 10 am on Tues Mar 29 to consider vetoes

SD Senate Floor. Photo by Ken Santema 03/03/16. On Tuesday, March 29, the South Dakota State Senate will convene at 10:00 am to consider gubernatorial vetoes. The SD House is scheduled to convene at 11:00 am. All five bill up for consideration are Senate bills, so all of them will start in that chamber. Two of the five bills are style and form vetoes; so the legislature has to decide whether to…

Governor Daugaard vetoes SB 136, the buffer strip bill

Today, March 25, South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard announced his veto of SB 136, a bill “to permit certain cropland along lakes, rivers, and streams to be assessed as noncropland”. This post will briefly look at the bill. It still has to go before the legislature next Tuesday to see if the veto will be overridden. SB 136 (SoDakLiberty Posts) – Permit certain cropland along lakes, rivers, and…

House Ag has 3 bills on Tues Mar 1, 660 rule and buffer strips

On Tuesday, March 1, at 7:45 am the SD House Agriculture and Natural Resources 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.…