The culture war meets bureaucratic nightmare in Senator Jessica Castleberry’s Senate Bill 193, a proposal to make choosing classroom materials impossible for teachers. SB 193…
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Also on deck for Senate State Affairs Wednesday morning is Senate Bill 139, rookie Senator Randy Deibert‘s (R-31/Spearfish) swing at the RV-voter piñata. Deibert proposes…
South Dakota’s Constitution assigns the Lieutenant Governor to preside over the State Senate and cast tie-breaking votes, just as the United States Constitution assigns the…
Rookie Senator Brent Hoffman (R-9/Sioux Falls) wants to clear out some dead wood from the Legislature. His Senate Joint Resolution 504 would put before voters an amendment…
The Senate has published a redacted transcript of the testimony it took behind closed doors from the Legislative Research Council employee who accused Senator Julie…
Representative Rebecca Reimer (R-26B/Chamberlain) is pretending to codify Governor Kristi Noem’s promise not to prosecute women for seeking abortions. But Reimer’s House Bill 1220 falls…
California can figure out how to tax lithium mining, but South Dakota can’t. Representative Kirk Chaffee (R-29/Whitewood) proposed House Bill 1072 to subject lithium to…
One of two bills seeking to ban absentee ballot drop boxes passed its first committee vote yesterday. House Bill 1165 tucks its drop box ban at…
(Dang, maybe I need to sign on with Senator Bolin’s objection to officially renaming the state penitentiary and other prisons as “correctional facilities.” Pen Pen works…