Another IM22 replacement bill, Senate Bill 131, made it through Senate State Affairs unanimously yesterday. IM22 Section 65 would have toughened the revolving-door restriction on lobbying…
Month: February 2017
Senator R. Blake Curd did something nice this week. The Republican Majority Leader had the opportunity to appoint a replacement for fellow Republican Drew Duncan on…
No one hit the panic button on House Bill 1073 yesterday, House State Affairs approved HB 1073 unanimously with amendments. HB 1073 is one of…
The public meeting RESPEC and its partners in the Deep Borehole Field Test had planned to hold in Philip last month evidently got called for weather.…
While chairing House State Affairs this morning, Representative Larry Rhoden (R-29/Union Center) hit the literal panic button. In the midst of debate on House Bill…
SB 141 Lowers Burdens on Poor Parents, Increases Child Support Obligations Less Than Cost of Living…
…and Other Number Crunching! Senate Bill 141, the update of South Dakota child support laws delayed last month by misguided anti-child-support activists, comes before Senate Judiciary tomorrow (Tuesday)…
At last week’s press conference following the guilty plea of the state’s former EB-5 czar Joop Bollen, I asked Attorney General Marty Jackley if the state…
Will House Education pass science this morning, or will they pass Senate Bill 55? Senator Jeff Monroe is trying for the fourth year in a row…
If you like Hilger’s Gulch and brevity, you’ll love Senate Bill 154. Senator Jason Frerichs (D-1/Wilmot) offers this simple one-line bill: The Department of Transportation shall utilize…
The President of the United States took sides in the Super Bowl, but he seems remarkably ambivalent about picking sides between the country he quarterbacks…