Among the bills crushed in Capitol crossover last week was House Bill 1309, Rep. Elizabeth May’s crafty plan to subject the $1.11 billion we give up…
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The House passed HB 1184, the CAFO poopline bill, Tuesday on a 45–20 vote. True to his word, my Representative Drew Dennert reversed his mistaken…
I caught the tail end of a really cool Legislative trick in House Taxation this morning. One of the wiliest coyotes in the House, Republican…
The debate that consumed the largest chunk of the House’s time yesterday afternoon was over House Bill 1120, which would require all public school districts…
House Bill 1268 is a yummy bill strictly for Legislature nerds (Legi-nerds? Rotunda-heads?). Currently, legislators may prefile bills with the Legislative Research Council no earlier…
My subcomplaint about the new travel reimbursement for legislators spectating at interim committee hearings is that the subsidy was approved at last week’s Executive Board meeting…
Why did at least ten legislators (Rep. Elizabeth May, Rep. Sue Peterson, Rep. Sam Marty, Rep. Kristin Conzet, Sen. Terri Haverly, Rep. Steve Livermont, Rep. Chip…
In a April 6, 2017, letter, 20 legislators led by Representative Elizabeth May (R-27/Kyle) ask their colleagues on the Government Audit and Operations Committee to hold public…
Representative Elizabeth May may not be testing SNAP recipients for drugs, but she and her fellow conservatives continue to aim more suspicion than compassion at the poor. May’s House…
I must still be a conservative: most of the time, I end up measuring the success of the South Dakota Legislature by what they don’t do…