Remember how Speaker Steven Haugaard was trumpeting his desire for a stronger Legislature? Governor Kristi Noem is having none of it: By all accounts, Noem…
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Representative Jon Hansen’s first Wednesday hoghouse was about creating cost and complication for ballot question sponsors at the end of the petition process. His second…
Representative Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) finally filled two of his hoghouse bills dealing with ballot question petitions yesterday in House State Affairs. One of them,…
…Upon One-Fifths Request! The Legislature appears to be adopting a rule to rein in hoghouse amendments. On Tuesday, the Joint Legislative Procedure Committee voted 13–1…
Rep. G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) wants special treatment for his new out-of-state friends’ revised version of Marsy’s Law, the crime victims bill of rights. That…
Hoghouse Coming! Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) had the reasonable idea of increasing campaign finance transparency by requiring ballot question committees to submit mid-year reports…
Alas, the Legislature is not listening to constitutional or practical conservative sense on House Bill 1007. The hoghoused bill, which now simply reads, “No initiated…
Deferral to the 41st Legislative day usually means a bill is dead. House Bill 1007, one of the few reasonable, constructive proposals to come out…
It’s alive—it’s alive! Of the dozen-some carcass bills that were still lurching about in the hopper mid-month, one remains unfilled and active at the Legislature.…
House State Affairs has six bills on its agenda this morning. Incredibly, three of those bills say nothing. Senate Bills 124, 125, and 126 are…