Another important bill headed for conference committee is Senate Bill 113, in which the Legislature attempts to replace the unconstitutional 12-month deadline for initiative petitions…
Tag: initiative
In Colorado the circulation period was six months, and the filing deadline was three months before the election. South Dakota’s circulation period is one year. In…
Senate State Affairs saved the state from another lawsuit yesterday. On an 8–1 vote, the committee killed House Bill 1200, Rep. Elizabeth May’s (R-27/Kyle) unconstitutional…
Rick Weiland and his ballot question committee, Dakotans for Health, hasn’t even begun circulating its initiative petition to repeal South Dakota’s unusual and immoral sales…
Representative Tony Venhuizen (R-13/Sioux Falls) got the House to go along with his attempt to gum up Medicaid expansion with a work requirement, but he…
House Bill 1200‘s geographical quota for constitutional amendment petitions would make it practically impossible for citizens to put constitutional amendments on the ballot. But no…
When I received the Eighth Circuit’s solid affirmation of my challenge to South Dakota’s unconstitutionally early 12-month deadline for submitting initiative petitions, I considered teasing…
I was talking with an acquaintance with a fair political background but no knowledge of South Dakota politics or my own political activity. I mentioned…
The South Dakota Republican Party’ latest attack on direct democracy is House Bill 1200, which would impose a geographical quota on petition signatures to place…
In 2018, South Dakota voters incorrectly and anti-democratically approved Amendment Z, the single-subject rule for proposed constitutional amendments. In 2021, Governor Kristi Noem and the…