I have been asked by more than one friend if we should refer House Bills 1177 and 1196 to a public vote. My tentative answer…
Tag: petitions
Yesterday wasn’t all good for ballot measures in the Legislature. The Senate barely passed House Bill 1177, Rep. Drew Dennert’s part in the Republican push…
Today is the deadline for all Legislative committees to move bills to the House and Senate floors. Assuming a quorum made it back to Pierre…
House Bill 1286, as amended Friday by Rep. Spencer Hawley (D-7/Brookings), fouls the bill’s original intent of satisfying the demands of the Libertarian/Constitutionist lawsuit that…
Lori Stacey’s right: the House messed up House Bill 1286 yesterday. What started as Secretary of State Shantel Krebs’s emergency bill to moot the ballot…
Democracy won a few battles in the Legislature yesterday. Most notably, the House killed House Bill 1275, which would have required ballot question petitioners to obtain…
Back in 2015, the new American Civil Liberties Union policy director for South Dakota, Libby Skarin, warned Senate State Affairs that legislation it was considering…
LRC finally posted the House State Affairs amendment to HB 1275, and I can report with some relief that, in addition to lowering the number…
In his overblown Republic-Not-A-Democracy™ testimony to House State Affairs for House Bill 1275 yesterday, Representative Steven Haugaard defended his unworkable Senate-district quota for ballot question…
In 2016, Secretary of State Shantel Krebs was able to plow through eight ballot question petitions by February 4. This year, Secretary Krebs has finished reviewing…