PIERRE, S.D.(HubCityRadio)- The South Dakota House debated SB129.  The bill modify renewal fee requirements for an on-sale liquor licensee whose business premises have been annexed into a municipality of the first class. The bill was primed on the Senate side by Senator Michael Rohl of Aberdeen.  The bill’s prime on the House was Representative Greg… Read more »

ABERDEEN, S.D.(HubCityRadio)- Due to the Northern State Womens postseason baskeball game being played at 11am on Sunday.  Bethlehem Lutheran Church services normally heard at 10:45am on Fox Sports Aberdeen will air instead at 8:30am that morning. Wolves Warmup will air at 10:30am followed by the game itself on FSA.

PIERRE, S.D.(SDBA)- The South Dakota House Judiciary Committee voted 10-3 Wednesday to send a bill reducing penalties for drug ingestion to the floor without recommendation, following contested testimony from both sides of the issue. Senate Bill 83 would change ingestion of controlled substances from a felony to a Class 1 misdemeanor for first and second… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D.(Press Release) – The South Dakota Highway Patrol has announced sobriety checkpoints will be conducted in 15 different counties during the month of March. These checkpoints will take place in the counties of Brookings, Clay, Codington, Custer, Edmunds, Fall River, Jackson, Jerauld, Lawrence, Lyman, Meade, Minnehaha, Pennington, Roberts, and Spink. The monthly checkpoints are designed… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C.(Press Release) – The U.S. House passed Tuesday night passed the budget resolution on a 217-215 vote.  U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) voted to pass the House budget resolution, kicking off the reconciliation process for the House. “Insolvency cannot be an option,”said Johnson. “I refuse to stand idly by while our government spends its… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D.(SDBA) — A move to defund a program that costs the state $52k a year to help mark the graves of deceased veterans in South Dakota failed to garner even one supportive vote on the House floor Tuesday. Lawmakers rejected House Bill 1038 by a 0-70 vote, a rarity in either chamber. The measure… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D. (SDBA) — The House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday granting the Government Operations and Audit Committee (GOAC) expanded subpoena powers, removing a requirement for the Legislature’s Executive Board approval. House Bill 1204, introduced by Rep. Julie Auch, R-Yankton, passed a narrow margin of 36-34 after a spirited debate on the House floor.… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D.(HubCityRadio)- The South Dakota House on Tuesday debated HB1242.  the bill limit the amount of money that a candidate campaign committee, a political action committee, or a political party may accept from an authorized committee of a candidate for federal office. Prime sponsor of the bill was Representative Spencer Gosch of Glenham. Opposing the… Read more »

PIERRE, S.D.(HubCityRadio)- The South Dakota House debated HB1085 on the floor Tuesday.  The bill establish a moratorium on the construction of carbon dioxide pipelines in this state.  An amendment was made to remove the emergency clause off the title so now a simple majority is needed to pass. Prime sponsor was Representative Richard Vasgaard of… Read more »