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PIERRE, S.D.(WNAX)- South Dakota legislators continued to kill bills, and call it progress as they head to the end of the main run of this years session. Representative Chris Karr says debate over a bill detailing information from community providers set their direction. Karr says they did get agreements over their intent. The House then… Read more »
PIERRE, S.D.(WNAX)- Sometimes progress is made in the South Dakota legislature when bills are defeated. That was the case with a bill designed to set up a Medicaid expansion fund. The bill was amended in both Houses before it landed in a conference committee, which recommended that the bill be killed. Representative Tony Venhuizen of… Read more »
PIERRE, S.D.(WNAX)- The South Dakota Senate has joined the South Dakota House in adopting the conference committee report on House Bill 1022. That bill would help fund design of a new state health laboratory in Pierre. Senator Jean Hunhoff says appropriators are done with giving money to the project. The vote to adopt the conference… Read more »
PIERRE, S.D.(WNAX)- South Dakota legislators have reached agreements on a tax cut and spending priorities as they prepare to wrap up the main run of this year’s session. House Majority Leader Will Mortenson of Pierre says state sales taxes will drop by point three percent. Mortenson says state employees are included in the budget increase.… Read more »
PIERRE, S.D.(Press Release) – South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has announced that Brown County State’s Attorney Ernest Thompson has been hired as an assistant attorney general for his office. “Ernest Thompson brings valuable experience and a proven record as a criminal prosecutor,” said Attorney General Jackley. Thompson served 12 years in the U.S. Army, including… Read more »
ABERDEEN, S.D.(Press Release)- Due to the NSU/PC spring break schedule, there will be no open gyms March 11 through March 19. Regular open gyms will resume Monday, March 20 until they close for the season on Thursday, March 30. For more information, please contact the Aberdeen Parks, Recreation and Forestry Department at 626-7015.
PIERRE, S.D.(The Dakota Scout) — Legislative negotiators have a tax cut deal. A conference committee working since Tuesday to find compromise between competing tax cut proposals coming from the House and Senate have settled on legislation to temporarily roll back South Dakota’s general sales tax rate from 4.5 percent to 4.2 percent for four years.… Read more »
PIERRE, S.D.(HubCityRadio)- On Thursday, The South Dakota House passed SB16 dealing with the railline from Sisseton to Milbank. Representative Fred Deutsch of Florence talked about the bill. Representative Tamara St. John of Sisseton talks about how important the bill is for the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate tribe. Representative Joe Donnell of Sisseton talks about an elevator… Read more »
PIERRE, S.D.(WNAX)- This is the first term in the South Dakota legislature for District 18 Representative Julie Auch of Lesterville. She says it’s been eye opening. Auch says republicans in the House also have differences of opinion. Auch joined about thirty other first time Representatives and Senators this session.
PIERRE, S.D.(HubCityRadio.com) – The state reported 9 new COVID-related deaths, while active cases & hospitalizations decreased, according to figures released by the South Dakota Department of Health. The death total currently at 3,190. The state had 641 new cases and 776 recoveries, decreasing active infections to 473. Those hospitalized in connection with the virus is… Read more »
PIERRE, S.D.(WNAX)- A bill that would spend almost thirteen million dollars for a new state lab has been on a potholed road through the South Dakota legislature. Representative Chris Karr of Sioux Falls was a “No” vote in committee on the spending. Representative Tony Venhuizen of Sioux Falls says cost estimates are coming under control.… Read more »
PIERRE, S.D.(WNAX)- A bill hoghoused in the South Dakota Senate would have given home owners a four hundred twenty five dollar credit on their property tax bills. It was sent to a conference committee with the House. Majority Leader Will Mortenson of Pierre says the conference committee took care of it. Mortenson asked the House… Read more »
PIERRE, S.D.(WNAX)- In a session where fellow Republicans have rebuked her on several pieces of key legislation, Governor Kristi Noem chalked up a win Tuesday. On a 41 to 29 vote, the House failed to get the two-thirds majority necessary to override the Governor’s veto of HB 1109. The bill would have allowed business improvement… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C.(WNAX)- Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve, appeared before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Tuesday. Committee member, South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds said he believes Biden Administration policies have led to the current high rate of inflation. Rounds said Federal Reserve actions won’t directly address the energy production shortfall. Rounds… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C.(WNAX)- South Dakota Senator John Thune along with Virginia Senator Mark Warner introduced the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology (RESTRICT) Act. Thune says the bill is aimed at foreign technology threats, including Tik Tok. Thune says a more coherent strategy is needed. Thune says the threat from… Read more »
