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A look at Referred Law 19, revising elections and election petitions

A look at Referred Law 19, revising elections and election petitions

As I continue to look at ballot questions in the 2016 South Dakota election it is time to look at the referred laws. Referred Law 19 is the first of two laws that had been passed during the 2015 legislative session and then referred to the voters via the petition process . Some opponents of RL 19 have called it the incumbent protection plaan. There really hasn’t been enough proponents of the…

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Why the Board of Elections needs to define voter and candidate definitions immediatly

Why the Board of Elections needs to define voter and candidate definitions immediatly

A few days ago I looked at the five bills prefiled for the South Dakota 2016 legislative session by the Board of Elections. One of these bills, HB 1033 (SoDakLiberty Posts), came with an emergency clause in order for the changes to be effective directly after being passed into law. Part of HB 1033 would undo a date set by SB 67 (SoDakLiberty Posts) during the 2015 legislative session, which must…

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Five Board of Elections bill prefiled for the 2016 legislative session

Five Board of Elections bill prefiled for the 2016 legislative session

The State Board of Elections has prefiled five bills for the South Dakota 2016 legislative session. This year I will be watching the Board of Elections bills closely, mostly because of the mess that SB 69 (SoDakLiberty Posts) became last session; of course that law will now go before the voters this fall. This post is a brief look at these five bills and some initial thoughts I may have about…

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Governor Daugaard signed five final bills for the SD 2015 legislative session

Rep Gosch on the SD House floor after SB 69 had been killed briefly. Photo by Ken Santema 3/10/15.

On Friday, March 20, Governor Daugaard signed 5 bills into law. These were five of the final eight bills he waited until today to publicly announce his actions. The other three bills he vetoed.

Posts on the previous bills signed into law during the SD 2015 SD legislative session can be found here, h…

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SD 2015 Legislature: Senate State Affairs committee bills on Jan 21

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On Wednesday, January 21st, at 10:00am the Senate State Affairs committee will hear public input on four bills. Last week the Senate State affairs committee met on Jan 16 to look at three bills. SB 23 (revise provisions of the SD art Museum) and SB 35 (repeal old code related to the Dept of Veteran Affairs) both passed. SB 67was deferred until the Jan 21 meeting…

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SD 2015 Legislature: Bills in the Senate State Affairs committee on Jan 16

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With the 2015 SD Legislative session in swing it is once again time to see what bills are hitting committees. Today, Jan 15, at 10 am the Senate State Affairs committee will be looking at three bills for the first time. Here are the three bills going before the committee and some comments about them.

SB 23– Revise certain provisions regarding the ownership and…

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