The Prefiles are here for 2007
The prefiled bills are starting to arrive in the hopper. And a couple of them have very political implications.
What else.... Oh yes, there's also these...
Go check out the full list here, and see a few other measures affecting the political spectrum.
HB 1004 revises and amends sections of the law on state vehicle use to just apply to state airplanes.
Senate Bill 3 mandates that constitutional amendments and referred measures have to have petition circulators who are county residents of the county they are circulating petitions in.
What else.... Oh yes, there's also these...
| Bill | Title |
|---|---|
| SJR 1 | To propose a constitutional amendment to revise certain provisions regarding the legislative process. |
| SJR 2 | To propose a constitutional amendment to require certain meetings of the Legislature to be open to the public. |
| SJR 3 | To propose a constitutional amendment to repeal certain voided provisions regarding term limits for United States senators and representatives. |
| SJR 4 | To propose a constitutional amendment to revise certain provisions regarding private and special laws. |
| SJR 5 | To propose a constitutional amendment regarding certain restrictions on legislators and to allow legislators to participate in certain state contracts. |
| SJR 6 | To propose a constitutional amendment regarding restrictions on legislators. |
| SJR 7 | To propose a constitutional amendment regarding legislative term limits. |
| SJR 8 | To propose a constitutional amendment to reduce the minimum age to be a legislator. |
| SJR 9 | To propose a constitutional amendment to provide for forty-day legislative sessions. |
| SJR 10 | To propose a constitutional amendment to provide for single-member house districts in the Legislature. |
| SJR 11 | To propose a constitutional amendment to revise certain provisions regarding initiatives and referendums. |
Go check out the full list here, and see a few other measures affecting the political spectrum.
Comments
Just think, at the next election the democrats can brag about how they stopped the Governor from using the State aircraft! Then the democrats can brag that they made the Republicans spend precious legislative time introducing a bill so that our good dedicated employees aren’t treated like criminals for buying a cup of coffee! Oh yes, isn’t that something to be really proud of! But I guess that’s probably better than nothing for the liberals to brag about when they haven’t accomplished anything else for years!
Yes, the people of South Dakota voted. But this whole mess was brought about by the liberal democrats and the argusliar (the official news outlet for the liberal democrats) and their propaganda of lies.
Governor Rounds, if the only thing these liberal democrats can find wrong with you is the use of the State airplane, your future as U.S. Senator is assured!
This looks like something somebody is trying to slide in. Way too much potential for abuse. Even the appearance of sweetheart deals makes average citizens even more distrusting of government.
Bad, bad policy.
If you had dusted off your brain and looked at either the prior law, the initiative, or the new bill 1004, you would notice: 1)the criminal penalties were in the old law; the initiative didn't make any change in the criminal penalty - just added a civil option for the AG INSTEAD of charging a crime; and 3) the new bill doesn't remove any criminal penalties either contrary to what you claim.
If Rounds and Long start prosecuting state employees instead of using the new civil penalty - blame those Republicans. The voters of SD gave them a non-criminal option that they did not previosly have.
And VJ, are you REALLY concerned about "precious legislative time" or are those crocodile tears? If you want to conserve time, tell your Republicans to stop wasting it on multiple abortion bills that the public doesn't want and the courts won't uphold.
I sure wish there were loads of farmers and teachers in the legislature.
Instead we are stuck with a bunch of urban dwellers who have no idea of the true importance of agriculture and the rural sector to SD!