Timeline to redraw legislative district boundaries in South Dakota will be squeezed by delayed census data
A state official warned the once-every-10 years committee about potential lawsuits that await the group if they seek to undercut minority representation. Written By: Christopher Vondracek | ×
Ag land taxation is one of the issues the South Dakota Legislature has dealt with this session. Photo taken Feb. 7, 2019, Pierre, S.D. (Forum News Service/Agweek/Mikkel Pates)
PIERRE, S.D. South Dakota lawmakers began the weighty process of redrawing the state s legislative district, with growing concern that the state s GOP majority has one of the artificially lopsided advantages in the country.
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Week 3 of the South Dakota State Legislature in Pierre is now in the books. Transgender issues, abortion, open fields, and marijuana all made the news this week. Here’s a look at a few of the lesser quotable lines found in our reporter notebook this week:
Good question. HB1076 aka the ‘transgender birth certificate’ bill got week 3 off with a bang early Monday morning. The bill appeared to be sailing through committee until State Medical Association lobbyist and former lawmaker Dean Krogman stood to testify. Krogman then unleashed on the committee and the bills prime sponsor, Florence Republican Fred Deutsch, for not having brought any health professionals into the discussion. Krogman said he, like most people in the state, was as, ‘pro-life as anyone’ but asked the committee, “How much more pro-life do we need to be?” HB1076 fa