South Dakota House, Senate weigh differing COVID-19 protocols
The South Dakota Legislature on Wednesday released its list of COVID-19 safety protocols now under consideration. While the Senate would require masks, the House would only encourage their use. Written By: Christopher Vondracek | ×
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. A COVID-19 safety protocol to require masks for the South Dakota Senate, but not the House of Representatives, is being proposed by those chambers leaders for when lawmakers convene in Pierre for the 2021 legislative session next week.
A separate protocol encouraging, not mandating, persons on the House side to wear facial coverings is also being proposed, according to a statement on Wednesday, Jan. 6, from the South Dakota Legislative Research Council.
SD lawmakers face Petri dish session, now with COVID-19
South Dakota lawmakers call it Capitol crud, a nasty cough, sometimes shakes, or a fever fostered from 10 weeks of winter cooped up in a 110-plus-year-old Capitol with 105 members of South Dakota s citizen Legislature. But this year s session has a new, much deadlier bug that could be lurking the statehouse halls: COVID-19. Written By: Christopher Vondracek | ×
South Dakota s Capitol building. Matt Gade / Republic
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. Going to Pierre is a health risk in a normal year for South Dakota s legislators. The Legislature in its best time is a Petri dish of disease, Senate President Pro Tempore Lee Schoenbeck told Forum News Service in an interview on Tuesday.
South Dakota House, Senate weigh differing COVID-19 protocols
The South Dakota Legislature on Wednesday released its list of COVID-19 safety protocols now under consideration. While the Senate would require masks, the House would only encourage their use. Written By: Christopher Vondracek | ×
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. A COVID-19 safety protocol to require masks for the South Dakota Senate, but not the House of Representatives, is being proposed by those chambers leaders for when lawmakers convene in Pierre for the 2021 legislative session next week.
A separate protocol encouraging, not mandating, persons on the House side to wear facial coverings is also being proposed, according to a statement on Wednesday, Jan. 6, from the South Dakota Legislative Research Council.