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Utilities, Constitutional questions and more | Today's Stories | Jan. 27

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On today's update...

One bill could set a higher bar to overcome for landowners who take electric utility companies to court for wildfire damages. It protects utility companies that establish a wildfire mitigation plan.

Governor Larry Rhoden is asking the state Supreme Court for an opinion regarding the Lieutenant Governor’s authority breaking a tie vote in the Senate.

With no reconsideration vote in the House, a judicial system-supported bill is dead. It would have created a pre-trial supervision program in Pennington County.

And more...

Jackson Dircks is a Freeburg, Illinois, native. He received a degree from Augustana University in English and Journalism. He started at SDPB as an intern before transitioning to a politics, business and everything in-between reporter based in Sioux Falls.

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