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The Last Legislative Day

Last Legislative Day

It could be a late evening for state lawmakers as they hash out a few outstanding issued on the last legislative day.

Lawmakers have been going back and forth with the governor’s office on how to spend about a $13 million dollar surplus…

Up in the air is how much lawmakers will appropriate for a number of projects. These include a health center at the University of South Dakota, the Dakota Promise scholarship, whether to extend the crisis line 2-1-1 to 32 other counties, bridge repair funding and an industrial hemp program.

The tangled web of negotiations is being brought against one another.

House lawmakers are passing along an amended version of the hemp bill over to the Senate. The bill has one-time funding in place for the current fiscal year.

Ongoing funding for a hemp bill will get added to the general fund bill. Included with that is funding for extending the crisis line 2-1-1.

Once these pieces of the budget are put in place, it’s assumed appropriators will button up the rest of the current and next fiscal year budgets later this evening. Once that’s done, lawmakers will gavel out until March 30th, which is reserved for consideration for overriding any gubernatorial vetos.