Through the House and now the Senate, on to the governor’s desk goes a bill at improving energy costs for building projects. Members of the Senate Commerce and Energy committee initially passed HB 1032, which revises certain provisions regarding guaranteed energy savings contracts, on a 6-0 vote and the full Senate sent the bill on […]
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ASBSD invites school board members and administrators from member districts to our 2016 Legislative Day on Tuesday, February 16. ASBSD Legislative Day is a day of advocacy and action in support of public education and celebration of the service of our school board members as part of South Dakota School Board Recognition Week. School
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The debate about adding a leased residential property tax classification started on Thursday (1/27). “What we don’t have is a category for those people that live in a property, but don’t own it,” Rep. Don Haggar, the bill’s sponsor, testified. “(House Bill 1086) just creates the category.” House Taxation committee members expressed interest
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Legislative committee members approved a bill that could potentially subtract up to $400,000 from other revenue supplied to school districts on Thursday (1/28). On an 11-4 vote, members of the House Taxation committee passed House Bill 1097, which would exempt certain taxes and fees from the gross receipts tax on telecommunications services. South
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An amended version of a bill restricting access to bathrooms and locker rooms for transgender students, which could have unknown legal ramifications for public schools, passed the House. House Bill 1008, which separates bathrooms, locker rooms and shower rooms in public schools based on the biological sex of a student, passed the House State
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Legislation clarifying veterans’ preference language found favor from the House of Representatives. House State Affairs members unanimously passed an amended version of House Bill 1056, which revises certain provisions relating to the veterans’ preference in employment, on Monday (1/25), with members of the House doing the same on Wednesday (1/27). HB 1056’s sponsor, Rep. Fred
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The minor boundary change process took its first step towards change on Tuesday (1/26). Members of the Senate Education committee passed Senate Bill 5, which revises the process of school district boundary change, on a 5-0 vote. ASBSD supports the bill. “We believe it’s a good resolution for stabilizing district boundaries,” ASBSD Director
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Legislation requiring school safety plans saw overwhelming support from the education community. At Tuesday’s (1/26) Senate Education committee hearing for Senate Bill 63, which requires schools to implement school safety plans and conduct lockdown drills, representatives from ASBSD, SASD, SDEA and the state Department of Education testified in favor of the bill. SB 63
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School Administrators of South Dakota Executive Director Rob Monson and ASBSD Executive Director Wade Pogany recently sat down with Gov. Daugaard’s Chief of Staff Tony Venhuizen to discuss the proposed half cent increase to the state’s sales tax, the new funding formula and the accompanying education funding pieces of the plan. “We see a
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We NEED your district’s Good News stories With Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s recent proposal to put more than $80 million in total funding towards public education through a half cent increase to the sales tax, we need to share the stories that prove why our public school districts are great with our legislators and the
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