Taxation
Gov. Kristi Noem’s official budget proposal is coming this week. Last Thursday (1/17), Gov. Noem sent official request to the South Dakota Legislature’s House and Senate for a joint session of the chambers on Wednesday, January 23 beginning at 1 p.m. “I will be giving my budget address, which will outline a lot […]
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A bill resetting the membership of a special education oversight board and establishing it in state statute started its journey forward in the legislature on Thursday (1/17). Senate Education committee members unanimously passed Senate Bill 1, which establishes the Extraordinary Cost Oversight Board in state statute and amends membership. The bill emanated from
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Committee members wasted no time in acting on legislation in House Ed. In their first committee meeting of the 2019 legislative session, House Education committee members unanimously passed two education related bills. House Bill 1001, which requires the recalculation of the special education disability levels’ amount allocation to take place every two years,
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The holiday shopping season brought in the green to keep state revenue figures out of the red. Revenue collections in December came in slightly more than $10 million higher than what the legislature adopted for the month during last year’s legislative session. The December figures were a needed rebound over November’s numbers, which were
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The 2019 legislative session begins soon and the 94th legislative session features more than a few key days. This year’s session contains two more days than last year’s and kicks off with Gov. Kristi Noem’s first State of the State address on Tuesday, January 8. Gov. Noem also plans to hold an additional
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In his final budget address, Gov. Dennis Daugaard proposed schools receive a 2.3 percent increase in state aid for Fiscal Year 2020. The proposed increase in state aid meets the statutory requirement of schools receiving the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W) or 3 percent, whichever is less, as CPI-W came in at 2.3 percent for
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Now is the time to get your legislators in to your schools, at your board meetings or in any venue and ask them if they support the school funding expectation set forth in state law and in the state Constitution. “We’re talking about an expectation in state law for funding schools and you, as
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School board members descended on Pierre to don the role of Delegate and do due diligence in determining the legislative focus of ASBSD. “Delegate Assembly is the time and place to establish your state school board association’s legislative direction and share your district’s view on key legislative topics,” ASBSD President Tom Farrell, of Madison
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One-third of the way through the 2019 fiscal year and South Dakota’s revenue collection is ahead of schedule. Revenue collected through October – as reported by S.D. BFM – is nearly $3 million ahead of projections adopted by the South Dakota Legislature during legislative session this year. July and September collections were in the
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ASBSD happily welcomed Holly Nagel to the team in October. Nagel joined ASBSD as the Chief Financial Officer and Protective Trust Services Director on October 15, replacing Matt Flett, who joined the South Dakota Department of Education. “I am very excited to join the ASBSD organization,” Nagel said. “My experience with ASBSD
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