The caps on capital outlay appear as though they’ll remain in place for another year. House members voted 33-35 on House Bill 1139, which repeals the $2,800 cap on the Capital Outlay fund and permits a school district to levy up to $3 per $1,000 of valuation, annually, on Tuesday (2-19), and a vote …
Revenue projections for the upcoming fiscal year’s budget were higher than expected, but the figures adopted were only slightly more than what was proposed. Members of the Joint Appropriations committee approved revenue projections for the Fiscal Year 2020 budget totaling $1.701 billion, which is an increase above what was proposed by Gov. Kristi Noem …
A mechanism clearing up confusion in statute related sales tax and remote sellers revenue reached the House recently. Senators passed Senate Bill 86, which adjusts the Partridge Amendment and permits review of remote seller tax revenue before lowering sales tax, on a 28-6 vote. Senate Taxation passed the bill out of committee previously on …
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A proposal calling for the return of two-year averaging passed committee. On an 8-5 vote, House Bill 1127, which includes two-year averaging in the fall enrollment calculation for state aid, passed the House Education committee. Two-year averaging was removed from the fall enrollment count in 2016 as part of the Blue Ribbon Task …
Other revenue equalization entered the legislative fray. House Bill 1109, which repeals other revenue equalization, passed the House Education committee on a 10-5 vote. Equalization of other revenue dollars collected by school districts from six different tax areas came in 2016 as part of the Blue Ribbon Task Force package that increased in …
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Advocating on behalf of our public school system is an important job and ASBSD’s Legislative Action Network (LAN) steps up to take on that task. With the 2019 legislative session having begun, we need LAN members to be read to communicate to legislators the positions of ASBSD and their local board on legislative issues relating to public …
Gov. Kristi Noem came up with proposed funding for state aid above what’s required by law in the first budget address of her tenure. Gov. Noem’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2020 included an increase to state aid of 2.5 percent, which is 0.2 percent higher than what’s required in state statute, as inflation came …
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Legislative committee members brought down a bill that could have put schools in line to face litigation. On a 5-2 vote, the Senate Education committee defeated Senate Bill 49, which voided the SDHSAA policy on transgender student participation and requires student gender be determined by what is stated on the student’s birth certificate. …
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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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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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