February10

2023 ASBSD Billtracker Update: Juvenile Justice reforms & studies advancing

Legislative pieces related to juvenile justice continue to make their way through the 2023 legislative session with multiple proposals being tracked by ASBSD on our Billtracker page.   You can read about the taxation bills & revenue here, the school voucher bills here, the bills that are moving on here and the bills that have

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February09

2023 ASBSD Billtracker Update: Bills that move on…

Fifty pieces of legislation being tracked by ASBSD on our Billtracker page remain in the process for the 2023 legislative session.   You can read about the taxation bills & revenue here, the school voucher bills here, the juvenile justice bills here and the bills that have been defeated here.   Here is a breakdown

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February08

2023 ASBSD Billtracker Update:…Bills that are gone

Nearly one-third of the pieces of legislation being tracked by ASBSD on our Billtracker page have been ousted from the process for the 2023 legislative session.   You can read about the taxation bills & revenue here, the school voucher bills here, the juvenile justice bills here and the bills that are moving on here.

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January30

2023 ASBSD Billtracker Update: Week Three

There’s three weeks gone in this year’s legislative session and the deadline to submit legislation comes this coming Thursday (2/2) so we’ll see what will join the 58-pieces of legislation currently being tracked on ASBSD’s Billtracker.   Learn how ASBSD Billtracker works here.   More than half of the 58 legislative proposals have ASBSD taking

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January30

One more LAN Update webinar coming up

South Dakota’s public education system needs supportive voices. Many voices.   Our advocacy efforts must be united, informed and ready as the 2023 legislative session is likely to bring legislation with potentially long-reaching harmful effects to public schools, especially to funding.   “Vouchers, tax cuts, uncertain state aid increases, and that’s just the funding side,”

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January29

First grocery tax cut bill heads to House Approps

A bill gutting the tax on groceries moved from one legislative committee to another.   On a 12-1 vote, the House Taxation committee sent House Bill 1075, which repeals the sales tax on groceries, to the House Appropriations committee for review and vote.   S.D. Bureau of Finance & Management Commissioner Jim Terwilliger said the bill

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January27

Two juvenile justice proposals have legis. comm. hearings

Two juvenile justice proposals saw legislative action recently.   Senate Bill 3, which requires law enforcement to report juvenile offenses to school officials , passed the Senate Education committee on a 4-2 vote.   The bill emerged from the interim committee studying Juvenile Justice and requires a local law enforcement agency to inform officials when a juvenile

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January26

BOE meeting dates, Social Studies standards revised

The state Board of Education has revised its meeting schedule for 2023 and the Department of Education has also made revisions to a portion of the proposed social studies standards.   2023 meeting dates for the S.D. Board of Education Standards include Friday, February 10 in Rapid City, Monday, May 22 in Pierre, Monday, September

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January23

State aid increase bill moved to Approps, funding issues discussed

Five percent found six votes to advance it in the appropriations process.   Senate Bill 24, which provides the 5 percent increase in state aid and revises the property tax levies for school districts, was referred to the Joint Appropriations committee on a 6-0 vote by the Senate Education committee last week (1/19).   ASBSD is

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January22

2023 ASBSD Billtracker Update: Week Two

After the second week of the 2023 legislative session, the ASBSD Billtracker is up to 22-pieces of legislation being tracked.   Learn how ASBSD Billtracker works here.   Of those 22 legislative proposals on the list, there’s seven we’re supporting, six being opposed and nine being monitored.  Below is a breakdown of key bills ASBSD is

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