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Budget Focus For Legislature

Budget Focus For Legislature

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While South Dakota legislators are thinking about next year’s budget, which has to be passed before the end of the current session, there are leftovers from last year.

Representative Jean Hunhoff of Yankton says there are some carryover dollars…

 

Members of District 18 held the first legislative coffee of the session on Saturday in Yankton.

Hunhoff, a member of the Appropriations Committee, says they have been looking over agencies, but there are not a lot of dollars available there…

 

Hunhoff says there are a number of fee increase requests they are dealing with…

 

The consensus was that roads, education and Medicaid will be the major issues this year.

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