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Budget Sets the Tone for the 2021 Session

Budget Sets the Tone for the 2021 Session

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Governor Kristi Noem released her budget plan earlier this month to legislators and now they will use most of the 2021 session to work through it and make their own changes.

Representative Kent Peterson of Salem, who will be House Majority Leader in the new session, says the budget plan gives them an outline…

Peterson says they will also have other issues to deal with….

With up to two hundred million dollars in one time money available next year, Peterson expects numerous ideas..

Peterson will work with a majority of 62 republicans to eight democrats in next month’s session.

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