The 2015 session of the South Dakota legislature has ended. Lawmakers had one final day on Monday to decide on three bills vetoed by Governor Dennis Daugaard. They sustained two of the, overturning one that dealt with municipal taxes on rural electric cooperatives.
During the main run of the session, a bill raising taxes and fees about eighty five million dollars for roads and bridges passed.

During the main run of the session, legislators passed eighty five million dollars in tax and fee hikes to pay for roads and bridges.
Representative Mike Stevens says he has not heard much about that since the bills were signed into law.

Stevens says he expects education funding to take up most of their attention in next years session.

The road funding bill had an emergency declaration attached to it, which means most of the tax and fee increases are effective tomorrow. (Wednesday).