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Legislators Working Through the Budget Process

Legislators Working Through the Budget Process

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When South Dakota lawmakers return to Pierre Tuesday they will be in day seventeen of the forty-day session.
Representative Jean Hunhoff of Yankton says the Appropriators are working through the budget process….

While official revenue reports are a few weeks off, Hunhoff says they have been getting projections from the Noem Administration…

Hunhoff, Vice Chair of the Appropriations Committee, says while agriculture lags, other sectors of the states economy are doing pretty well….

Hunhoff says they are still looking for performance measures from state agencies and departments.

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