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SD Legislators Fail to Add Money for Contract Testing & Tracing

SD Legislators Fail to Add Money for Contract Testing & Tracing

Representative Ryan Cwach Photo: WNAX


During Monday’s special session, democratic legislators attempted to amend the spending resolution to move more money to COVID-19 testing and tracing.

Representative Ryan Cwach of Yankton says the state is falling far short in overall testing…

Cwach says more testing would solve a lot of problems…

Cwach says more testing would help people be more responsible…SD

The amendment failed on a vote of thirteen to fifty-seven.
Cwach later voted against the overall spending bill.
Legislators approved a resolution allowing the Governor to spend almost six hundred million dollars in federal CARES Act funding.

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