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SD Legislators Plowing Through Piles of Bills

SD Legislators Plowing Through Piles of Bills

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South Dakota legislators are working through a pile of policy bills to get to what could be dozens of spending bills.

Senator Jean Hunhoff, Co-Chair of the Joint Committee on Appropriations, says those spending bills will filter through various committees…..

Hunhoff says they will have to match the spending bills with updated revenue projections later this month….

Hunhoff says she expects the budget bill to be the last one done….

The main run of the session is scheduled to end on March 10th.

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