The last piece of the teacher pay plan went before South Dakota Senators Wednesday afternoon.

Governor Dennis Daugaard had requested a half cent sales tax increase to fund the sixty plus million dollars needed to move average teacher pay to forty eight thousand dollars.
That moved as a House bill. A couple of companion Senate bills that set restrictions on school funds, and teacher – student ratios were part of the package.

Senate Bill 131 was amended in the House, and Senator Billie Sutton of Burke moved to send the bill to a conference committee……

Senator Gary Cammack of Union Center says the bill should move to final passage…..

Senator Deb Soholt of Sioux Falls, a co-chair of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Education, says they need to wrap up the process…….

The final vote was 25 to 10. The bill, along with the other parts of the funding plan now move to the Governor.