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.
Senator Bernie Hunhoff of Yankton says he is getting a lot of questions about that.
Hunhoff says he hopes next year’s session can fix some of the issues in the bill.
An interim legislative study committee had recommended about one hundred million dollars, the Governor supported a fifty million dollar fix. Lawmakers settled in between those two.
