Legislators may get a chance this week to vote on a pay raise proposal. A move toward a constitutional amendment on the issue was killed. One proposal would pay legislators one fifth of the state median income, or about ten thousand dollars a year. Legislators now get about six thousand dollars.

Senator Craig Kennedy of Yankton says they should take care of state employees before they talk about their own pay……

Kennedy says state employees have not had a raise for several years…..

The legislative pay raise bill may be one of the final bills to be considered during this last full week of the 2018 session.