State Legislative Bill Watch
Basic Session Statistics Week 2:
Senate Bills introduced: 56
House Bills introduced: Â 56
Senate Concurrent Resolutions introduced: 5
House Concurrent Resolutions introduced: 1
Senate Resolutions introduced: 0
House Resolutions introduced:...
2019 State Legislative Cracker Barrels and Legislative Coffees
State Legislative Cracker Barrels and Legislative Coffees are being held around the state. SDAHO members are encouraged to meet with state legislators. Â These events...
State Legislative Bill Watch
Basic Session Statistics Week 1:
Senate Bills introduced: 40
House Bills introduced: Â 44
Senate Concurrent Resolutions introduced: 3
House Concurrent Resolutions introduced: 0
Senate Resolutions introduced: 0
House Resolutions introduced:...
Governor Noem State of the State Summary
The 40-day legislative session began with Governor Noem’s State of the State address on Tuesday January 8. Governor Noem plans to deliver a special...
December 2018 South Dakota Economic and Revenue Report
SD Bureau of Finance and Management released the Economic and Revenue Update for December 2018.
Overall highlights, include ongoing state general fund collections for FY...
2019 State Legislative update
Even though there are still two weeks before the start of the 2019 Legislative Session, there are a number of prefiled bills. Subject matter...
Big Things Happening with Health Care, Workforce & Licensure
In 2017, the US Department of Labor announced a grant award of $7.5 million to the National Conference of State Legislature (NCSL), the National...
Mental health services draft legislation now available
The Access to Mental Health Task Force met Dec 3 and discussed three pieces of draft legislation. The drafts were uploaded to the South...
Children’s health insurance: National reports vs. South Dakota reports
Georgetown University Health Policy Institute released a report last month on the nation’s progress on children’s health and access to health insurance.  The report...
SD Opioid Abuse Advisory Committee meets
The South Dakota Opioid Abuse Advisory Committee met Dec. 5. Several opioid grant funding updates were provided, including grants which the Department of Health...