Committee: Senate Judiciary
MOTION:
TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF last meeting
Moved by:
Senator Flowers
Second by:
Senator Daugaard
Action:
Prevailed by voice vote.
SB 63:
clarify that the locality in which a person is apprehended for underage
possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages has jurisdiction over the offense.
MOTION:
DO PASS SB 63
Moved by:
Senator Moore
Second by:
Senator Flowers
Action:
Prevailed by roll call vote.
(6-0-1-0)
Voting yes:
Dunn (Rebecca), Flowers, Moore, Munson (David), Daugaard, Whiting
Excused:
Everist
SB 175:
establish the Division of Antitrust Enforcement within the Office of the
Attorney General, to provide for investigation and enforcement, and to amend
investigation confidentiality requirements to allow state and federal officials
access.
Presented by:
Senator Hutmacher
Proponents:
Phil Cyre, South Dakota Farmers Union
Attorney General Mark Barnett
MOTION:
AMEND SB 175
"
Section 1. The Office of the Attorney General may cooperate with any federal or state
investigation of potential antitrust violations and unfair business practices. However, the Office of
the Attorney General may not initiate any antitrust investigation or enforcement action unless the
attorney general determines that the Legislature has specifically authorized such investigation or
enforcement action or has appropriated sufficient moneys and employees to accomplish such
purposes.
"
"
Section 5. Three million dollars ($3,000,000) of general funds, or the existing portion thereof,
of personal services budgeted in Chapter 19 of the 1999 South Dakota Session Laws, not expended
by June 30, 2000, shall be transferred and is hereby appropriated to the Office of the Attorney
General for the staffing and operations of the Division of Antitrust Enforcement through the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 2000. The division is authorized ten full time equivalent positions.
"
Ryan Olson