The Committee on Legislative Procedure respectfully reports that the Secretary of the
Senate has had under consideration the Senate Journal of the first day.
All errors, typographical or otherwise, are duly marked in the temporary journal for
correction.
And we hereby move the adoption of the report.
Leigslative Aides -- Daniel Diez and Phillip Ringstmeyer
Which were subscribed to and filed in the office of the Secretary of State.
Your Joint-Select Committee appointed to make arrangements for legislative days
respectfully reports that we recommend the days of the Seventy-sixth Legislative Session be
January 9 through January 12, January 16 through January 19, January 22 through January 26,
January 29 through February 2, February 5 through February 9, February 12 through February
16, February 20 through February 24, February 26 through March 3, and March 21.
Respectfully submitted, Respectfully submitted,
Jay Duenwald Arnold Brown
Mike Jaspers Barbara Everist
Sam Nachtigal Garry Moore
House Committee Senate Committee
Sen. Everist moved that the report of the Joint-Select Committee relative to making
arrangements for legislative days for the Seventy-sixth Legislative Session be adopted.
Which motion prevailed and the report was adopted.
Your Joint-Select Committee appointed for the purpose of fixing the compensation of the
elective and appointive officers and employees of the House and Senate for the Seventy-sixth
Legislative Session, pursuant to SDCL 2-5-8, respectfully reports that a salary schedule for the
elective and appointive officers and employees has been developed and filed with the Director
of the Legislative Research Council and the State Auditor.
In regard to the system for payment of travel expenses to legislators we respectfully report
that:
(1) A form listing each weekend during session will be delivered to legislators. Legislators
will be asked to list their travel on that single sheet which would be signed and turned in at
the close of session. Also, pursuant to statute, a voucher must also be signed by each
legislator requesting travel reimbursement.
(2) Legislators driving their own car home for a weekend will receive mileage paid at state
rates (29 cents per mile). Legislators not driving home will not be entitled to reimbursement
unless they leased a vehicle or somehow incurred an expense, equivalent to 29 cents per
mile, in such travel.
(3) Legislators flying commercially will receive the equivalent of flight expenses as long
as it does not exceed 29 cents per mile.
(6) Pursuant to constitutional provisions, legislators will be paid for their initial trip to Pierre
and their final trip home at the rate of 5 cents per mile.
Respectfully submitted, Respectfully submitted,
Also MADAM PRESIDENT:
(4) Legislators flying charter or in their own plane will be reimbursed for actual expenses
as long as it does not exceed 29 cents per mile.
(5) A maximum of nine trips will be considered for the 2001 Legislative Session, including
the trip for the final legislative day.
Scott Eccarius Arnold Brown
Bill Peterson Barbara Everist
Mel Olson Jim Hutmacher
House Committee Senate Committee
Your Joint-Select Committee appointed for the purpose of conferring with the Director of
the Legislative Research Council in regard to making arrangements for the distribution of the
official directory, House and Senate journals and bills, and other legislative printing for the two
houses and the state offices with the full power to act respectfully reports that:
The Legislature order 450 copies of the Senate and House bills and resolutions (each); and
450 copies of the Senate and House daily journals (each) for the Seventy-sixth Legislative
Session.
The free distribution of sets of bills, resolutions, and daily journals shall be as follows:
State's Attorneys and County Auditors shall receive free copies of bills and journals if they
pay mailing charges at a rate of $50 per set (bills or journals) for first-class mailing.
Distribution of bills and journals to state officials, boards, commissions, and institutions
will be made upon request in writing to the Legislative Documents Room at a charge of $50 per
set plus mailing charges if applicable.
One copy of the official directory (red book) shall be distributed to each Senator and
Representative, thirteen copies to the State Library, three copies to the Secretary of State and
a copy shall also be made available to state departments and the press upon request to the
Director of the Legislative Research Council. The public may obtain a copy for a fee of $5
payable to the Legislative Documents Room.
One free copy of the South Dakota Legislative Index shall be distributed to the Governor,
the Attorney General and the Supreme Court; thirteen free copies to the State Library
Depository; and one free copy to Senators and Representatives. Upon written request to the
Legislative Documents Room before January 31, 2001, all other state and private entities may
purchase the South Dakota Legislative Index at a cost of $25 per copy.
The Chief Mailing Clerk shall upon written request furnish any individual, firm,
corporation, association, or other organization with a set of House and Senate bills and a set of
journals for the Seventy-sixth Legislative Session, for the sum of $50 per set for first-class
mailing.
Legislators may have two copies of all bills and resolutions and two copies of the daily
journals distributed or mailed to constituents within the legislator's own district if constituents
or legislators pay mailing charges of $50 per set for first-class mailing.
Registered lobbyists shall be entitled to one copy of the official directory upon payment of
the $25 registration fee to the Secretary of State; and upon payment of an additional $50 per set
to the Legislative Documents Room, shall be entitled to one copy of all bills and resolutions or
journals pursuant to SDCL 2-12-3.
Bill status reports will be printed and sold to state agencies at cost and to registered
lobbyists for $200 payable to the Legislative Documents Room which receipted funds shall be
used to pay the printing costs. If bill status is mailed, the cost is $125 for first-class postage.
A free daily copy of the bill status report shall be distributed as follows:
The Chief Mailing Clerk shall at the end of the session file a report with the Director of the
Legislative Research Council of all money paid for the purchase of bills and journals and show
proof of having deposited such money with the State Treasurer. Such funds shall be used to
offset the costs of postage and printing of bills and journals.
Respectfully submitted, Respectfully submitted,
Kent Juhnke Dick Hainje
J.P. Duniphan Dennis Daugaard
Sam Nachtigal Paul Symens
House Committee Senate Committee
SB 66
Introduced by:
Senators Bogue, Brosz, Drake, Everist, and Putnam and
Representatives Klaudt, Brown (Jarvis), Napoli, and Pummel
FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to
make an appropriation to reimburse the counties in
Districts 28A and 28B associated with a special primary election conducted on September 12,
2000, and to declare an emergency.
Was read the first time and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Sen. de Hueck moved that the Senate do now adjourn, which motion prevailed and at
2:18 p.m. the Senate adjourned.