Committee Agenda

Committee:    Senate State Affairs
Room:    412
Date:    Monday, February 24, 2003
Time:    7:45 AM



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         HB 1026*     establish the regents scholarship program.
             The Committee on State Affairs at the request of the Board of Regents

         HB 1104*     impose an excise tax on the gross receipts of personal communications system, wireless, and cellular telecommunications companies.
             Representatives Peterson (Bill), Adelstein, Bartling, Begalka, Burg, Frost, Hanson, Juhnke, Lange, Madsen, Miles, Pederson (Gordon), Sebert, Sigdestad, Teupel, and Thompson and Senators McCracken, Apa, de Hueck, Dennert, Duxbury, Jaspers, and Symens

         HJR 1003     Proposing and submitting to the electors at the next general election an amendment to Article V, section 7 of the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, providing for the merit selection of circuit court judges.
             Representatives Michels, Cradduck, Cutler, Engels, Frost, Garnos, Gillespie, Hanson, Hargens, Hennies, Hunhoff, Juhnke, Kroger, Lange, LaRue, Madsen, McCaulley, McCoy, Murschel, Nesselhuf, O'Brien, Olson (Mel), Pederson (Gordon), Peterson (Bill), Peterson (Jim), Rhoden, Rounds, Sebert, Solum, Teupel, Van Norman, and Wick and Senators Bogue, Abdallah, Albers, Brown, de Hueck, Dempster, Diedrich (Larry), Duniphan, Duxbury, Earley, Jaspers, Knudson, Koetzle, Kooistra, McCracken, Moore, Olson (Ed), Reedy, Sutton (Dan), Symens, and Vitter

NOTE: The above bills will be taken up in this order for a hearing on the date noted. If circumstances do not permit a hearing on this date then a hearing will be held at a future meeting of the committee to be determined by the chair. Action on a bill may come at any time after it has had a hearing.

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ERIC H. BOGUE, Chair