The prayer was offered by Bishop David Zellmer, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance
led by House page Jessica Siedschlag.
Roll Call: All members present except Reps. McPherson, Rozum, and Soli who were
excused.
MR. SPEAKER:
The Committee on Legislative Procedure respectfully reports that the Chief Clerk of the
House has had under consideration the House 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.
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 Ninety-third
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 (42 cents per mile). Legislators not driving their personal vehicle home will not be
entitled to reimbursement unless they leased a vehicle or somehow incurred an expense,
equivalent to 42 cents per mile, in such travel.
(3) Legislators flying commercially will receive the equivalent of flight expenses as long
as it does not exceed 42 cents per mile.
(4) Legislators flying charter or in their own plane will be reimbursed for actual expenses
as long as it does not exceed 42 cents per mile.
(5) A maximum of ten trips will be considered for the 2018 Legislative Session, including
the trip for the final legislative day.
(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,
G. Mark Mickelson Brock L. Greenfield
Lee Qualm R. Blake Curd
Spencer Hawley Billie Sutton
House Committee Senate Committee
Your Joint-Select Committee appointed to make arrangements for legislative days respectfully reports that we recommend the days of the Ninety-third Legislative Session be January 9 through January 12, January 16 through January 19, January 22 through January 25,
January 30 through February 2, February 5 through February 8, February 12 through
February 15, February 20 through February 23, February 26 through March 1, March 5 through
March 9, and March 26.
Respectfully submitted, Respectfully submitted,
Larry Rhoden Brock L. Greenfield
Arch Beal R. Blake Curd
Susan Wismer Billie Sutton
House Committee Senate Committee
Also MR. SPEAKER:
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 orders 100 copies of the Senate and House bills and resolutions (each); and
40 copies of the Senate and House daily journals (each) for the Ninety-third Legislative Session.
The free distribution of sets of bills, resolutions, and daily journals shall be as follows:
Eight copies for the Governor's Office, thirteen copies for the Supreme Court, eleven
copies for the Legislative Research Council, four copies for the State Library Depository, three
copies for the Attorney General, two copies for the Bureau of Finance and Management, four
copies for the Secretary of State, two copies for the Department of Legislative Audit, one copy
for the Code Commission, one copy for the State Treasurer, one copy for the State Auditor, one
copy for the Commissioner of School and Public Lands, one copy for the Public Utilities
Commission, and press copies as needed. Accomplishment of this distribution may be satisfied,
in whole or in part, by obtaining electronic copies of these documents from the legislative
internet site.
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 Research Council at a charge of
$315 per set of bills and $85 per set of journals plus mailing charges, if applicable.
One copy of the official directory (red book) shall be distributed to each Senator and
Representative, four 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 at a cost of
$8 payable to the Legislative Research Council.
One free copy of the South Dakota Legislative Index shall be distributed to the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Attorney General and the Supreme Court; and four free copies to
the State Library Depository. Copies will be distributed to Senators and Representatives who
request a copy. Upon written request to the Legislative Documents Room before January 20,
2018, all other state and private entities may purchase the South Dakota Legislative Index at
a cost of $47 per copy.
The Documents Clerk shall upon written request furnish any individual, firm, corporation,
association, or other organization with a set of House and Senate bills for $315 per set and a set
of journals for $85 per set for the Ninety-third Legislative Session, plus mailing charges, if
applicable.
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 $40 registration fee to the Secretary of State; and upon payment of an additional $315 per
set of bills and $85 per set of journals plus mailing charges, if applicable, to the Legislative
Research Council, shall be entitled to one copy of all bills and resolutions or journals pursuant
to SDCL 2-12-3.
Bill status reports shall be available on the legislative internet site. Printed copies may be
sold to registered lobbyists for $220 payable to the Legislative Research Council which
receipted funds shall be used to pay the printing costs. If bill status is mailed, the additional cost
is $125 for first-class postage.
The Documents 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,
Lynne DiSanto Jim White
Isaac Latterell Al Novstrup
Dan Ahlers Troy Heinert
House Committee Senate Committee
Your Joint-Select Committee appointed relative to securing chaplains for the Ninety-third Legislative Session respectfully reports:
We have conferred with the Pierre/Ft. Pierre Ministerial Association and have arranged
for ministers to participate on a part-time basis under the direction of Reverend John
Armstrong, Oahe Presbyterian Church, as chief chaplain, to serve the Senate and House as
chaplains throughout the Ninety-third session of the Legislature. The chaplains are as
follows:
Respectfully submitted, Respectfully submitted,
Sean McPherson Ernie Otten
Bob Glanzer Brock Greenfield
Karen Soli Jason Frerichs
House Committee Senate Committee
Also MR. SPEAKER:
Your Joint-Select Committee appointed to make arrangements for a Memorial Service
for deceased former members of the South Dakota House of Representatives and Senate
respectfully reports that they recommend that the House of Representatives and Senate
recess and convene in the House Chamber at 3:00 p.m. on January 18, 2018, and that a Joint
Memorial Resolution be introduced in their memory by their colleagues in the House of
Representatives and Senate.
A short program will follow the introduction of the Memorial Resolution. At the
conclusion of the Memorial Service, the Joint Session will be dissolved.
The Memorial Resolution shall be printed in the House and Senate Journals.
Respectfully submitted, Respectfully submitted,
Mike Stevens Gary Cammack
Charles Turbiville Phil Jensen
Julie Bartling Jason Frerichs
Karen Soli Senate Committee
House Committee
I have the honor to inform your honorable body that the Senate has appointed Sens.
Greenfield, Curd, and Sutton as a committee of three on the part of the Senate to meet with a
like committee on the part of the House to arrange for a Joint Session of the two houses to
receive the message of the Governor.
I have the honor to inform your honorable body that the Senate has appointed Sens.
Greenfield, Curd, and Sutton as a committee of three on the part of the Senate to meet with a
like committee on the part of the House to notify the Governor that the Legislature is duly
organized and ready to meet in a Joint Session to receive any communications he may desire
to make.
Also MR. SPEAKER:
I have the honor to inform your honorable body that the Senate has appointed Sens.
Greenfield, Curd, and Frerichs as a committee of three on the part of the Senate to meet with
a like committee on the part of the House relative to the Joint Rules for the Ninety-third
Legislative Session.
Also MR. SPEAKER:
I have the honor to inform your honorable body that the Senate has appointed Sens.
Greenfield, Curd, and Sutton as a committee of three on the part of the Senate to meet with a
like committee on the part of the House to arrange for legislative days for the members,
officers, and employees of the Senate and House.
Also MR. SPEAKER:
I have the honor to inform your honorable body that the Senate has appointed Sens.
Greenfield, Curd, and Sutton as a committee of three on the part of the Senate to meet with a
like committee on the part of the House for the purpose of setting the compensation of the
elective and appointive officers and employees of the House and Senate for the Ninety-third
Legislative Session, pursuant to SDCL 2-5-8, with the full power to act and that such
compensation schedule be filed with the Director of the Legislative Research Council and
the State Auditor.
Also MR. SPEAKER:
I have the honor to inform your honorable body that the Senate has appointed Sens.
White, Novstrup, and Heinert as a committee of three on the part of the Senate to meet with
a like committee on the part of the House 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, Senate and House journals, and bills, and other legislative printing for
the two houses and the state offices, with the full power to act.
I have the honor to inform your honorable body that the Senate has appointed Sens.
Otten, Greenfield, and Frerichs as a committee of three on the part of the Senate to meet
with a like committee on the part of the House relative to securing chaplains for the Ninety-third Legislative Session.
Also MR. SPEAKER:
I have the honor to inform your honorable body that the Senate has appointed Sens.
Cammack, Jensen, and Frerichs as a committee of three on the part of the Senate to meet
with a committee of four on the part of the House for the purpose of arranging a memorial
recognition of deceased former members of the Senate and House.
Also MR. SPEAKER:
I have the honor to inform your honorable body that the Senate has appointed Sens.
Maher, Curd, and Sutton as a committee of three on the part of the Senate to meet with a
like committee on the part of the House for the purpose of inviting the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court to address a Joint Session on the State of the Judiciary and to make
arrangements therefor.
Also MR. SPEAKER:
I have the honor to inform your honorable body that the Senate has appointed Sens.
Maher, Curd, and Heinert as a committee of three on the part of the Senate to meet with a
like committee on the part of the House to make arrangements for a Joint Session to hear the
message from a Tribal Chairman on the State of the Tribes.
Also MR. SPEAKER:
I have the honor to inform your honorable body that the Senate has adopted the report
of the Joint-Select Committee relative to notifying the Governor that the Legislature is duly
organized and ready to meet in Joint Session to receive any communications he may desire
to make.
Also MR. SPEAKER:
I have the honor to inform your honorable body that the Senate has adopted the report
of the Joint-Select Committee relative to arranging for a Joint Session of the two houses to
receive the message of the Governor.
I have the honor to inform your honorable body that the Senate has adopted the report
of the Joint-Select Committee relative to arranging for a Joint Session to receive the State of
the Judiciary message of the Honorable David Gilbertson, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court.
Also MR SPEAKER:
I have the honor to inform your honorable body that the Senate has adopted the report
of the Joint-Select Committee relative to arranging for a Joint Session to receive the State of
the Tribes message from a Tribal Chairman.
Which motion prevailed.
Rep. Beal moved that the House do now adjourn, which motion prevailed and at
1:22 p.m. the House adjourned.
Pursuant to the report of the Joint-Select Committee, as found on page 15 of the House
Journal, the Senate convened with the House of Representatives in the House Chamber for
the purpose of receiving a message from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, David
Gilbertson. The President of the Senate, Matt Michels, presided.
The following prayer was delivered by Bishop David B. Zellmer, South Dakota Synod
of the ELCA, Sioux Falls, South Dakota:
Blessed are you O Lord, King of the Universe. We give thanks for the men and women who have and are serving and defending our country and the values of freedom and justice for all that we hold most dear. Help us to be mindful of their sacrifice and the hardships they and their families endured, so that we never take for granted the inalienable rights they have secured for us.
We pray for our President, Governor, Senators and Representatives that they may be
just in purpose, wise in counsel and unwavering in duty. In the administration of their
solemn responsibilities may they uphold the honor of our nation and state and secure the
protection of all your people.
In Your Holy Name we Pray. Amen.
The Secretary of the Senate, Kay Johnson, called the roll of the Senate and the
following members were present:
Bolin; Cammack; Cronin; Curd; Ewing; Frerichs; Greenfield, Brock; Haverly; Heinert;
Jensen, Phil; Kennedy; Killer; Klumb, Kolbeck; Langer; Maher; Monroe; Nelson; Nesiba;
Netherton; Novstrup, Al; Otten, Ernie; Partridge; Rusch; Soholt; Solano; Stalzer; Sutton;
Tapio; Tidemann; White; Wiik; Youngberg.
The Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives, Sandra J. Zinter, called the roll of the
House and the following members were present:
Ahlers; Anderson; Bartels; Barthel; Bartling; Beal; Bordeaux; Brunner; Campbell; Carson;
Chase; Clark; Conzet; Dennert; Diedrich; DiSanto; Duvall; Frye-Mueller; Glanzer;
Goodwin; Gosch; Greenfield, Lana; Haugaard; Hawley; Heinemann; Holmes; Howard;
Hunhoff; Jamison; Jensen, Kevin; Johns; Johnson; Kaiser; Karr; Kettwig; Lake; Latterell;
Lesmeister; Livermont; Lust; Marty; McCleerey; Mills; Otten, Herman; Peterson, Kent;
Peterson, Sue; Pischke; Qualm; Rasmussen; Reed; Rhoden; Ring; Rounds; Schaefer;
Schoenfish; Smith; Steinhauer; Stevens; Tulson; Turbiville; Wiese; Willadsen; Wismer;
York; Zikmund; Speaker Mickelson.
Sen. Curd moved that a committee of three on the part of the Senate and a committee of
five on the part of the House be appointed to escort the Honorable David Gilbertson, Chief
Justice of the state of South Dakota, to the rostrum.
Which motion prevailed and the President appointed as such committee Sens. Curd,
Maher, and Sutton on the part of the Senate and Reps. Qualm, Kent Peterson, Haugaard,
Hawley, and Bartling on the part of the House.
The Sergeant at Arms announced the arrival of Chief Justice David Gilbertson, who
was escorted to the rostrum.
The Lieutenant Governor, Matt Michels, introduced the Honorable David Gilbertson,
who delivered the State of the Judiciary Address.
Sen. Curd moved that the Joint Session do now dissolve.