PIERRE, S.D. (SDBA) – State legislators return this morning for their 38th and final legislative day to consider the four remaining bills vetoed by Republican Gov. Kristi Noem.
Gov. Noem removed most of the intrigue from the one-day veto session last week by signing the $7.4 billion FY 2024 state budget and the four-year .3% decrease in the overall 4.5% state sales tax.
Earlier during the session, Gov. Noem said she would veto both because legislators failed to pass her 2022 campaign-promised elimination of the 4.5% sales tax on food.
Both the House and Senate go into session at 9 a.m. The House will consider two bills that originated in that chamber and the Senate another two bills that came from its chamber.
The vetoed bills are:
• SB 108–Allows students over the age of 18 to “sip and spit” alcoholic beverages they create in brewing, distilling, and wine-making classes.
• SB 129–Would enhance the penalty against people convicted of assaulting school employees.
• HB 1193–Amends provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code. The Governor says it restricts cyber-currency, thus restricting economic freedom.
• HB 1209–Revisions to industrial hemp increasing the allowable THC level.