Appropriators at work

Week two of the 2024 South Dakota Legislative session is underway.

The legislature’s joint appropriations committee is in the process of reviewing 37 agency budgets.

State Representative Lance Koth of Mitchell is a committee member. He says last week the group completed work on 13 agency budgets which he says are the easy ones. However this week….

 

The appropriations committee meets every day and sometimes into the evening as it sorts through budget requests while trying to assemble the annual fiscal spending bill.