PIERRE, SD (KELO AM) South Dakota lawmakers have wrapped up the second week of the 2017 session.
Senate Pro-tem President Brock Greenfield of Clark says its been a slow start.
"We'll only be up to 68 bills on the Senate side that will have been dropped up till now, so we are off and running, seemingly a slower start than normal," said Greenfield, at the Republican legislative briefing in Pierre on Friday.
It's clear that the Legislature will again debate a sales tax increase. At the Democratic legislative briefing, Senate Minority Leader Billie Sutton of Burke announced that will introduce a bill to roll back the sales tax on food.
"If will be no tax increase, remove it on food and the sales tax on everything else goes up to mjeet the net cost," explained Sutton. He said that the rollback would help low income South Dakotans.
Lawmakers will be back to work in Pierre on Monday.