PIERRE — A bill to allow for construction of a new state health laboratory and consolidate state Health Department staff in the same location is approved by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee Wednesday. Interim state Health Department Secretary Joan Adam says the project would be funded 100-percent through the American Rescue Plan Act Capital Projects fund…
Adam says the current health lab has been outgrown…
The current health lab is also short on electrical plug-ins for new equipment needed for testing for Covid-19 and the building is overflowing with supplies and materials. Senator V-J Smith of Brookings supports the measure…
The estimated cost of the project is just under 70-million dollars. Construction would take around three years to complete. Senate Bill 58 was approved unanimously and referred to the Joint Committee on Appropriations.
