PIERRE — The House Appropriations Committee has killed a bill that would have funded five mobile cleaning stations to go to battle against the zebra mussel. Senate Bill 200 was looking for 12-thousand 500-dollars to purchase the decontamination units. Representative Randy Gross says the nearly hour of testimony on the mussels’ impact was educational…
Representative Linda Duba moved Do Pass and finally got a second after having numerous Do Pass motions fail for lack of seconds earlier in the day…
That Do Pass motion was quickly substituted by Representative Taffy Howard…
The vote to effectively kill S-B 200 was seven-to-two.
