PIERRE, (KCCR) — The Executive Board of the South Dakota Legislature reviewed an issue memorandum this week on the use of emergency clauses attached to various pieces of proposed legislation. Of all the proposed bills in the 2023 legislative 67 had emergency clauses included. Code Counsel Justin Goetz says emergency clauses are supposed to fall under two areas…
Goetz says 21 other states use some manner of emergency clause to allow legislation to become law as soon as it’s signed by the Governor in stead of, in South Dakota’s case, July 1st…
Goetz says the emergency clause may not necessarily be appropriate for fast tracking new state programs…
If a Court finds an emergency clause enacted incorrectly, the bill can sill move forward…
Of the 67 bills that had emergency clauses in the last session 36 were House Bills with 32 from the Senate.
