PIERRE, (KCCR) — Landowners frustrated with the passage of the so-called Landowner’s Bill of Rights or Senate Bill 201 gathered in the Rotunda of the State Capitol on the final day of the 2024 legislative session to start the process to challenge the measure. Jim Eschenbaum is a Hand County Commissioner who led the rally. He says the bill puts too much authority with the Public Utilities Commission…
Other than Eschenbaum, lawmakers were the only ones to speak at the rally. Representative Liz May says the impacts all South Dakotans….
Representative Marty Overwig encouraged the 70 or so lawnowners in attendance to fight hard against 201…
Following the rally, Tonchi Weaver with South Dakota Citizens for Liberty presented a tutorial on the appropriate way to collect petition signatures to try and refer S-B 201 to a vote in November.
