PIERRE, (KCCR) — A bill proposed by District 24 Senator Jim Mehlhaff to substantially change South Dakota’s property tax system and the connected funding of education was killed Wednesday by the Senate Taxation Committee of the South Dakota Legislature. Senate Bill 99 would have disconnected the funding of education by way of increasing the state sales tax to six-point-five percent. Mehlhaff amended his bill to remove the sales tax on food…
Opposition outweighed support three-to-one from the State Bureau of Finance and Management, Farm Bureau and Retailer’s Association Senator Casey Crabtree moved to kill the bill…
Senator Amber Hulse appreciated Mehlhaff’s out-of-the-box thinking for the bill…
SB 99 was sent to the 41st legislative day, killing the bill, on a six-one vote.
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