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Senate passes three elections-related bills on campaign funds, ballot marking and petition reporting
Summary
The South Dakota Senate approved three bills affecting campaign finance reporting, ballot-marking requirements and publication of petition-signature targets; amendments removed a statutory section and narrowed an allowable pen color.
The South Dakota Senate passed three bills affecting elections and campaign rules and approved a set of consent-calendar measures during floor action.
Senators approved Senate Bill 11, a measure intended to limit amounts political committees may receive from inactive candidate campaign committees, by a roll-call vote of 30 yeas, 4 nays and 1 excused. Senator Roll, the bill’s floor sponsor, said the measure updates statute to define an "inactive candidate campaign" and to require those accounts to follow the same reporting rules as other political committees. "We're just saying you have to play by the same rules as everybody else that's operating in the political realm in South Dakota," Roll said during debate.
The chamber also passed Senate…
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