An Act to limit the manner in which legislation may be introduced.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:
Section 1. That 2-7-6.1 be AMENDED:
2-7-6.1. No bill or joint resolution may be introduced in either house of the Legislature by any committee thereof, except:
(1) A bill or a joint resolution introduced by any standing committee of either house;
(2) A bill or joint resolution referred to the Legislature from an interim committee of the State Legislative Research Council; or
(3) A bill or joint resolution
introduced at the request of the interim Rules Review Committee, the
interim Government Operations and Audit Committee, the interim
Retirement Laws Committee, the interim Joint Bonding Review
Committee, and the interim State-Tribal Relations Committee by one or
more committee members upon majority vote of the interim committee;
or
(4) A
bill or joint resolution introduced at the request of the Governor,
an executive agency or of the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
The
committee shall obtain a written request for such introduction from
either the council, the Governor, department head of an executive
agency, a constitutional officer or board, or the chief justice and
shall retain such request in its file. Committee
bills introduced on behalf of a
department head of an executive agency, a constitutional officer or
boarda
committee listed in subdivisions (2) or (3)
may be introduced by the chairman without a vote of the committee for
purposes of prefiling. Nothing in this section prohibits one or more
legislators from introduction of a bill or a joint resolution.