Meat liberation, crypto & weather anomalies: Here's what's on South Dakota lawmakers' wishlists

State legislators push for dozens of summer studies, but few will advance

Ambitious lawmakers have presented their legislative leaders at the South Dakota Capitol with a supply-and-demand challenge.

The Executive Board (E-Board) of the state Legislature will sift through more than two dozen requests from senators and representatives on Monday to spend the summer studying policy topics such as geoengineering, weather abnormalities, state investments in cryptocurrency, and meat production regulations.

But because the 30 requests submitted to the E-Board—made up of the Legislature’s highest-ranking members—do not include two major task forces on property tax relief and a new prison already established by state lawmakers and Gov. Larry Rhoden, respectively, few will make the cut.

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