A bill has been narrowly defeated that would have taken a proposed amendment to the November election that would require legislative approval of any vote initiated constitutional amendments.
The resolution was killed in House State Affairs Committee on 7-6 vote.
The measure was the idea of House speaker Mark Mickelson of Sioux Falls.
Representative David Lust of Rapid City spoke against the proposal. He called the measure a “bridge too far”.
At Mickelson’s request, the committee voted to table his plan that would have ended citizen’s ability to gather signatures to propose constitutional amendments.
(Brookings Radio)