Lawmakers Begin Budget Work Next Week

Now that South Dakota legislators have the latest revenue projections, the nuts and bolts work of putting a budget together begins next week.

Representative Jean Hunhoff, Vice Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, says they will start on the fine details

Hunhoff says those motions will form the framework of the budget

Hunhoff says the final budget will have to wait until all bills that spend money see final action.

Legislators are back in Pierre on Tuesday for day twenty five of the thirty-eight-day session.

(WNAX)