The organization and management of the South Dakota legislature’s professional staff will be reviewed by a team from the National Conference of State Legislatures. One part of the study would look at designating positions for partisan staff who would work with democratic and republican caucuses. The Legislative Research Council staff now assigned is nonpartisan. House Minority Leader Bernie Hunhoff of Yankton isn’t interested…
The Executive Board of the legislature authorized spending up to twenty thousand dollars on the study. Hunhoff says the LRC system works well…
Hunhoff says the legislature could spend that money on many more important issues…
The report on staffing is due back in September.