SJR 1 - Authorization of Legal Gaming due to Gaming in Bordering States - South Dakota Key Vote
Jean Hunhoff voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation-Joint Resolution.
Timeline
- Referred to Committee
- Feb. 11, 2009
- Senate Joint Resolution Passed
- Feb. 9, 2009
- Introduced
- Jan. 29, 2009
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Title: Authorization of Legal Gaming due to Gaming in Bordering States
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a joint resolution that submits a constitutional amendment to the voters to allow the Legislature to authorize gaming for the purpose of preventing or curtailing a "serious impediment" to the economic prosperity or social well-being of the state's citizenry that is posed by legal gaming in a bordering state.
Highlights:
-Prohibits the Legislature from authorizing gaming pursuant to this resolution unless the Governor has declared in writing that a relevant threat posed by gaming in a bordering state exists (Sec. 2).
Title: Authorization of Legal Gaming due to Gaming in Bordering States
- Gene G. Abdallah (SD - R) (Out Of Office)
- Richard A. Engels (SD - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mitch Fargen (SD - D) (Out Of Office)
- Marc S. Feinstein (SD - D) (Out Of Office)
- Gary D. Hanson (SD - D) (Out Of Office)
- Scott N. Heidepriem (SD - D) (Out Of Office)
- Bernie P. Hunhoff (SD - D) (Out Of Office)
- Eldon Eugene Nygaard (SD - D) (Out Of Office)
- Martha Vanderlinde (SD - D) (Out Of Office)
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NOTE: AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION REQUIRES MAJORITY APPROVAL IN EACH CHAMBER FOR PASSAGE. AN AMENDMENT MAY ALSO BE PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE PETITION. IT MUST THEN BE APPROVED BY A MAJORITY OF CITIZENS VOTING IN THE NEXT ELECTION TO BECOME ENACTED.