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abandoned bank accounts.
• House Democratic Leader Bernie Hunhoff said the bill tackles economic development with a lot more transparency, vetting and accountability, and it also helps communities build the infrastructure needed to encourage development.
• The plan also incorporates a strong educational element, working with the state's technical centers on training and helping K-12 schools bear the cost of English language training when a project draws workers from other cultures.
• Hunhoff said some of these programs would otherwise not be considered by legislators if they weren't packaged in this bill.
• "It's going to trigger really good things," he said.
• Thirty percent of the Building South Dakota Fund would be dedicated to workforce education. Of the remaining money, 25 percent would go to the South Dakota Housing Opportunity Fund, 25 percent to infrastructure and transportation, 15 percent to local development efforts, 5 percent to the state's REDI fund.
• The bill received support from nearly two dozen people and no opposition in committee testimony Monday.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota House panel has shot down a measure aimed at expressing the Legislature's belief that the U.S. Constitution prevents the federal government from restricting gun ownership.
• The House State Affairs Committee voted 8-4 Monday to defeat the Senate bill. Republican Sen. Larry Rhoden of Union Center was the measure's main sponsor.
• Committee chairman David Lust of Rapid City says the bill is "clearly resolution material" and a state statute is not the place to make a statement.
• Attorney General Marty Jackley urged support of the bill and a proposed amendment that would have directed him to be vigilant and proactive in protecting the state's Second Amendment rights.
• Lust says the amendment could have set the attorney general's office up for lawsuits.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Legislature's budget-writing committee has delayed a decision on how much revenue to expect for the rest of the current year and the budget year that begins July 1.

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