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move, saying the bill is a hodgepodge of subject matters and South Dakota law requires legislative issues to be handled individually.
• Tension between Lust and Nelson dates back to last year's session, when Nelson and another lawmaker were kicked out of the caucus after accusing Lust and other House GOP leaders of ethics violations.
• The Building South Dakota bill now heads back to the Senate, where it likely will be referred to a negotiating committee that will try to work out differences between the House- and Senate-passed versions.
• South Dakota currently has no incentive plan because a previous program that refunded construction taxes for large industrial projects was allowed to expire Dec. 31. Voters in November rejected a replacement plan suggested by Gov. Dennis Daugaard.
• Supporters of the comprehensive measure say South Dakota often loses out to other states on large projects because of its upfront tax structure. The new plan would refund part or all of the state sales tax paid by projects of more than $20 million that would not have located in South Dakota without such an incentive.
• Contractors' excise tax collected on those projects would be placed in the Building South Dakota Fund so the state can reinvest in future projects. The new fund also would get a portion of unclaimed property the state receives from abandoned bank accounts.
• House Democratic Leader Bernie Hunhoff of Yankton called the plan a strong bipartisan compromise with more accountability and transparency.
• "Education, housing, rural development, all these things do tie together for economic development," Hunhoff said.
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