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by the House. The bill will become law if signed by the governor.
• The measure is designed to protect state revenue from the bank tax by taking into account changes in the way large banks provide services from locations in many states.
• The bill would calculate South Dakota's share of bank receipts based on where a customer is located, not where the bank activity takes place.
• Officials say the changes are expected to stabilize revenues at $8 million to $10 million a year. They say that without the changes, it could fall to about $4 million a year.
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SD Senate passes amusement ride regulations
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Legislature has given final approval to a measure that would further regulate amusement rides.
• The bill's sponsor, Sen. Al Novstrup of Aberdeen, says the bill would impose regulations similar to those in other states and is supported by industry trade groups. Novstrup is president of Thunder Road, a chain of family fun parks in the Dakotas.
• Mobile amusement rides, such as those that travel from state to state, already must have insurance. The bill would require those rides to have yearly certified inspections and daily inspections by operators. Rides fixed in one place also would have to be inspected daily.
• The measure was proposed by Rep. Steve Hickey of Sioux Falls after a 2013 carnival accident that left two teenage girls suspended upside down on a ride.
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South Dakota panel OKs bill to address meth
NORA HERTEL, Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota law enforcement might soon have a new tool to fight the production of methamphetamine.
• Faced with a growing problem as producers learn easier ways to make the illegal stimulant, the state's attorney general wants South Dakota to keep electronic records of the buyers of certain cold medicines that contain a key ingredient in meth.
• "We're doing well in the war on drugs with the exception of methamphetamine, which is why I'm sitting before you today," Attorney General Marty Jackley said Tuesday.
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