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SD board repeals quarantine rules on baby calves
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Animal Industry Board has voted to repeal a nearly 40-year-old rule requiring quarantine for baby calves entering the state without their mothers.
• The ruled was proposed at the board's annual meeting Tuesday by State Veterinarian Dustin Oedekoven.
• The state previously required 60 days of separation for young calves who came to South Dakota without their mothers.
• The board also repealed a rule from April 2013 that required cows from Idaho that were older than 18 months be tested for brucellosis before coming to South Dakota.
• Oedekoven briefed the board on the status of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea in the state. There are 32 infected herds in the state.
• Federal dollars are now available for newly infected herds to manage the virus and research vaccines.
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House votes to extend moratorium on Internet taxes
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted Tuesday to make permanent a moratorium that prevents state and local governments from taxing access to the Internet.
• Under current law, the moratorium expires Nov. 1, exposing Internet users to the same kind of connection fees that often show up on telephone bills.
• "This legislation prevents a surprise tax hike on Americans' critical services this fall," said Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. "It also maintains unfettered access to one of the most unique gateways to knowledge and engine of self-improvement in all of human history."
• The bill is backed by NetChoice, a trade association of online businesses and consumers.
• The moratorium was first enacted in 1998. State and local governments that already had Internet taxes were allowed to keep them under the current moratorium.
• But under the bill passed Tuesday, those jurisdictions would no longer be able to collect the taxes.
• Jurisdictions in seven states tax access to the Internet: Hawaii, New Mexico, (Continued on page 23)
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