Post by Logan on Jan 27, 2016 1:36:14 GMT -6
A bill working its way across the Capitol will, if it becomes a South Dakota law, send county governments a new stream of revenue to help meet spiraling costs for mental health care, says Hughes County Commissioner Tom Tveit.
The state Senate on Monday approved the bill that would send $3.8 million of about $15 million collected per year in state taxes on alcohol to county governments. The money has been going into state coffers. Cities already have been getting a similar share of the state alcohol tax money. The bill now must pass the House.
Tveit hopes it will.
He’s one of five Hughes County commissioners who have been scrambling the past six months to make budgets meet. Tveit mentioned the alcohol tax Saturday during a “cracker barrel” citizens’ forum with Pierre’s three lawmakers.
Read more: www.capjournal.com/news/sd-bill-promises-new-revenue-for-strapped-counties/article_53ae0a5e-c4b2-11e5-9c22-2b6e228a3f30.html
The state Senate on Monday approved the bill that would send $3.8 million of about $15 million collected per year in state taxes on alcohol to county governments. The money has been going into state coffers. Cities already have been getting a similar share of the state alcohol tax money. The bill now must pass the House.
Tveit hopes it will.
He’s one of five Hughes County commissioners who have been scrambling the past six months to make budgets meet. Tveit mentioned the alcohol tax Saturday during a “cracker barrel” citizens’ forum with Pierre’s three lawmakers.
Read more: www.capjournal.com/news/sd-bill-promises-new-revenue-for-strapped-counties/article_53ae0a5e-c4b2-11e5-9c22-2b6e228a3f30.html