SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The Senate Local Government Committee today defeated a bill tying legislator’s pay to across-the-board increases to state employee’s salaries.
Senator Troy Heinert, after speaking to a school administrator in his hometown of Mission, offered a different take on legislative pay.
Heiner says the administrator told him to give themselve a $30,000 salary and then maybe the legislature would be more diverse.
Heinert says the legislature should make the tough decision about a pay raise with a two-thirds vote.