I respectfully return House Bill 1058 and pursuant to Article IV, Section 4 of the South Dakota Constitution, I exercise a LINE ITEM VETO on the same.

House Bill 1058 is entitled, "An Act to make an appropriation to the Unified Judicial System court automation fund and revise certain record search fees charged by clerks of court".

This bill appropriates one dollar ($1) in Section 1 of the bill which is unnecessary.
Sections 1, 2, and 3 of the bill relate to the appropriation of one dollar ($1) to the Unified Judicial System. Sections 4, 5, and 6 of House Bill 1058 amend SDCL 16-2-29.5 to change the records search fee from fifteen dollars ($15) to the new fee of twenty dollars ($20). This new fee becomes effective January 1, 2013 and will sunset June 30, 2017.

Because of this unnecessary one dollar ($1) appropriation in Section 1, I am exercising a line item veto to strike the portion of the bill which relates to this appropriation. I specifically request that, Sections 1, 2, and 3 of the bill be deleted.

This eliminates the one dollar ($1) appropriation and the other sections relating to this special appropriation.

Finally, I strike the following phrase in the title "make an appropriation to the Unified Judicial System court automation fund and." This changes the title of the bill so that the title relates only to the fee increase.

I respectfully request that you concur with my LINE ITEM VETO of House Bill 1058.

Sincerely,

Dennis Daugaard
Governor

Cc:    The Honorable Jason Gant
    The Honorable Mathew Michels

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