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___________________ moved that SB 169 be amended as follows:

     On the Senate State Affairs Committee engrossed bill, delete everything after the enacting clause and insert:

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     Section 1. A legislative ethics committee is established consisting of five members from the Senate and five members from the House of Representatives. The president pro tempore in consultation with the minority leader of the Senate and the speaker of the House of Representatives in consultation with the minority leader of the House of Representatives shall appoint their respective members of the ethics committee. No more than three members from each house may be from the same political party.

     Section 2. The ethics committee shall propose, not later than ten legislative days after the beginning of the Eighty-third Session of the South Dakota Legislature, a code of ethics and conflict of interest requirements as new chapters in the joint rules. The ethics committee shall make further recommendations regarding the procedures to be used by the select committees established pursuant to chapter 8 of the Senate rules or chapter 6 of the House rules. Each house shall consider and act upon the recommendations of the ethics committee within ten legislative days of receipt of the ethics committee's report.

     Section 3. The ethics committee appointed pursuant to section 1 of this Act shall terminate after delivery of its report. "