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Party: Democrat Term: Incumbent District: 02 Counties: Brown, Clark, Hamlin, Spink Occupation: Farmer/Cattleman |
| Committee | Chair/ViceChair | Days | Time | Room |
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| Appropriations | Member | MTWThF | 8:00 AM | Room 362 |
| Joint Appropriations | Member | MTWThF | 8:00 AM | Room 362 |
| Committee | Chair/ViceChair |
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| Ag. Land Assessment Task Force | Member |
| Appropriations | Member |
| Bill | Title |
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| HB 1102 | provide for a statewide visitation enforcement program and to provide for its funding by making an appropriation therefor. |
| HB 1115 | continue to appropriate funds to provide cochlear implants to certain children. |
| HB 1273 | exempt agricultural land from the general fund and special education fund levies imposed by school districts. |
| SB 197 | make an appropriation for the costs of the centers for independent living. |
| SB 198 | exempt from sales taxation the gross receipts received by nonprofit organizations from a shooting range or trap shooting facility. |
| Bill | Title |
|---|---|
| HB 1005 | revise certain provisions concerning the assessment of real property, to assess agricultural land based on its agricultural income value, to create an implementation and oversight advisory task force, to repeal certain provisions regarding the assessment of property, and to repeal the nonagricultural acreage classification. |
| HB 1006 | revise certain tax levy limitations and property tax levies for school districts. |
| HB 1088 | revise certain provisions relating to temporary custody prior to divorce or separate maintenance. |
| HB 1089 | revise certain provisions relating to the rights and duties of joint legal custodians. |
| HB 1090 | require that most records and applications regarding a child reference the names and addresses of both parents. |
| HB 1091 | provide that either parent is to reasonably inform the other parent about routine decisions concerning children when residing with the other. |
| HB 1092 | revise certain terminology in the statutes providing for standard child visitation guidelines. |
| HB 1093 | revise certain provisions relating to the custody, service, and earnings of children. |
| HB 1094 | repeal certain provisions concerning the rights of custodial parents that have been superseded by other statutes. |
| HB 1095 | adopt the South Dakota Family Law Arbitration Act and provide for its implementation and enforcement. |
| HB 1096 | authorize the court appointment of parenting coordinators in certain custody and visitation disputes. |
| HB 1097 | provide for the imposition of certain sanctions against parties who willfully do not comply with custody or visitation decrees. |
| HB 1098 | revise certain provisions relating to the rights of alleged contemnors in visitation and custody matters. |
| HB 1100 | create a rebuttable presumption against the award of custody to any person with a proven history of domestic abuse. |
| HB 1101 | provide for an order of joint physical care over certain children whose parents exercise joint legal custody and to create a rebuttable presumption against joint legal custody and joint physical custody under certain circumstances. |
| HB 1123 | establish a state renewable and recycled energy objective and to provide certain reporting requirements. |
| HB 1158 | exempt certain school districts from reorganization requirements. |
| HB 1177 | create the beverage container recycling and redemption program. |
| HB 1178 | make an appropriation for the costs related to the intensive methamphetamine treatment program in the women's state correctional system. |
| HB 1180 | appropriate money for the Northern Crops Institute. |
| HB 1186 | revise the eligibility requirements for the opportunity scholarship by allowing a student to take the ACT or SAT test after graduating from high school. |
| HB 1209 | allow unemployment benefits for an individual in the employ of a tribal government educational institution. |
| HB 1218 | increase the maximum allowable outstanding amount of bonds issued by the Health and Educational Facility Authority on behalf of the four technical institutes. |
| HB 1219 | revise the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2008 regarding appropriations to the Department of Education for the payment of bonds at the technical institutes. |
| HB 1220 | make an appropriation to the postsecondary technical institutes for the maintenance and repair of buildings, and to declare an emergency. |
| HB 1221 | create the postsecondary technical institute auxiliary fund and to provide continuing funding to the postsecondary technical institutes for the costs of maintenance and repair. |
| HB 1222 | create the postsecondary technical institute auxiliary fund and to provide continuing funding from the future fund to the technical institutes for the start-up costs of new programs being created to meet workforce development needs. |
| HB 1223 | create the postsecondary technical institute auxiliary fund and to provide continuing funding from the future fund to the technical institutes for the cost of replacing old or outdated equipment to meet workforce development needs. |
| HB 1225 | direct the Department of Education to undertake a study of the state's school districts and the efficiency of the statewide delivery of education services to the state's students. |
| HB 1230 | appropriate money to promote the development of centers for secondary career and technical education. |
| HB 1231 | increase the one-time payments made to school districts with growing enrollments. |
| HB 1233 | bring transparency to state spending by requiring the Bureau of Finance and Management to create a website making certain state government information available to the public. |
| HB 1234 | require the property tax notification sent to taxpayers to include the breakdown of property taxes by each tax levy. |
| HB 1238 | revise the limitation period for commencing child abuse prosecutions. |
| HB 1239 | permit persons convicted of driving under the influence to operate a vehicle for 24/7 sobriety testing and to declare an emergency. |
| HB 1244 | require the county planning and zoning commission to publish certain minutes. |
| HB 1248 | establish the South Dakota soil conservation award program and to make an appropriation therefor. |
| HB 1257 | revise certain procedures regarding real property assessment and taxation and to repeal the nonagricultural acreage classification and certain provisions regarding the assessment of property. |
| HB 1265 | prohibit the sale, purchase, use, or possession of alcohol without liquid devices. |
| HB 1272 | revise the defined sources of renewable electricity and recycled energy. |
| HB 1284 | require certain employees acquiring real property to be certified, licensed, or registered by the Department of Revenue and Regulation as real estate appraisers. |
| HB 1285 | establish an incentive grant program for the installation of ethanol blender pumps and to make an appropriation therefor. |
| HB 1286 | provide for legislative redistricting by a bipartisan, nonlegislative commission. |
| HB 1290 | exempt certain entities from certain requirements for persons in the business of mortgage lending. |
| HB 1302 | establish notification requirements for certain relatives of children in the custody of the Department of Social Services. |
| HB 1304 | implement the recommendations of the Indian Child Welfare Commission. |
| HB 1308 | require the Board of Education to revise the alternative certification standards for career and technical education teachers. |
| HC 1002 | Honoring Louie Krogman of White River, South Dakota, for setting the all-time scoring record for South Dakota boys' high school basketball. |
| HC 1003 | Honoring Brittany Davis of Waubay as the 2008 South Dakota Snow Queen. |
| HC 1009 | Honoring Drew Carroll for achieving the rank of Eagle Scout. |
| HC 1010 | Honoring Drew Whitney for achieving the rank of Eagle Scout. |
| HC 1013 | Honoring Lisa Jan Thvedt, of Beresford, South Dakota, for being selected to represent her state as South Dakota's Junior Miss 2007 in the America's Junior Miss Scholarship Program in Mobile, Alabama. |
| HC 1023 | Honoring the 2007 University of Sioux Falls Football Team and the students and staff involved in the football program. |
| HC 1024 | Honoring Toby Flint of Brookings as a recipient of a 2008 Prudential Spirit of Community Award. |
| HC 1034 | Honoring Sue Horstmeyer for her years of dedicated service to the South Dakota education system. |
| HC 1035 | Honoring Sarah Thvedt as a distinguished finalist for the Prudential Spirit of Community Award. |
| HC 1037 | Commending and honoring Casimir Ziolkowski for pushing forward with his father's dream of the Crazy Horse Memorial. |
| HCR 1005 | To declare March 29, 2008, as Vietnam Veterans Day, in South Dakota. |
| HCR 1007 | Supporting the establishment of USDA-inspected horse processing plants in the State of South Dakota. |
| HCR 1009 | Supporting full funding, at the federal level, for immigration and custom enforcement officers for the detention of persons who have been determined to be in South Dakota illegally and have been reported to them by local law enforcement officers. |
| HCR 1010 | Supporting the "25 by 25" Initiative and promoting the increased production of renewable energy by the agricultural community. |
| HCR 1011 | Expressing the Legislature's consummate respect and appreciation for the service of Master Sergeant Woodrow Wilson Keeble, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award. |
| HJR 1002 | Proposing and submitting to the electors at the next general election an amendment to Article XIV of the Constitution of the State of South Dakota to clarify which educational institutions are under the control of the Board of Regents. |
| SB 65 | define intentional exposure to HIV infection by sexual intercourse as a sex crime subject to registry as a sex offender. |
| SB 72 | make an appropriation for an engineering survey and a repair cost estimate of Richmond Lake Dam. |
| SB 106 | limit state expenditures. |
| SB 109 | authorize the Fourth Circuit drug court program in the Unified Judicial System, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency. |
| SB 115 | increase the amount of funding for conservation and value-added agriculture purposes from certain unclaimed motor fuel tax refunds. |
| SB 116 | revise certain provisions concerning the assessment of real property and to revise the makeup of the implementation and oversight advisory task force. |
| SB 117 | revise certain tax levy limitations and property tax levies for school districts. |
| SB 120 | require that certain bond sales be competitive. |
| SB 122 | provide a legislative deadline for the adoption of the budget for the Department of Education. |
| SB 145 | revise the definition of an opportunity wage for the purposes of the minimum wage requirement. |
| SB 146 | repeal certain provisions regarding the minimum wage for tipped employees. |
| SB 149 | increase general funding for school districts, to impose a temporary limit on the growth of state general fund spending, and to suspend the transfer of moneys from the general fund to the budget reserve fund and to the property tax reduction fund. |
| SB 150 | increase general funding for schools, to impose a temporary limit on the growth of state general fund spending, to suspend the transfer of moneys from the general fund to the budget reserve fund and to the property tax reduction fund, to provide funding for the postsecondary technical institutes, to provide for the modernization of science facilities and laboratories at public universities, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency. |
| SB 151 | revise certain provisions concerning the purchase price and determining just compensation for electric facilities in areas annexed by municipalities. |
| SB 154 | allow public schools to maintain pre-kindergarten programs, to provide the Board of Education with rule making authority for pre-kindergarten programs, and to provide funding through the state aid to education formula for students in accredited pre-kindergarten programs. |
| SB 156 | revise certain provisions regarding special motor vehicle license plates for veterans with a disability, prisoners of war, Pearl Harbor survivors, and Purple Heart recipients. |
| SB 168 | provide for the development and financing of certain wind energy projects by school districts. |
| SB 172 | appropriate money to the Department of Public Safety to fund the South Dakota Highway Patrol. |
| SB 174 | revise certain provisions relating to the exercise of eminent domain by railroads. |
| SB 176 | authorize the Legislative Research Council to remodel, renovate, and furnish certain facilities on the fourth floor of the State Capitol Building for use by the Legislature, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency. |
| SB 182 | expand the disclosure of inpatient hospital charges and to provide for the development of a system for the disclosure of charges for outpatient procedures. |
| SB 190 | provide for regulatory oversight of oil pipelines and to create a task force. |
| SB 194 | provide for the establishment of public charter schools, of the State Board for Public Charter Schools, and the creation, operation, and maintenance of public charter schools. |
| SB 195 | create the South Dakota Commission on Higher Pay and Economic Prosperity, to prescribe its duties, and to make an appropriation therefor. |
| SB 199 | revise certain provisions concerning public meetings. |
| SC 2 | Commending and honoring the 2006-2007 Outstanding School Administrators of South Dakota: Larry Johnke, Irene-Wakonda, School Superintendent; Dennis Povondra, Bon Homme, School Business Official; Ruth Claeys, Box Elder, Elementary School Principal; James Bridge, Alexandria, Secondary School Principal; Bradley Berens, Mitchell, Middle School Principal; Wallace Bosch, Yankton, Assistant Secondary Principal; Dr. Lesli Hanson, Watertown, Curriculum Director; and Daniel Goodwin, Sioux Falls, Director of Special Education for being named outstanding administrators by their respective administrator parent groups. |
| SC 8 | Recognizing and congratulating the Scotland Highlander Football Team for winning the 2007 State Class 9A Football Championship. |
| SC 12 | Honoring Kelsey Kimbler for achieving the title of Junior Miss Aberdeen. |
| SC 13 | Honoring Amber Kolb for achieving the title of Miss Aberdeen. |
| SC 14 | Commending the Stratford Community Theatre and its many volunteers for building social and economic bonds in their local communities through the performing arts. |
| SC 18 | Commending and honoring the 2007 Habitat for Humanity—South Dakota Habitat Supporters of the Year: Laurie Shelton, Huron, Beadle County Habitat for Humanity; Barbara Garcia and Mayor Jim Shaw, Rapid City, Black Hills Area Habitat for Humanity; Steve Helling, Brookings, Brookings Area Habitat for Humanity; Melanie Urich, Dacotah Tipis Habitat for Humanity; Rita Edwards, Madison, East Central SD Habitat for Humanity; Harry Kittams, Sioux Falls, Greater Sioux Falls Habitat for Humanity; Doris Holden, Pierre, Oahe Habitat for Humanity; First Financial Bank USA, Okiciyapi Tipi Habitat for Humanity; Clint Waara, Pierre, Sicangu Tikaga Okiciyapi Habitat for Humanity; Thomas Burns, Watertown, Watertown Region Habitat for Humanity; Barb Mechtenberg, Habitat for Humanity of Yankton County; Sicangu Takaga Okiciyapi Habitat for Humanity, Habitat for Humanity Midwest Resource Center; and StarMark, Sioux Falls, Habitat for Humanity—South Dakota, Inc. |
| SCR 4 | Urging the United State Congress to remove Section 132 from the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 before its final passage. |
| SCR 5 | Urging the Midwest Independent System Operator to reconsider its pricing methodology with respect to certain energy transmission costs. |
| SCR 6 | Recognizing the Boys and Girls Clubs of the South Dakota Alliance and commending the individuals, communities, and tribes that financially support the clubs. |
| SCR 9 | Urging the use of market-driven upstream carbon offset programs in the development of regional carbon trading systems. |
| SCR 12 | Recognizing the United States of America Women's Olympic Softball Team. |
| SCR 14 | Requesting the Governor, the Commissioner of School and Public Lands, the Department of Game, Fish and Parks, and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to develop a system of managing and maintaining the state-owned dams. |
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