Assistant Minority Leader Party: Democrat Term: Incumbent District: 21 Counties: Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Gregory, Tripp Occupation: Investment Consultant and Rancher |
Committee | Chair/ViceChair | Days | Time | Room |
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Appropriations | Member | MTWThF | 8:00 AM | Room 363 |
Joint Appropriations | Member | MTWThF | 8:00 AM | Room 362 |
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Ag. Land Assessment Task Force | Member |
Appropriations | Member |
Education Funding Formula Study | Member |
Legislative Planning Committee | Member |
State-Tribal Relations | Member |
Bill | Title |
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SB 2 | provide funding for unresolved surface depredation caused by oil and gas exploration and to make an appropriation therefor. |
SB 161 | authorize certain persons to perform limited equine dentistry procedures. |
SB 162 | establish goals and objectives for economic development. |
SB 229 | make an appropriation for the purpose of providing funding for career and technical education. |
SCR 5 | Commending the Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG) pilot program at Wagner Community School, and honoring Sage Zephier for delivering the student address for the JAG National Leadership Awards Luncheon in Washington. |
SR 2 | Commending the Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG) pilot program at Wagner Community School, and honoring Sage Zephier for delivering the student address for the JAG National Leadership Awards Luncheon in Washington, D.C. |
HB 1001 | require mineral developers to give notice to surface owners before entering the land. |
HB 1117 | revise the definition of a temporary special events lot for the purposes of vehicle dealer licensing. |
HB 1187 | provide alternative brand inspection procedures for certain rodeo livestock. |
HB 1239 | appropriate money to the Board of Regents for the purpose of funding increased employee health insurance costs, and to declare an emergency. |
HC 1018 | Commending and honoring Michael (Mike) Denker, a member of the Wagner School District Board of Education, on his selection as the Associated School Boards of South Dakota Outstanding School Board Member of South Dakota for 2013. |
HC 1063 | Recognizing the fortieth anniversary of the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee. |
Bill | Title |
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SB 1 | revise the provisions regarding plugging and performance bonds for oil and gas wells and to repeal the supplemental restoration bond requirement. |
SB 6 | determine whether factors affecting productivity should be applied if the actual use of agricultural land does not correspond to the soil classification standards. |
SB 70 | improve public safety. |
SB 74 | require the forfeiture of preference points for certain hunting licenses upon conviction of unlawfully killing, destroying, taking, or possessing trophy animals. |
SB 80 | reinstate certain provisions repealed in the Eighty-seventh Legislative Session regarding the accounting for federal impact aid. |
SB 88 | authorize the county to deny bids on county sales of tax deed properties if the bidder is not current on property taxes due. |
SB 94 | prohibit a social host from permitting the underage consumption of alcoholic beverages on the social host's premises and to provide penalties therefor. |
SB 96 | exempt certain school districts from the requirement to reorganize due to low enrollment. |
SB 99 | revise the term used to refer to the imposition of an additional property tax levy for raising revenue for school districts. |
SB 111 | amend provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code relating to electronic funds transfers and to declare an emergency. |
SB 125 | provide for the award of joint physical custody of children under certain circumstances. |
SB 133 | establish a pharmacy audit integrity program. |
SB 142 | prohibit the use of certain handheld electronic wireless devices for electronic messaging while driving and to prohibit conflicting municipal regulations. |
SB 152 | authorize the hunting of coyotes using artificial light under certain conditions. |
SB 158 | provide for the funding of educational programs for children in residential treatment centers, intensive residential treatment centers, or licensed group care centers. |
SB 164 | revise the compensation requirements payable to surface owners for exploration damages and to allow the payments to be made in multiple installments. |
SB 176 | appropriate money to the South Dakota Board of Regents - Agricultural Experiment Station to implement a research investment program. |
SB 182 | enhance economic development. |
SB 183 | revise provisions relating to hunting trespass and to increase certain penalties for trespassing. |
SB 185 | clarify the authority of the interim rules review committee. |
SB 188 | make an appropriation to fund the Teach for America grant program. |
SB 191 | increase state aid to education and revise certain provisions related to education funding. |
SB 196 | revise the index factor in the state aid to general education and state aid to special education formulas. |
SB 199 | exempt certain property used for educational purposes from taxation. |
SB 205 | authorize the hunting of wolves in certain circumstances. |
SB 214 | prohibit certain unfair or discriminatory practices based on veteran or military status. |
SB 215 | provide procedures by which adopted persons may obtain their original birth certificates. |
SB 217 | exempt certain rodeo events from sales taxes. |
SB 218 | establish a program to assist rural counties to recruit attorneys. |
SB 222 | clarify the voting status of certain parolees and probationers. |
SB 225 | prohibit a person from keeping or maintaining a place allowing underage drinking and to provide penalties therefor. |
SB 227 | revise provisions relating to the possession of firearms on snowmobiles. |
SB 238 | appropriate money to the animal damage control fund for predator control services and to declare an emergency. |
SC 3 | Commending and honoring the 2011-2012 outstanding school administrators of South Dakota: Bob Sittig, Baltic, School Superintendent; Jeff Rieckman, Haakon, Middle School Principal; Marcia Jackson, Hot Springs, School Business Official; Tim Kosters, Lead-Deadwood, Elementary School Principal; Rocky Brinkman, Andes Central, Secondary School Principal; Melinda Jensen, Brookings, Assistant Secondary School Principal; Tanya Rasmussen, Harrisburg, Curriculum Director; Chrissy Peterson, Meade, Director of Special Education for being named |
SC 5 | Commending and congratulating Colton Manville, Trevor Mahoney, and Dean Laganiere, students at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, for qualifying for the Olympics of Computer Science which will take place in Russia. |
SC 8 | Honoring Harold Thune and Jerald Applebee of Murdo for their individual accomplishments, as well as their efforts and involvement with the Annual Jones County Invitational Basketball Tournament. |
SC 11 | Acknowledging the Deubrook Area High School Football Team for winning the 2012 State 9AA Football Championship. |
SC 12 | Commending and honoring the Parker State Class B Boys Cross Country Champions. |
SC 13 | Honoring the crew of North Carolina Air National Guard, MAFFS (Modular Airborne FireFighting System) 7, 145th Airlift Wing, Charlotte, North Carolina. |
SC 14 | honoring Molly Hermann of Sturgis, South Dakota Girls State Governor and Ty Wiley of Sioux Falls, South Dakota Boys State Governor; and commending the South Dakota American Legion and Auxiliary for their sponsorship and coordination of the Girls State and Boys State programs. |
SC 15 | Honoring the Kopriva family of Clark County as the 2012 Leopold Conservation Award recipient. |
SC 16 | Commending and honoring Gale Lundberg on his retirement from teaching and coaching for fifty years in South Dakota schools. |
SC 18 | Commending and honoring Parker Elementary School for receiving the National Blue Ribbon Award. |
SC 19 | Commending and honoring the White River Tigers Boys Basketball Team for its 2012 State Class B Basketball Championship. |
SC 20 | Commending and honoring the White River Tigers Boys Gold Team on being champions of the 2012 Boys State Class B Golf Tournament. |
SC 22 | Celebrating and honoring Tabor's Annual Czech Days Festivities on the occasion of its sixty-fifth anniversary on June 20, 21, and 22, 2013. |
SC 29 | Honoring Courtney Peterson of Sisseton, South Dakota, as the recipient of the 2012 Miss Rodeo America First Runner-up Award. |
SC 30 | Honoring Kristina Maddocks of Hecla, South Dakota as 2013 Miss Rodeo South Dakota. |
SC 32 | Honoring Paige McPherson for winning a bronze medal in Taekwondo during the 2012 summer Olympic Games. |
SCR 3 | Urging the members of the South Dakota Congressional delegation to sponsor and support legislation granting states the authority to require sellers, regardless of nexus, to collect sales and use taxes if certain tax simplification and streamlining thresholds are met by the states. |
SCR 6 | Requesting the Congress of the United States to enact legislation that would reinstate the separation of commercial and investment banking functions that were in effect under the Glass-Steagall Act (Banking Act of 1933). |
SR 1 | endorsing the induction of Tom C. Miller into the PRCA Rodeo Hall of Fame. |
HB 1002 | provide for the creation of a trust account for unlocatable mineral interest owners. |
HB 1003 | revise the purpose of the agriculture mediation program. |
HB 1004 | provide for the award of treble damages in certain surface depredation cases. |
HB 1005 | require certain posting of information if hydraulic fracture stimulation is performed on oil and gas wells. |
HB 1006 | revise certain provisions relating to the termination of certain mineral interests. |
HB 1066 | continue the current rate of the gross receipts tax imposed on visitor-related businesses. |
HB 1067 | designate POW/MIA Recognition Day as a working holiday. |
HB 1075 | revise the membership of the Legislative Planning Committee. |
HB 1086 | revise certain provisions relating to the publication of certain records by cooperatives. |
HB 1089 | require statewide livestock ownership inspection. |
HB 1091 | establish certain provisions regarding the labeling of motor fuel at a retail fuel pump and to declare an emergency. |
HB 1121 | require the publication of information on the number of veterans and veterans with service-connected disabilities employed by South Dakota state government. |
HB 1144 | permit the euthanization of wildlife that have been seriously injured in motor vehicle accidents. |
HB 1145 | provide that road-killed animals are in the public domain and to provide the means of possession. |
HB 1146 | prohibit private trapping by conservation officers and certain Game, Fish and Parks employees. |
HB 1147 | transfer the administration and supervision of all trapping statutes and rules to the Department of Agriculture. |
HB 1148 | revise certain provisions relating to the checking of traps and removal of caught animals. |
HB 1154 | lower the state sales and use tax on certain food items and to increase the rate of taxation for the sales and use tax on certain goods and services. |
HB 1156 | revise certain provisions concerning nonresident waterfowl licenses. |
HB 1165 | revise certain provisions concerning the agricultural land task force. |
HB 1166 | reward teachers in school districts that have a low percentage of graduates in need of remediation upon entering higher education, and to make an appropriation therefor. |
HB 1182 | provide for the licensure and regulation of private detectives. |
HB 1196 | establish the rural economic development partnership program and to make an appropriation therefor. |
HB 1198 | allow certain opportunity scholarship recipients who graduate early to use the remainder of their scholarship award for graduate studies. |
HB 1201 | compensate school districts for recent funding shortfalls by increasing the per student allocation in the state aid to general education formula over the next three years. |
HB 1202 | revise the index factor in the state aid to general education formula. |
HB 1205 | expand Medicaid. |
HB 1214 | expand Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women and to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency. |
HB 1215 | limit the authority of delegates to a limited constitutional convention to vote for unauthorized amendments contrary to legislative instructions and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof. |
HB 1216 | prohibit computer damage, computer theft, and unauthorized computer access and provide penalties therefor. |
HB 1221 | provide for the establishment and maintenance of a state veterans and public servants cemetery and memorial park. |
HB 1232 | differentiate the penalty for hiring another person to engage in sexual activity based on the age of the victim and to provide a penalty therefor. |
HC 1005 | Commending and honoring the 2012 Habitat for Humanity - South Dakota Habitat Supporters of the Year. |
HC 1017 | Commending and honoring the 2011-2012 Girls AA Mitchell High School Kernel Basketball Team for winning the State AA Girls Basketball Championship. |
HC 1019 | Recognizing and honoring the South Dakota Arthritis Foundation for its efforts to raise awareness and work towards the prevention and cure of arthritis in children and adults. |
HC 1020 | Honoring the memory of Don Hight. |
HC 1021 | Honoring and commemorating the fifty-fifth anniversary in 2013 of the annual Schmeckfest in Freeman, South Dakota. |
HC 1022 | Honoring the South Dakota Department of Agriculture for one hundred ten years of promoting, protecting, preserving, and improving South Dakota's agriculture for today and tomorrow. |
HC 1025 | Recognizing Saturday, July 27, 2013, as the National Day of the American Cowboy. |
HC 1027 | Honoring Hannah Higdon of Dupree, South Dakota, as a distinguished finalist for a Prudential Spirit of Community Award. |
HC 1056 | Honoring those persons who encourage children to read and those children who participate in the Read Across America Program that builds awareness and supports reading programs in our homes and communities. |
HC 1067 | Honoring Hartman Katz, Reagan Francom, and Matt Halter of the Huron High School Wrestling Team for participating in the 2013 State Class A Wrestling Tournament. |
HC 1068 | Honoring and commending Pace Douglas Clayton for his military service to the United States of America. |
HC 1070 | Honoring the memory of Milo Smith. |
HC 1085 | Honoring and thanking Bernie and Myrna Hunhoff and their family for the contributions of South Dakota Magazine to the state of South Dakota. |
HC 1095 | Honoring Calder Eschenbaum from Lake Preston High School. |
HC 1096 | Honoring Amanda Poppen from DeSmet High School. |
HC 1098 | Honoring Eugene Martin from DeSmet High School for his back to back state wrestling titles. |
HCR 1003 | Commending the nation of Israel for its cordial relationship with the United States and with the State of South Dakota. |
HCR 1005 | Recognizing November 2013 as COPD Awareness Month. |
HCR 1011 | Encouraging pedestrians and bicyclists to wear brightly colored clothing when using a public highway and for motorists to watch for pedestrians and bicyclists. |
HJR 1001 | Proposing and submitting to the electors at the next general election an amendment to Article III, section 5 of the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, relating to legislative redistricting. |
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