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Minority Whip Party: Democrat Term: Incumbent District: 15 Counties: Minnehaha Occupation: Economics Professor |
| Committee | Chair/ViceChair | Days | Time | Room |
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| Committee on Appropriations | Member | MTWThF | 8:00 AM | Room 362 |
| Joint Committee on Appropriations | Member | MTWThF | 8:00 AM | Room 362 |
| Joint Legislative Procedure | Member | Call of Chair | 3:00 PM | Room 413 |
| Legislative Procedure | Member | Call of Chair | 10:00 AM | Room 413 |
| Retirement Laws | Member | Call of Chair | 3:00 PM | Room 412 |
| Committee | Chair/ViceChair |
|---|---|
| Appropriations | Member |
| Industrial Hemp Study | Member |
| Retirement Laws | Member |
| Bill | Title |
|---|---|
| SB 99 | establish certain provisions regarding commercial security deposits. |
| SB 113 | provide that certain information contained within applications for money lending licenses are public records. |
| SB 114 | attribute campaign contributions by certain minors to their parents. |
| SB 116 | create the Dakota promise fund, provide Dakota promise grants, and to make an appropriation. |
| SB 117 | authorize Spanish to be used in the process of issuing certain driver licenses and permits. |
| SB 144 | remove certain sanctions regarding public assistance for certain felony drug offenders. |
| SB 157 | revise and repeal certain provisions regarding petitions for ballot measures. |
| SB 160 | provide for calculations of sales tax revenues from sellers located outside of the state. |
| SC 19 | Congratulating Abby Neff of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on the extraordinary honor of winning a 2019 Prudential Spirit of Community Award. |
| SCR 1 | Urging Congress to increase federal funding for special education. |
| HB 1001 | revise the timing of the recalculation of the allocations for the disability levels in the state aid to special education formula. |
| HB 1122 | revise references to persons who are deaf or hard of hearing. |
| HB 1141 | adjust certain maximum school district tax rates. |
| HB 1175 | establish the Early Learning Advisory Council. |
| HB 1213 | require a feasibility study and actuarial analysis on long-term care services and supports. |
| HB 1228 | provide for certain inmates to petition for concurrent sentences. |
| HB 1230 | add clergy to the list of mandatory reporters for suspected child abuse or neglect. |
| HC 1014 | Honoring the 2019 South Dakota Boys & Girls Clubs of America's Youth of the Year finalists. |
| HJR 1007 | To refer to the voters the question of whether the state should expand Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. |
| Bill | Title |
|---|---|
| SB 1 | add a legislator to the membership of the Extraordinary Cost Oversight Board, to establish the board in statute, and to repeal the administrative rules creating the board. |
| SB 2 | adjust for inflation the amount of the special education appropriation that may be set aside for extraordinary expenses. |
| SB 3 | create the Special Education Interim Legislative Committee. |
| SB 52 | require a survey to determine the adequacy of civics and history instruction in accredited schools. |
| SB 60 | require the secretary of public safety to provide recommendations to the Legislature on a statewide threat assessment plan. |
| SB 61 | provide certain provisions regarding nursing facility closures. |
| SB 62 | provide for the use of certain general funds to increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for existing Medicaid providers. |
| SB 68 | define certain acts as misbranding of food products. |
| SB 71 | prohibit capital punishment of any person with severe mental illness. |
| SB 84 | authorize the possession and administration of opioid antagonists by school district and nonpublic school personnel, and to declare an emergency. |
| SB 90 | revise provisions regarding certain financial interest statements filed by persons elected to state or local office. |
| SB 94 | revise provisions regarding rule-making authority to establish certain fuel standards. |
| SB 106 | authorize a county gross receipts tax. |
| SB 120 | modify the time period allowable for certain covenants not to compete. |
| SB 136 | provide for the utilization of telehealth by a health care professional. |
| SB 137 | provide for the payment of claims for covered services provided by a health care professional via telehealth. |
| SB 138 | revise certain provisions regarding microbreweries. |
| SB 142 | require the state to assume the responsibility for legal expenses of certain persons in state custody. |
| SB 148 | provide for state employee protection from retaliation for certain communications. |
| SB 169 | allow a property tax extension for certain federal workers and to declare an emergency. |
| SB 183 | revise certain provisions regarding buffer strips. |
| SB 184 | revise certain provisions regarding certification of utility permits. |
| SC 12 | Commending and honoring Shane O'Connell for his success and achievement in national and international rodeo competitions. |
| SC 13 | Commending and honoring the University of South Dakota Women's Cross Country Team for their outstanding athletic performance in winning their fifth consecutive Summit League Championship. |
| SC 14 | Commending and honoring the University of South Dakota Women's Basketball Team for their outstanding athletic performance in winning their third regular season Summit League Championship in four years. |
| SC 16 | Honoring the life of John Knebel. |
| SC 29 | Honoring Lois Henry for her outstanding commitment and dedicated service to the State of South Dakota and the South Dakota Legislature. |
| SC 32 | Honoring and congratulating Nash Hutmacher for winning the 285-pound weight class at the 2019 State Class A Wrestling Tournament for the third consecutive year, as well as his success in the sport of football. |
| SC 33 | Honoring Cammack Ranch as the 2018 Leopold Conservation Award recipient. |
| SCR 6 | Urging the President of the United States to make agricultural exports a priority and protect agricultural products from all current and future tariffs. |
| SCR 7 | Directing the Executive Board to create a fifteen-member task force to study and make legislative proposals regarding alternatives to imprisonment for those convicted of the crime of ingestion of controlled substances. |
| SCR 8 | Requesting Congress to lawfully change the Medicaid eligibility requirements to give states the option to provide Medicaid services to persons in jail pending disposition. |
| SCR 13 | Recognizing the "Know Before You Fly" campaign as an official source of safety education for operators of unmanned aircraft systems and instructing the Department of Public Safety to educate the public about the campaign. |
| SR 1 | Urging the President and United States Congress to act quickly to end the ongoing federal government shutdown. |
| SR 2 | Recognizing the impact of Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias on persons living with these conditions, caregivers, and the State of South Dakota. |
| SR 3 | Commending and honoring Angela Kennecke for excellence in journalism. |
| HB 1060 | make an appropriation for increased reimbursement for care of residents of nursing facilities and assisted living facilities. |
| HB 1068 | authorize the Transportation Commission to promulgate rules to allow certain motor vehicles to follow another motor vehicle on a state highway more closely than otherwise permitted by law. |
| HB 1074 | provide a privilege for journalists and newscasters regarding refusal to disclose information. |
| HB 1080 | increase the property tax exemption allowed for certain veterans with a disability and the surviving spouses of certain veterans with a disability. |
| HB 1081 | authorize certain paraplegic or amputee veterans or their surviving spouses to retain a property tax exemption without having to reapply each year. |
| HB 1089 | revise provisions regarding electronic livestock auctions. |
| HB 1090 | repeal certain provisions regarding the exercise of certain powers over certain property. |
| HB 1111 | provide for professional or occupational licensure for certain active duty military personnel and spouses. |
| HB 1124 | require health care facilities that perform mammography to inform mammography patients on breast density. |
| HB 1147 | establish a tribal flag display on the capitol grounds. |
| HB 1148 | create a Commission on Indian Affairs. |
| HB 1149 | provide an appropriation for the Native American achievement schools grant program. |
| HB 1150 | establish a nonbeneficiary student scholarship program for certain students attending tribally controlled colleges and to make an appropriation therefor. |
| HB 1151 | permit certain acts at a school honoring or graduation ceremony. |
| HB 1153 | revise certain provisions on the protection of historic properties. |
| HB 1161 | revise certain provisions regarding the issuance of temporary permits for the use of public water. |
| HB 1163 | establish the Tax Revenue Study Task Force to study tax revenue in this state. |
| HB 1164 | revise certain provisions regarding the operation of vehicles upon the approach of authorized emergency vehicles. |
| HB 1191 | legalize the growth, production, and processing of industrial hemp and derivative products in the state. |
| HB 1237 | establish the duty to collect data and share information on missing and murdered indigenous persons. |
| HB 1238 | revise provisions regarding training on missing and murdered indigenous persons. |
| HB 1241 | establish certain provisions regarding training for human trafficking prevention. |
| HB 1243 | revise provisions regarding hate crimes. |
| HB 1267 | prohibit county commissioners from holding municipal office. |
| HC 1002 | Honoring the life of Beverly Smith. |
| HC 1003 | Commending and recognizing the numerous contributions made by South Dakota's social workers and recognizing March 2019 as National Social Work Month. |
| HC 1004 | Honoring and commending Myron Floren, for his service to the state of South Dakota through his exemplary work as an accordionist. |
| HC 1007 | Honoring Calico Ducheneaux of Mobridge, South Dakota Girls State Governor and Seamus Duffy 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. |
| HC 1008 | Recognizing February as Black History Month and South Dakota's rich history of African American achievements. |
| HC 1012 | Honoring the 2018 Augustana University Baseball Team and the students and staff involved in the baseball program. |
| HC 1015 | Honoring the Pierre Junior Shooters BB Gun Team for placing second in the 2018 Daisy National BB Gun Championship. |
| HC 1017 | Recognizing the individuals and organizations participating in memorial rides and runs this winter to honor and pay tribute to those brave relatives who lost their lives during the tumultuous times in the 1860s through the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. |
| HC 1018 | Commending the South Dakota Retirement System Board of Trustees for its sound fiscal management and the national recognition of its innovative retirement plan design. |
| HC 1019 | Honoring and commending Robert A. Wylie for his dedicated service to the South Dakota Retirement System and the development of sound public pension policies in South Dakota and across the country. |
| HC 1021 | Commending the South Dakota Air National Guard 114th Fighter Wing of Sioux Falls on being awarded the Distinguished Flying Unit Plaque, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, Major General John J. Pesch Flight Safety Award, and William W. Spruance Safety Award for 2018. |
| HC 1025 | Commending and honoring Raica, a police service dog for the South Dakota Highway Patrol and her Police Service Dog Handler Trooper Michael Dale, for their loyal team service to the State of South Dakota for the past seven years. |
| HC 1026 | Honoring the service of the South Dakota National Guard's Adjutant General, Major General Timothy A. Reisch, for his tenure serving as Adjutant Major General for the State of South Dakota Department of Military from April 2011 through June 2019. |
| HC 1028 | Celebrating and commemorating the commissioning of the USS South Dakota. |
| HJR 1001 | Proposing and submitting to the voters at the next general election an amendment to the Constitution of the State of South Dakota regarding appointments to fill legislative vacancies. |
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