A LEGISLATIVE COMMEMORATION honoring the South Dakota Health Care Association on its seventy-fifth anniversary.

WHEREAS, the South Dakota Health Care Association has, for the past seventy-five years, focused on providing assistance and long-term care services so that individuals can continue living dignified and meaningful lives; and

WHEREAS, the South Dakota Health Care Association has educated countless individuals, families, and community leaders over the years about planning for long-term care services in order to better help elderly individuals and persons with disabilities lead productive and active lives; and

WHEREAS, the South Dakota Health Care Association is committed to continuing this mission for many decades and more generations hence; and

WHEREAS, the South Dakota Health Care Association's Board of Directors consists of President Jason Hanssen, Estelline; Secretary Laura Karlson, Rapid City; Treasurer Kasey Klapprodt, Watertown; Non-Proprietary Representatives Tyler Donahue, Rapid City, and Deborah Herrboldt, Sioux Falls; Proprietary Representatives Celina Block, Rapid City, and Megan Kleinsasser, Wessington; Assisted Living Representative Krista Beauchamp, Watertown; and Immediate Past-President Tatiana Johnson, Rapid City;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT COMMEMORATED, by the One Hundred First Legislature of the State of South Dakota, that the South Dakota Health Care Association is congratulated for seventy-five years of life-enhancing services to elderly individuals and persons with disabilities in South Dakota.