Senator • Republican

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South Dakota • District SD-012

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Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

71% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 212

Not Voting: 1

Other: 30

Yea: 1508

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Sponsored Bills

Modify practice criteria for physician assistants.

Provide a process to withdraw a signature from a petition for an initiated measure, constitutional amendment, or a referendum on a law in certain situations and to declare an emergency.

Increase the annual limit of tax credits that an insurance company may claim through the partners in education tax credit program.

Prevent a county, township, or municipality from authorizing a guaranteed income program.

Require the consideration of the definition of antisemitism when investigating unfair or discriminatory practices.

Provide that required exterior hunting garments may be fluorescent pink.

Establish educational standards for the expanded practice of optometry.

Expand permission on installing electric wiring in a residence.

Create a habitat conservation specialty plate and emblem.

Revise certain provisions pertaining to time of school district elections.

Include shelterbelts as a factor affecting productivity in determining assessed value of agricultural land.

Amend provisions pertaining to the partners in education tax credit program.

Expand authorization for the conditional taking of coyotes from snowmobiles.

Require a school board to hold a bond election at a primary or school general election.

Expand eligibility to practice as a dental hygienist under the collaborative supervision of a dentist.

Repeal the Petroleum Release Compensation Board.

Prohibit a homeowners' association from placing restrictions on firearms or firearm ammunition.

Extend the period of renewal for an enhanced permit to carry a concealed pistol.

Clarify provisions regarding historical license plates.

Revise the water resources projects list.

Permit a hunter with a disabled hunter permit to use a motorized wheelchair for hunting on school or public lands.

Prohibit the use of paid petition circulators to collect signatures for a statewide ballot measure.

Revise provisions relating to the possession, manufacture, and distribution of child pornography.

Repeal the expiration of a reduction in certain gross receipts and use tax rates.

Limit annual valuation increases on owner-occupied single-family dwellings.

Revise provisions related to parental support for expenses related to pregnancy and childbirth.

Require a percentage of signatures on a petition to initiate a constitutional amendment to be obtained from each legislative district.

Modify the requirements for eligibility to vote by absentee ballot.

Create the Center for American Exceptionalism at Black Hills State University, make an appropriation therefor, and declare an emergency.

Expand provisions regarding the protection of minors from certain exhibitions.

Prohibit lobbying by state officials and employees.

Provide for diploma privilege for admittance to the practice of law.

Increase the annual fee for certain electric motor vehicles.

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