Representative • Republican

Fred Deutsch

South Dakota • District HD-004

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 125

Not Voting: 1

Other: 46

Yea: 1145

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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.

Revise provisions related to the custody of an alleged delinquent child before and after a temporary custody hearing.

Require the creation of an informational video and other materials describing the state's abortion law and medical care for a pregnant woman experiencing life-threatening or health-threatening medical conditions.

Expand certain privileges for individuals who hold an unrestricted enhanced concealed carry permit.

Require a comparison of reemployment assistance recipients against death records for reemployment assistance eligibility integrity.

Create the South Dakota-Ireland Trade Commission.

Prohibit the Board of Regents or any institution under its control from using state resources for obscene live conduct.

Revise and repeal provisions related to the licensure of athletic trainers.

Revise and repeal provisions related to threatening persons holding statewide office, judicial officers, and elected officers and to provide a penalty therefor.

Revise the requirements pertaining to average teacher compensation and to establish a minimum teacher salary.

Waive certain fees for nondriver identification cards for individuals who are homeless.

Provide free birth certificates to persons experiencing homelessness.

Revise provisions regarding the 911 emergency surcharge.

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

Remove a prohibition on the ability of law enforcement and various governmental entities to inspect, search, seize, prosecute, or impose disciplinary action on cannabis dispensaries, cultivation facilities, manufacturing facilities, and testing facilities.

Require the Executive Board of the Legislative Research Council to establish an interim study committee on minors' access to pornographic material.

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

Require the publication of measures taken to restrict the access of obscene materials by minors.

Exclude certain crimes from presumptive probation.

Exclude certain habitual DUI offenders from eligibility for presumptive probation.

Require a convicted defendant to reimburse the cost of digital forensic examination fees.

Further limit applications for clemency for violent crime offenders sentenced to life imprisonment.

Create the Dr. Nicholas W. Drummond Center for Civic Engagement at Black Hills State University.

Create a habitat conservation specialty plate and emblem.

Prohibit the dissemination of incorrect or misleading ballot information and to provide a penalty therefor.

Make fraudulent solicitation of charitable contributions a deceptive act or practice.

Enhance the penalty for accessory to first- or second-degree murder.

Revise a provision related to threatening law enforcement officers.

Create the indigent legal services fund, to provide ongoing revenue therefor, and to make an appropriation therefor.

Require a zoning authority to determine that a well is an established well that has not been abandoned in making a permitting decision.

Revise a provision related to retrocession of jurisdiction over federal enclaves.

Designate Medal of Honor Recognition Day.

Provide for the disbursement of the catastrophic county poor relief fund to the participating counties in the event of the discontinuance of the fund.

Provide that certain personal information of a lottery prize winner may only be used for advertising or promotion with the winner's consent.

Repeal certain provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code.

Authorize certain employer actions regarding the use of cannabis by an employee or a prospective employee.

Provide for the distribution of tax revenue from certain gross receipts occurring on fairgrounds.

Revise provisions related to the State Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners and its appointed professional councils.

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

Modify provisions pertaining to the designation of a legal newspaper.

Prohibit the intentional disarming of a law enforcement officer and to provide a penalty therefor.

Require that an application for a medical marijuana registry identification card include a notice of federal law regarding firearms and the unlawful use of a controlled substance.

Establish provisions related to the rating of books available in school districts.

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