Representative • Democrat

Shawn Bordeaux

South Dakota • District HD-026A

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 206

Not Voting: 1

Other: 72

Yea: 988

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Shawn Bordeaux

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Expand eligibility for the reduced tuition benefit for certain school district and Head Start employees at Board of Regents institutions to school counselors.

Establish educational standards for the expanded practice of optometry.

Permit the use of tribal identification cards when registering to vote.

Make an appropriation for the erection of the South Dakota Sioux Code Talker Memorial and to declare an emergency.

Require active efforts in abuse and neglect proceedings that involve Indian children.

Authorize enrolled tribal members to attend certain institutions of higher education without payment of tuition and mandatory fees.

Transfer the Office of Indian Education to the Department of Education.

Modify provisions pertaining to the voting rights of members of an Indian tribe.

Rename South Scalp Creek Lakeside Use Area in Gregory County.

Require members of the Legislature and staff of the Legislative Research to attend a course on Indian law.

Prohibit school districts from using certain mascots and team names that are derogatory toward Native American peoples or culture.

Establish the nonbeneficiary student scholarship program and make an appropriation therefor.

Incorporate the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings in the social studies curriculum.

Permit the playing of an Honor Song at graduation ceremonies.

Prohibit the imposition of fishing and hunting license fees on members of an Indian Tribe.

Exempt enrolled members of Indian tribes from admission fees, camping permit fees, and park service fees at state parks or recreation areas.

Establish the Commission on Truth and Reconciliation.

Create the Commission on Indian Affairs.

Recognize geographic place names containing the word scalp as offensive.

Include a medical marijuana card issued by a South Dakota tribe in the definition of nonresident cardholder.

Modify the definition of public infrastructure to allow a federally recognized Indian tribe to be eligible for housing infrastructure loans and grants.

Establish parameters for the reimbursement of school districts that provide free or reduced price meals to students.

Revise provisions regarding industrial hemp.

Add dental practices as eligible facilities to participate in the rural health care recruitment assistance program.

Provide an educational exception to consumption prohibitions for persons over eighteen years of age who are required to taste an alcoholic beverage as part of a course.

Make an appropriation to support volunteer fire departments and to declare an emergency.

Make an appropriation to the Department of Health to provide grants to support mental health and suicide prevention programs, and to declare an emergency.

Establish a community paramedic endorsement.

Create the South Dakota Board of Physical Therapy and make an appropriation therefor.

Regulate industrial hemp-derived delta-8 and delta-10 tetrahydrocannabinol products, and other hemp-derived psychoactive compounds, and to declare an emergency.

Prohibit the spouse of a member of the Legislature from being employed as a private lobbyist.

Provide the Department of Health with oversight authority for the provision of emergency medical services.

Establish the task force to address the welfare of Indian children in South Dakota.

Make an appropriation to support the South Dakota Small Business Development Center and the South Dakota Procurement Technical Assistance Center, and to declare an emergency.

Provide for the election of State Brand Board members.

Ensure the proper labeling of American Indian arts and crafts.

Repeal and make technical changes to provisions regarding the Board of Military Affairs.

Provide an exception to the definition of drug paraphernalia.

Make an appropriation to support firefighter training efforts in the state.

Clarify information related to students that is not subject to survey, analysis, or evaluation without consent.

Authorize the Board of Regents to contract for the design and construction of a year-round rodeo practice facility on the campus of South Dakota State University, together with equipment and furnishings, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.

Create provisions for the protection of warehouse distribution center employees.

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