Senator • Democrat

Reynold Nesiba

South Dakota • District SD-015

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 223

Not Voting: 1

Other: 48

Yea: 998

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Reynold Nesiba

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Provide authority for a court to order offenders convicted of vehicular homicide to pay restitution to a victim's children until age eighteen.

Create the South Dakota-Ireland Trade Commission.

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

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

Expand the scope of a physician wellness program and to declare an emergency.

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.

Provide for the payment of legal expenses originating from crime committed at a facility maintained by the Department of Corrections.

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

Revise provisions regarding industrial hemp.

Modify certain requirements for eligibility to receive a gift of a museum collection from a county or municipality.

Establish educational standards for the expanded practice of optometry.

Revise provisions pertaining to voter registration requirements and the state board of elections.

Require the Department of Social Services to conduct a state-wide study on child care, to provide an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.

Require the Department of Social Services and the Department of Education to apply for and administer the summer electronic benefit transfer for children program and to make an appropriation therefor.

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

Prohibit the use of a deepfake to influence an election and to provide a penalty therefor.

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

Prohibit an employer from withholding compensation from an employee who quits without notice.

Restrict the power of eminent domain to a utility used for a public purpose.

Require the placement of informational signs explaining works of art accepted by the state and displayed at a rest area or facility operated by the Department of Transportation.

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

Establish an individual's right to make autonomous decisions about the individual's reproductive health care, and to repeal provisions related to abortion.

Create requirements for the disclosure of certain information relating to health care sharing arrangements.

Impose a reporting requirement regarding a lost or stolen firearm and to provide a penalty therefor.

Exempt one motor vehicle of a debtor from being taken by legal process.

Establish a civil action for nonconsensual condom removal.

Define and require active efforts for purposes of preserving and reuniting families following instances of abuse or neglect.

Modify provisions related to prohibited medical interventions on minors.

Require the consideration of certain definitions when investigating unfair or discriminatory practices.

Prohibit cost sharing in certain health insurance policies for diagnostic and supplemental breast imaging examinations.

Require free voice communication services for correctional inmates and to make an appropriation therefor.

Create provisions for the protection of warehouse distribution center employees.

Recognize hair discrimination as an unfair or discriminatory practice for employment.

Modify the amount of time to report an injury for workers' compensation.

Revise the membership of the South Dakota Capitol Complex Restoration and Beautification Commission.

Lower the state sales tax rate and the state use tax rate on food to zero percent, and to increase certain gross receipts tax rates, excise tax rates, and use tax rates.

Increase the state minimum wage.

Provisionally repeal capital punishment.

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