Senator • Democrat

Red Foster

South Dakota • District SD-027

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Activity Summary

Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 262

Not Voting: 6

Other: 246

Yea: 1147

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Sponsored Bills

SD SB143•Passed

Modify the composition and staffing requirements of the South Dakota-Ireland Trade Commission.

Co-Sponsor

SD SB70•Passed

Modify the maximum sparsity benefit a sparse school district is eligible to receive.

Co-Sponsor

SD SB170•Passed

Authorize the South Dakota State Brand Board to enter a memorandum of understanding with any Indian tribe for the investigation of cattle theft.

Primary Sponsor

SD SB83•Passed

Revise the penalty and provide treatment for the ingestion of certain controlled substances.

Co-Sponsor

SD HB1052•Passed

Prohibit the exercise of eminent domain for a pipeline that carries carbon oxide.

Co-Sponsor

SD HB1044•Passed

Authorize the use of a newborn safety device for the voluntary surrender of a newborn and to make clarifying changes.

Co-Sponsor

SD HB1200•Engrossed

Permit merit pay as a component of teacher compensation.

Co-Sponsor

SD HB1053•Passed

Require age verification by websites containing material that is harmful to minors, and to provide a penalty therefor.

Co-Sponsor

SD SB124•Introduced

Establish the Incarceration Task Force.

Co-Sponsor

SD SB81•Passed

Prohibit the use of a firearms code for transactions involving firearms, accessories, components, and ammunition and to provide a civil penalty therefor.

Co-Sponsor

SD SB199•Introduced

Support the betterment of South Dakota.

Primary Sponsor

SD HB1229•Introduced

Provide an exemption from certain property taxation for owner-occupied single-family dwellings, and to limit the taxes due on property over the previous year.

Co-Sponsor

SD HB1119•Introduced

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

Co-Sponsor

SD HB1110•Introduced

Make an appropriation to the South Dakota Board of Technical Education to provide a grant to Southeast Technical College for the purchase of the healthcare simulation center.

Co-Sponsor

SD HB1109•Engrossed

Prohibit the manufacture, sale, or distribution of cell-cultured meat in this state, and to provide a penalty therefor.

Co-Sponsor

SD SB213•Introduced

Exempt any food grown, raised, or otherwise produced in this state from state sales tax.

Primary Sponsor

SD HB1207•Introduced

Revise and repeal provisions related to rape in the first degree and to provide a penalty therefor.

Primary Sponsor

SD HB1262•Introduced

Terminate bounty payments for nest predators, transfer moneys to the general fund, and declare an emergency.

Co-Sponsor

SD SB18•Introduced

Require age verification by websites containing material that is harmful to minors, and to provide a penalty therefor.

Co-Sponsor

SD HB1258•Introduced

Subject lithium mining operations to certain provisions regarding permitting, annual reporting, disturbed land limitations, and mined land reclamation.

Co-Sponsor

SD HB1181•Introduced

Require a school district to provide dyslexia screening.

Co-Sponsor

SD SB10•Passed

Shorten the time before records of a Governor or a lieutenant governor are opened to the public.

Co-Sponsor

SD HB1017•Introduced

Require the acceptance of a cash payment for admission to a school-affiliated event.

Co-Sponsor

SD HB1048•Introduced

Require that cash be accepted for certain transactions.

Co-Sponsor

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