Representative • Republican

Tamara St John

South Dakota • District HD-001

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 98

Not Voting: 2

Other: 151

Yea: 1114

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Tamara St John

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Define a multi-passenger quadricycle and to provide for the regulation of multi-passenger quadricycles.

Prohibit the chemical modification or conversion of industrial hemp and the sale or distribution of chemically modified or converted industrial hemp and to provide a penalty therefor.

Provide free birth certificates to persons experiencing homelessness.

Create the Indian Child Welfare Advisory Council.

Provide that a temporary restraining order may extend beyond thirty days in certain circumstances involving stalking.

Create a habitat conservation specialty plate and emblem.

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

Designate Medal of Honor Recognition Day.

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.

Modify provisions pertaining to the designation of a legal newspaper.

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

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

Extend the length of time allowed for a tax agreement with an Indian tribe.

Establish the crime of possession of a weapon or tools with intent to commit theft and to provide a penalty therefor.

Prohibit discrimination based on military status.

Establish provisions related to the reimbursement of doula services through the state Medicaid program.

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

Modify provisions pertaining to the testing of automatic tabulating equipment.

Modify the composition of the State-Tribal Relations Committee.

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

Make an appropriation to the Department of Human Services for the development and expansion of adult day services programs and to declare an emergency.

Establish a community paramedic endorsement.

Increase the dollar amount of South Dakota opportunity scholarships.

Make an appropriation to expand laboratory space at the Sanford Underground Research Facility and to declare an emergency.

Make an appropriation for improving the buildings and grounds of the capitol complex and declare an emergency.

Authorize employers to acquire and make available opioid antagonists.

Ensure the proper labeling of American Indian arts and crafts.

Allow for the appointment of county coroner by all counties.

Provide an exception to the definition of drug paraphernalia.

Provide a rebuttable presumption in favor of joint physical custody of a minor child.

Enact the Uniform Electronic Recordation of Custodial Interrogations Act.

Require the POW/MIA flag be displayed in the Senate and House of Representative chambers.

Establish a means for certain Department of Corrections inmates to earn credit against fines or costs ordered by the sentencing court.

Revise provisions related to counseling for domestic abuse defendants.

Revise the automatic removal of certain convictions from a background check record.

Provide for ticket-in, ticket-out video lottery.

Prohibit forms of discrimination in access to organ transplantation.

Make an appropriation to support the teen court grant program and to declare an emergency.

Revise provisions related to courtroom modifications for child witnesses.

Revise provisions related to the video recording of certain victim testimony at a preliminary hearing or deposition.

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