Senator • Republican

Jessica Castleberry

South Dakota • District SD-035

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

75% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 58

Other: 40

Yea: 674

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Jessica Castleberry

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Provide that a female who undergoes an unlawful abortion may not be held criminally liable.

Prohibit purchasing agencies from contracting with companies owned or controlled by certain foreign entities or governments.

Update references to the Governor, lieutenant governor, and other persons.

Limit parole for violent offenders.

Provide certain definitions related to the crime of rape.

Revise certain provisions regarding the crime of rape and provide a penalty therefor.

Revise provisions related to parental support for expenses related to pregnancy and childbirth.

Revise provisions related to courtroom modifications for child witnesses.

Increase the maximum amount of dollars payable by the state to erect the headstone of a deceased veteran.

Prohibit ranked-choice voting.

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

Expand critical incident stress management to health care facility personnel providing emergency services.

Establish a uniform method for calculating high school credit received from completing postsecondary courses.

Modify the occupation tax for business improvement districts.

Raise the revenue threshold for a required audit of a water development district.

Provide for licensure by endorsement for certain licensed professionals and occupations.

Revise driver's license suspensions for restricted permit holders over the age of sixteen.

Require a percentage of signatures on a petition to initiate a constitutional amendment to be obtained from each legislative district.

Make an appropriation to provide support for an airline terminal infrastructure expansion project at the Rapid City Regional Airport.

Ensure the proper labeling of American Indian arts and crafts.

Exclude township-owned self-propelled machinery, equipment, and vehicles from fuel excise tax.

Authorize other fuel taxes to be included in the state’s International Fuel Tax Agreement collections.

Make an appropriation for pediatric cancer research and resource projects and to declare an emergency.

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

Establish the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States – South Dakota and revise provisions related to the foreign ownership or control of agricultural land.

Require a practitioner's medical assessment of a patient to occur in certain facilities for purposes of medical cannabis use.

Create the Center for American Exceptionalism at Black Hills State University, make an appropriation therefor, and declare an emergency.

Prohibit certain persons from using the title veterinary technician.

Lower the state sales tax rate and the state use tax rate on food to zero percent.

Make an exemption from certain property taxation for owner-occupied single-family dwellings.

Establish provisions related to the review and selection of instructional materials in school districts.

Create the South Dakota paid family leave program.

Expand the provision of online education through the South Dakota Virtual School.

Provide a voucher for students enrolled in certain grade levels at accredited nonpublic schools.

Provide liability for the publishing or distributing of material harmful to minors on the internet and the wrongful retention of individually identifiable information.

Establish the crime of grooming and provide a penalty therefor.

Prohibit the dissemination of obscene material to minors in a public school or public library.

Establish the stronger families scholarship program for children in foster care, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.

Prohibit certain restrictive employment contracts.

Prohibit eligibility for a suspended imposition of sentence for certain rape offenses.

Transfer a property tax relief program, to change income requirements for certain property tax relief programs, and to index certain income schedules to inflation.

Revise the classification of owner-occupied single-family dwellings to include more than one attached or unattached garage.

Codify the fundamental right of a parent.

Clarify and modify requirements related to the medical cannabis program.

Establish the burden of proof after a claim of immunity.

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