Representative • Democrat

Jennifer Healy Keintz

South Dakota • District HD-001

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Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

83% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 108

Not Voting: 2

Other: 44

Yea: 386

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Jennifer Healy Keintz

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Sponsored Bills

Make an appropriation to the Board of Regents for improving the National Music Museum at the University of South Dakota and to declare an emergency.

Authorize the provision of informed consent by a pregnant minor.

Revise provisions related to courtroom modifications for child witnesses.

Reduce the exempt commercial policyholder aggregate premium requirement.

Create a critical care endorsement for emergency medical technician-paramedics.

Make an appropriation for high performance computing and data storage systems at South Dakota State University and to declare an emergency.

Make an appropriation for the precision agriculture cybersecurity CyberAg partnership initiative and to declare an emergency.

Revise the number of class hours required to obtain a responsible broker's license.

Revise the gross receipts tax on certain food.

Revise provisions regarding municipal zoning of medical cannabis establishments.

Permit the wearing of a beaded graduation cap at a school honoring or graduation ceremony.

Delineate uses for the South Dakota housing opportunity fund.

Establish a fund to assist counties with paying infrastructure expenditures and to declare an emergency.

Make an appropriation to the Department of Game, Fish and Parks to purchase and construct boat cleaning stations, and to declare an emergency.

Make an appropriation for the Liaison for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Office, and to declare an emergency.

Provide a reimbursement schedule for chiropractic, dental, and optometric services under the Medicaid program.

Revise provisions regarding soil health in resource conservation and forestry and conservation districts.

Revise provisions regarding medical cannabis.

Make an appropriation for the planning, renovation, and equipping of the North East Regional Jail Facility in Brown County and to declare an emergency.

Recognize hair discrimination as an unfair or discriminatory practice.

Establish the paraprofessional tuition assistance program, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.

Transfer funds to the South Dakota postsecondary scholarship grant fund for the South Dakota need-based grant program and to declare an emergency.

Increase the South Dakota Opportunity Scholarship award.

Replace the name of Custer State Park.

Prohibit the private funding of National Guard and State Guard active-duty missions.

Require a defendant in a criminal proceeding to be physically present during the reading of victim impact statements.

Reduce the rate of gross receipts tax on certain food.

Exempt members of Indian tribes in South Dakota from hunting and fishing license fees.

Expand the definition of community safety zone in relation to the sex offender registry.

Require the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources to assemble a task force to study the adoption of a watershed ecosystems management approach.

Establish a restaurant meals program as part of the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Provide protections and workplace safety for meat and poultry processing workers.

Establish gestational surrogacy arrangements and agreements.

Create the Office of Ombudsman for State Employees.

Revise provisions related to missing children.

Make an appropriation to the Department of Tribal Relations to support certain children first learning centers that promote the teaching of the Lakota language and to declare an emergency.

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

Make an appropriation to the Department of Tribal Relations to fund the Native American achievement schools grant program.

Revise the penalty for the ingestion of certain controlled substances.

Exempt members of Indian tribes from admission fees, camping permit fees, and park service fees of state parks.

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

Require the playing of an honor song or Lakota Flag Song at certain graduation ceremonies upon student request.

Provide for the appointment of members of the Senate and House of Representatives to the South Dakota Capitol Complex Restoration and Beautification Commission.

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