Representative • Republican

Bethany Soye

South Dakota • District HD-009

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Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

83% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 428

Not Voting: 1

Other: 62

Yea: 1370

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Bethany Soye

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Revise certain provisions related to the restriction of access to obscene materials in a public library or public school library.

Address the imposition of firearm restrictions on certain employees, officers, volunteers, and other individuals.

Amend provisions pertaining to the process by which the qualifications of a registered voter are verified.

Prohibit a health care provider from restricting or denying a parent or guardian's access to certain medical records and other health information of a minor.

Revise provisions on interim transfers and appropriations.

Reduce a limit on the annual increases of property tax revenues payable to certain taxing districts, and to subject school districts to a limit on property taxes collected in a year.

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

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

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

Provide for the revision and eventual repeal of the employer's investment in South Dakota's future fee.

To require age verification before an individual may access an application from an online application store.

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

Provide that public moneys for education may not be used for lobbying purposes.

Require an ownership disclosure for any non-individual entity that exercises eminent domain.

Establish education savings accounts.

Provide a process to withdraw a signature from a petition for an initiated measure, constitutional amendment, or a referendum on a law in certain situations and to declare an emergency.

Make an appropriation to provide a grant for the construction of a facility to provide certain health facilities and services.

Increase the annual limit of tax credits that an insurance company may claim through the partners in education tax credit program.

Require the Executive Board of the Legislative Research Council to establish an interim study committee on minors' access to pornographic material.

Prohibit the dissemination of incorrect or misleading ballot information and to provide a penalty therefor.

Prohibit the exercise of eminent domain for the construction of pipelines carrying carbon oxide.

Repeal certain provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code.

Provide for the creation and use of South Dakota educational empowerment accounts.

Create the local assistance fund and to provide for the transfer of certain unobligated cash balances.

Establish public use criteria for purposes of condemnation proceedings.

Require property owner permission or a siting permit prior to entry for an examination and survey.

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

Modify the observation of time in South Dakota.

Reduce certain gross receipts tax rates and a use tax rate, and to repeal a conditional reduction of certain gross receipts tax rates.

Prohibit the use of state resources in hosting lewd or lascivious content.

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

Provide a conscience exemption from a COVID-19 vaccination.

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