Representative • Republican

Chris Kassin

South Dakota • District HD-017

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 107

Other: 35

Yea: 1051

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Chris Kassin

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Modify practice criteria for physician assistants.

Reduce the amount of net receipts of unclaimed property deposited into the general fund.

Modify laws regarding school bus safety and to provide a penalty therefor.

Make an appropriation for a student teacher stipend grant program.

Permit the operation of a Class I electric bicycle on the Mickelson Trail.

Make an appropriation to the Department of Revenue for distribution to county rural access infrastructure funds and to declare an emergency.

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

Revise the provisions for preparing a fiscal note for ballot questions.

Prohibit the preparation, sale, and distribution of certain kratom products and to provide a penalty therefor.

Create the McCook Lake contingency fund and to transfer moneys to the fund.

Create a one-year career and technical education instructor educator permit.

Expand eligibility for the reduced tuition benefit for certain school district and Head Start employees at Board of Regents institutions to school counselors.

Change the eligibility requirements, and the exempt value, of a property tax relief program for disabled veterans and surviving spouses.

Repeal the session law authorizing the Board of Regents to contract for the design and construction of a new dairy research and extension farm on the campus of South Dakota State University, and to declare an emergency.

Revise the process for nominating candidates for the offices of lieutenant governor, attorney general, and secretary of state.

Keep interest earned on incarceration construction fund moneys in the same fund.

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

Provide an appropriation for the replacement of pipes for the McCook Lake pumping system.

Revise the water resources projects list.

Revise the compensation for an improvement district board member.

Require administration of the ACT to public school students in grade eleven.

Make an appropriation to support volunteer fire departments and to declare an emergency.

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

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

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.

Create the South Dakota Board of Physical Therapy and make an appropriation therefor.

Modify the limit of consecutive terms for members of the Board of Technical Education.

Modify provisions for a statewide runoff election.

Make an appropriation for the restoration, maintenance, and repair of the state capitol and to declare an emergency.

Make an appropriation to support the South Dakota Small Business Development Center and the South Dakota Procurement Technical Assistance Center, and to declare an emergency.

Repeal the requirement for an annual report by the Board of Regents regarding intellectual diversity and the free exchange of ideas

Modify practice criteria for physician assistants.

Require property owner consent before construction resulting in lake water level alteration.

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