Senator • Republican

Brent Hoffman

South Dakota • District SD-009

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

86% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 165

Not Voting: 2

Other: 4

Yea: 724

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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.

Expand certain privileges for individuals who hold an unrestricted enhanced concealed carry permit.

Provide authority for a court to order offenders convicted of vehicular homicide to pay restitution to a victim's children until age eighteen.

Require a comparison of reemployment assistance recipients against death records for reemployment assistance eligibility integrity.

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.

Reduce the notice requirement period to terminate a tenancy at will.

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

Remove a prohibition on the ability of law enforcement and various governmental entities to inspect, search, seize, prosecute, or impose disciplinary action on cannabis dispensaries, cultivation facilities, manufacturing facilities, and testing facilities.

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

Require the consideration of the definition of antisemitism when investigating unfair or discriminatory practices.

Revise a provision providing authority to the Governor to enter into agreements with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Require that a notification of medical cannabis certification be provided to a patient's primary or referring practitioner.

Exclude certain crimes from presumptive probation.

Exclude certain habitual DUI offenders from eligibility for presumptive probation.

Require a convicted defendant to reimburse the cost of digital forensic examination fees.

Further limit applications for clemency for violent crime offenders sentenced to life imprisonment.

Place restrictions on the ownership of agricultural land.

Amend provisions pertaining to the partners in education tax credit program.

Enhance the penalty for accessory to first- or second-degree murder.

Enhance the penalty for rape of a child twelve years of age or under.

Designate Medal of Honor Recognition Day.

Provide that certain personal information of a lottery prize winner may only be used for advertising or promotion with the winner's consent.

Allow a city or county to impose local restrictions and regulations on video lottery.

Increase oversight of pool arrangements.

Prohibit a homeowners' association from placing restrictions on firearms or firearm ammunition.

Extend the period of renewal for an enhanced permit to carry a concealed pistol.

Limit annual valuation increases on owner-occupied single-family dwellings.

Revise the water resources projects list.

Standardize certain school safety practices.

Establish the crime of exposure of a law enforcement officer to a controlled drug or substance and to provide a penalty therefor.

Revise provisions related to driving under the influence.

Establish reentry initiatives and programs in the Department of Corrections.

Revise provisions relating to the possession, manufacture, and distribution of child pornography.

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

Create term limits for public utilities commissioners.

Establish and modify provisions related to school safety.

Prohibit a ban of fuel gas appliances used by consumers.

Provide a penalty for the expenditure of public funds to influence the outcome of an election.

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

Make an appropriation to the Office of the Secretary of State for voter roll maintenance, ballot machines, and election security.

Establish mandatory sentences for certain driving while under the influence violations.

Limit parole for violent offenders.

Establish post-election audits.

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