Representative • Republican

Karla Lems

South Dakota • District HD-016

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

93% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 273

Other: 6

Yea: 919

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Karla Lems

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Modify the signature requirement for a petition to initiate a constitutional amendment.

Amend the deadline for filing a petition to initiate a measure or constitutional amendment.

Amend provisions pertaining to the maintenance and publication of the statewide voter registration file.

Revise the subpoena powers of the Government Operations and Audit Committee.

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

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

Prohibit the expenditure of certain funds appropriated for purposes related to the construction of a prison facility.

Require an environmental impact statement from applicants seeking a carbon dioxide transmission facility permit from the Public Utilities Commission of the State of South Dakota.

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

Establish the Incarceration Task Force.

Subject advertising services to a gross receipts tax, and to allocate proceeds to property tax relief.

Require legislative approval of real property leases that are necessary for the operation of state government and exceed specified durations or rental payments.

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

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

Prohibit the Board of Regents or any institution under its control from using state resources for obscene live conduct.

Revise and repeal provisions related to forcible entry and detainer.

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

Provide for the payment of legal expenses originating from crime committed at a facility maintained by the Department of Corrections.

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

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

Expand permission on installing electric wiring in a residence.

Clarify references to the court in a condemnation proceeding.

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

Revise certain provisions pertaining to time of school district elections.

Provide a rebuttable presumption in favor of joint physical custody of a minor child.

Require a zoning authority to determine that a well is an established well that has not been abandoned in making a permitting decision.

Require legislative approval for the purchase of real property by the Department of Game, Fish and Parks.

Extend deadlines for action by the Public Utilities Commission upon the request of any party.

Modify the amount of time allowed to an employee to vote at any election in this state.

Require a school board to hold a bond election at a primary or school general election.

Require an official declaration of war or other Congressional action before the South Dakota National Guard may be deployed by the federal government.

Permit an individual to change enrollment in a medicare supplement policy.

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

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

Provide that required siting permits be filed with condemnation petitions.

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