Representative • Republican

Mellissa Heermann

South Dakota • District HD-007

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Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

94% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 156

Other: 2

Yea: 1014

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Mellissa Heermann

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Update and repeal provisions related to the reporting of hospital charge information.

Provide permissible dates for municipal and school district elections.

Require an individual be registered as a voter of this state before being eligible to be a petition sponsor for a ballot measure.

Clarify the meaning of teleconference for purposes of open meeting requirements.

Provide an exception for employers to acquire and distribute opioid antagonists that are available over the counter.

Clarify which opinions must be included in the annual judicial opinions report prepared by the Legislative Research Council.

Make an appropriation for purchasing, storing, and distributing sexual assault kits.

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

Make an appropriation for a student teacher stipend grant program.

Permit a court to order family therapy or reunification therapy in a custody or visitation dispute.

Allow the governing body of a municipality to change the use of municipally owned parkland by ordinance.

Regulate vapor products and to provide a penalty therefor.

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

Revise passenger limits for holders of restricted minor's driving permits.

Require the publication and review of an explanation of the open meeting laws of this state.

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.

Require the creation of an informational video and other materials describing the state's abortion law and medical care for a pregnant woman experiencing life-threatening or health-threatening medical conditions.

Make an appropriation for grants to assisted living centers and nursing facilities for costs related to telemedicine.

Revise and repeal provisions related to the licensure of athletic trainers.

Revise and repeal provisions related to threatening persons holding statewide office, judicial officers, and elected officers and to provide a penalty therefor.

Improve technology equipment for providers of elderly care and to make an appropriation therefor.

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

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

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

Require the publication of measures taken to restrict the access of obscene materials by minors.

Provide that a temporary restraining order may extend beyond thirty days in certain circumstances involving stalking.

Revise certain provisions pertaining to time of school district elections.

Modify the time before which rural access infrastructure grant moneys must be expended or obligated.

Require the Department of Social Services to conduct a state-wide study on child care, to provide an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.

Prohibit a practitioner from referring a patient to a medical cannabis clinic with which the practitioner or an immediate family member has a financial relationship and to provide a penalty therefor.

Revise a provision related to threatening law enforcement officers.

Prohibit the use of a deepfake to influence an election and to provide a penalty therefor.

Designate Medal of Honor Recognition Day.

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