Senator • Republican

Jim Bolin

South Dakota • District SD-016

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

80% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 148

Not Voting: 1

Other: 21

Yea: 1071

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Jim Bolin

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Repeal the Midwestern Regional Higher Education Compact.

Revise water development district boundaries.

Revise provisions regarding the 911 emergency surcharge.

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

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

Provide permissive authority to a governing body of a municipality or county to deny reissuance of an on-sale license not actively used.

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

Revise provisions pertaining to voter registration requirements and the state board of elections.

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.

Recognize students as Rushmore State Athletes upon demonstrating prescribed levels of physical fitness.

Require certain vehicles to be equipped with mud flaps.

Create the indigent legal services fund, to provide ongoing revenue therefor, and to make an appropriation therefor.

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

Revise provisions regarding the alcohol beverage fund.

Provide for the disbursement of the catastrophic county poor relief fund to the participating counties in the event of the discontinuance of the fund.

Permit the display of campaign signs in municipalities in conjunction with the beginning of absentee voting.

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

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

Revise provisions regarding township contracts for snow removal.

Extend the length of time allowed for a tax agreement with an Indian tribe.

Prohibit a ban of combustion engines.

Create term limits for public utilities commissioners.

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

Increase the dollar amount of South Dakota opportunity scholarships.

Prohibit ranked-choice voting.

Revise the qualifications to be a member of a county recount board.

Require candidates for party precinct committeeman or committeewoman to include an email address and phone number in the written statement submitted to the county auditor.

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

Modify provisions for a statewide runoff election.

Establish the stronger families scholarship program for children in foster care, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.

Revise provisions related to juror compensation.

Revise certain provisions related to mileage reimbursement.

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

Allow for the appointment of county coroner by all counties.

Create term limits for future public utilities commissioners.

Remove the option to register to vote by a signed statement.

Prohibit certain medical and surgical interventions on minor patients.

Prohibit the state from using federal funds for state highway maps.

Facilitate the process of establishing election precincts and polling places by counties.

Waive the fee for nondriver identification cards for individuals at or below the federal poverty level.

Prohibit deceptive practices in the advertising and sale of food products as meat and poultry.

Prohibit private funding of election costs except for gifts of a nominal and intrinsic value.

Revise provisions regarding the Teacher Compensation Review Board.

Make an appropriation for the design, renovation, and construction of a multi-purpose facility at the Cottonwood Field Station and to declare an emergency.

Revise the freeze on assessments for dwellings of disabled and senior citizens.

Provide for certain permissible dates for municipal and school district elections.

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