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2011 Legislative Updates and Action Items
2011 Legislation to WATCH!
| PRIORITY | BILL | TITLE | LINK | STATUS |
| 1 - Support and Lobby | HB 1217 | Establish certain legislative findings pertaining to the decision of a pregnant mother considering termination of her relationship with her child by an abortion, to establish certain procedures to better insure that such decisions are voluntary, uncoerced, and informed, and to revise certain causes of action for professional negligence relating to performance of an abortion. | LINK | Passed Seante Health and Human Services 6-1 Grassroots Resources |
| 1 - Support and Lobby | HB 1255 | Provide for the award of joint physical custody of children under certain circumstances. | LINK | Passed House 53-16. Senate Health 3/2 |
| 1 - Support and Lobby | SB 176 | Provide for the crime of human trafficking, to establish the elements and degrees of the crime, and to provide penalties for the violation thereof. | LINK | Passed Senate 35-0 House Judiciary 3/2 |
| 2 - Support | SB 65 | Allow nonpublic schools accredited by certain accrediting agencies other than the Department of Education to become members of the South Dakota High School Activities Association. | LINK | Passed Senate 33-1 to House Ed. 3/2 |
| 3 - Public Interest Only | HB 1165 | Establish certain legislative findings, to prohibit the enforcement of certain federal health care laws, and to provide a penalty therefor. | LINK | 41st Day 13-0 |
| 3 - Public Interest Only | SB 114 | Provide that parties to a divorce or separate maintenance action be restrained from making changes to insurance coverage. | LINK | Senate 33-0; House Judiciary 9-0 |
| 3 - Public Interest Only | SB 156 | Prohibit the employment of unauthorized aliens, to criminalize the knowing transportation, concealment, or solicitation of unauthorized aliens, and to provide penalties therefor. | LINK | Seante 23-12; House State Affairs |
| 3 - Public Interest Only | SB 71 | Prohibit the use of certain handheld electronic wireless devices for electronic messaging while driving. | LINK | Passed 26-9; to House Local Government |
| DEAD | HB 1061 | Provide for the practice and regulation of registered midwives. | LINK | 41st Day 5-2 |
| DEAD | HB 1088 | Make certain legislative findings concerning the constitutionality of certain federal health care laws. | LINK | 41st Day 13-0 |
| DEAD | HB 1142 | Repeal certain tort liability arising out of causes of action based on seduction, abduction, and alienation of affections. | LINK | 41st Day 7-5 |
| DEAD | HB 1151 | Provide procedures by which adopted persons may obtain their original birth certificates. | LINK | 41st Day 8-4 |
| DEAD | HB 1170 | Require schools to provide instruction on certain historical documents and speeches. | LINK | 41st Day. 12-0 |
| DEAD | HB 1191 | Authorize school district boards to provide licensed day care facilities on or off school district property. | LINK | 41st Day 12-0 |
| DEAD | HB 1199 | Provide for a compact concerning citizenship. | LINK | 41st Day 8-5 |
| DEAD | HB 1218 | Prohibit surrogate mother contracts, to prohibit enforcement of such arrangements, and to establish standards to award custody of children born as a result of such arrangements. | LINK | 41st Day 9-4 |
| DEAD | SB 104 | Require each school district to develop a policy to prohibit bullying that meets certain requirements. | LINK | 41st Day 4-3 |
| DEAD | SB 115 | Prohibit the use of certain wireless communication devices while driving. | LINK | 41st Day 6-1 |
| DEAD | SB 117 | Provide for certain restrictions for the use of tanning devices by minors. | LINK | 41st Day 5-2 |
| DEAD | SB 128 | Require the Commission of Human Rights to meet no less than annually. | LINK | 41st Day 6-1 |
| DEAD | SB 161 | Prohibit certain unfair or discriminatory practices based on age and veteran or military status. | LINK | Senate Killed 25-9 |
| Governor Signature | HB 1133 | Revise certain provisions relating to certain forms used to excuse a child from school. | LINK | Passed House Floor 63-4; Senate 33-0 |
| Governor Signature | SB 22 | Provide for the regulation and licensure of birth centers. | LINK | Seante 28-6 to House 64-3 |
| TABLED | HB 1012 | Change the terminology for mental retard, mentally retarded, mental retardation, and other similar terms in statute and to provide for the change in printed materials and signage. | LINK | Tabled 12-0 |
| TABLED | HB 1171 | Provide that the use of force by a pregnant woman for the protection of her unborn child is an affirmative defense to prosecutions for certain crimes. | LINK | House Tables 63-4 |
| TABLED | SB 138 | Enact the agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote. | LINK | Tabled 9-0 |
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