Kyle Schoenfish

Voted for House Bill 1099, which took an approved psilocybin medicine out of the state's most restricted drug list. Psilocybin is the active compound in some mushrooms and sits in Schedule I, the list for drugs with no accepted medical use. The act carves out the crystalline form used in a drug product approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration, so an approved medicine can be prescribed. Psilocybin in every other form stays in Schedule I. The bill was not amended. The South Dakota Senate vote was 21-12. The Governor signed it on March 10, 2026.

March 2, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 211, which would have ended surprise bills from ambulances outside a patient's insurance network. An ambulance service outside a patient's insurance network could not have billed the patient for emergency care beyond the plan's normal copayment, coinsurance or deductible. The insurer would have had to pay the ambulance at least the rate set by the local government where the trip began. The rule would not have reached self-funded employer plans, Medicaid or Medicare. The South Dakota Senate voted 17-16 for it, but it failed because a bill needs 18 votes, a majority of all 35 members. The bill did not become law.

February 24, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 1220, which set up state licensing for sellers of nicotine products. The act writes a new chapter covering vapes and other nicotine products that are not cigarettes or tobacco, including nicotine pouches and anything made with a substance built to act like nicotine. Anyone selling these to retailers must hold a state distributor license, one for each place of business, at a fee of $1,000, and must hold a sales tax license and be current on state and local taxes. Distributors and wholesalers already licensed under the cigarette and tobacco law do not need the new license. Each shipment made in breach of the chapter counts as its own violation, and the penalties come on top of any other law. The South Dakota Senate vote was 27-7. The Governor signed it on March 30, 2026.

March 5, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 150, which would have raised how much personal property a debtor can keep from creditors. The bill began as a protection for one motor vehicle, but the Senate replaced its text before voting. As voted, a debtor could have shielded personal property worth up to twelve thousand dollars from seizure if the head of a family, up from seven thousand, and up to ten thousand dollars otherwise, up from five thousand. The South Dakota Senate rejected it, 15-19. The bill did not become law.

February 19, 2026Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for Senate Bill 67, which would have created a state office of apprenticeship. An apprenticeship pays a worker while they learn a trade on the job. The office would have sat inside the Department of Labor and Regulation as the state's sole apprenticeship agency, setting standards for registered programs, adopting an equal employment opportunity plan and resolving disputes between an apprentice and an employer. South Dakota currently leaves that work to the federal Department of Labor. The South Dakota Senate rejected it, 14-21. The bill did not become law.

February 3, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for Senate Bill 62, which made state employees report suspected fraud, theft and conflicts of interest. A state employee who has reasonable cause to suspect improper government conduct or a job-related felony must report it. Improper conduct means a conflict of interest banned by state law, fraud, or felony theft of public money or property. A report made in good faith is protected, and an employer may not retaliate by firing, suspending, demoting, transferring, cutting pay or imposing an unfavorable schedule. The South Dakota Senate vote was 20-14. This was the Senate vote agreeing to the House version, which is the text that became law. The Governor signed it on March 13, 2025.

March 5, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted for Senate Bill 12, which capped loans to a candidate at the same limit as donations. A candidate or political committee may not take a loan from someone if the loan, or the loan plus that person's donations, goes over the donation limit already in law. A loan counts toward what that person may give. The House added a separate cap on transfers from a candidate's federal committee and then took it back out, so both chambers voted on the same loan rule. The South Dakota Senate vote was 21-13. The Governor signed it on February 19, 2025.

January 23, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Was a lead sponsor of a South Dakota law adding a new path to a certified public accountant license: a bachelor's degree plus two years of accounting work, instead of 30 extra college credits. The governor signed it in March 2026 (House Bill 1035).

January 13, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted for Senate Bill 118, which would have put at least a hundred million dollars a year into a fund to cut homeowners' property taxes. Each January the state treasurer would have had to deposit into the homeowner tax reduction fund the greater of one hundred million dollars or a set percentage of the previous year's sales tax, use tax, contractor's excise tax and a related tax. The fund itself would have been created by a separate bill, Senate Bill 125, and no money could have moved unless that bill also became law; the House later tabled it. The South Dakota Senate rejected it, 16-17. The bill did not become law.

February 24, 2026Supports Cost of Living Reduction

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Voted for House Bill 1227, which doubled the yearly fee on electric cars. The owner of an electric car pays an extra fee each year at registration, on top of the ordinary license fee. The act raises that fee from $50 to $100. It applies to a noncommercial vehicle whose only power source is a battery that charges from an outside supply. Electric motorcycles are not covered. The South Dakota Senate vote was 24-10. The Governor signed it on February 26, 2026.

February 19, 2026Opposes Cost of Living Reduction

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Sponsored HB 1213 to appropriate funds for a statewide educator-retention initiative.

January 29, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for Senate Bill 2, which paid for a new state prison in Minnehaha County. The act appropriates $650 million for buying the land and building a men's prison, and moves $78.8 million into the fund that pays for it. The Department of Corrections may buy the site and trade away two quarter sections the state owns in Lincoln County. Each construction package must be bid publicly on the state website. Money not spent by June 30, 2032 goes back. The South Dakota Senate vote was 24-11. This was the only bill passed at the September 2025 special session. The Governor signed it on September 23, 2025.

September 23, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for House Bill 1094, which raised the penalty for illegally passing a school bus. Passing a school bus that has its red lights flashing moves from a Class 2 misdemeanor to a Class 1 misdemeanor, the more serious of the two. The act also says that if a school bus carries an outside video camera, the recording can be requested in a lawsuit and used as evidence in a civil or criminal case. No school district or bus company has to install a camera. The South Dakota Senate vote was 27-8. The Governor signed it on March 13, 2025.

March 3, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 83, which made a first drug ingestion offense a misdemeanor instead of a felony. South Dakota punishes having a controlled drug in the body, not just holding it. Under the old law that was a Class 5 felony for a Schedule I or II drug and a Class 6 felony for Schedule III or IV. The act makes a first and a second offense a Class 1 misdemeanor. The court must order a drug and alcohol evaluation and supervised probation using evidence-based practices, and may add up to a year in jail on a second offense. A third offense within ten years of the first conviction is a Class 6 felony. The South Dakota Senate vote was 18-17. The Governor signed it on March 13, 2025.

February 6, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 76, which let the housing infrastructure fund lend money for airports. The South Dakota housing infrastructure fund exists to pay for public works that support housing projects. The act lets the housing authority lend from that fund for airport infrastructure as well, and requires it to write rules setting how such a loan is applied for, approved and paid out. The South Dakota Senate vote was 22-11. The Governor signed it on March 30, 2026.

February 23, 2026Opposes Housing Affordability

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Lead sponsor of a bill raising the most that can be played on a video lottery machine from two dollars to five and creating a state fund to cut property taxes on owner-occupied homes (Senate Bill 226). A Senate committee shelved it for the year.

February 4, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 1082, which made school meals free for students who qualified for reduced-price meals. A school board may no longer charge a student who qualifies for reduced-price meals under the federal school lunch or breakfast program. The state reimburses districts for those meals. Each year the Department of Education works out what each district is owed, based on what the district reports, after subtracting the federal money it already receives. Boards may still charge other students, staff and visitors. The South Dakota Senate vote was 20-14. The Governor signed it on March 30, 2026.

March 9, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for Senate Bill 126, which would have raised the property tax exemption for totally disabled veterans. A veteran rated permanently and totally disabled from a service-connected disability does not pay property tax on the first two hundred thousand dollars of the full value of the home they own and live in. The bill would have raised that exemption to three hundred thousand dollars. The South Dakota Senate rejected it, 14-20. The bill did not become law.

February 20, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for House Bill 1132, which would have let child care workers qualify for child care assistance. The child care assistance program helps families pay for day care, and eligibility turns on household income. The Department of Social Services would have ignored all of that income for an applicant who worked at least thirty hours a week in child care. The qualifying workplaces were a licensed day care center, a group family day care home, a registered family day care home, or a licensed before and after school program. The household still had to be under three times the federal poverty level. The South Dakota Senate passed it, 20-14. The Governor vetoed the bill and the veto was not overridden, so it did not become law.

March 4, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for Senate Bill 106, which raised the money held back for costly special education cases. Each year the Department of Education holds back part of the special education appropriation to cover extraordinary costs of teaching a child with disabilities. That set-aside had been $4 million a year since 2014. The act raises it to $5 million from July 1, 2026. Unspent money still carries over, and the total held in reserve may not exceed $5.5 million. An oversight board still reviews districts' requests and the secretary still approves them. The South Dakota Senate vote was 20-11. The Governor signed it on March 30, 2026.

March 10, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for House Bill 1130, which let a school district pay its property insurance premiums from its capital outlay fund. The capital outlay fund is raised by its own property tax levy and pays for land, buildings, grounds and equipment. It could already cover up to fifteen percent of a student transportation contract or mileage reimbursement, textbooks, instructional software and warranties on capital assets. The act rewrites that list as numbered items and adds one new use: premiums on a property insurance policy the district holds. The South Dakota Senate vote was 24-9. The Governor signed it on March 04, 2026.

February 25, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Sponsored HB 1213 to appropriate funds for a statewide educator-retention initiative.

January 29, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for House Bill 1092, which paid for stipends for student teachers. The act puts $500,000 from the general fund into grants for school districts and accredited schools that host student teachers. A grant may not be more than $5,000 per school district or accredited school, and the money must go to the student teachers placed there. The Department of Education may keep up to five percent to run the program. The South Dakota Senate vote was 25-10. The Governor signed it on March 13, 2025.

February 27, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for House Bill 1062, which opened up and expanded the county voter registration file. Each county auditor must now keep a digital master file that also records every absentee ballot application, the address on it, and when the ballot was asked for and returned. The file must be open to the public free of charge, without Social Security numbers, license numbers or dates of birth. Auditors must save a snapshot the day before each primary and general election and keep five years of history. The South Dakota Senate vote was 20-12. The Governor signed it on March 31, 2025.

March 10, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for Senate Bill 198, which would have made a company try mediation before it could condemn private land. Condemnation is the court process by which a company or government takes private land for public use and a jury sets the price. The bill would have barred filing that petition until the taker had first met a set of conditions, beginning with good faith mediation with the affected landowner aimed at reaching an agreement. The South Dakota Senate passed it, 18-17. A South Dakota House committee killed it, so the full House never voted on it and the bill did not become law.

February 24, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 156, which would have set eighteen as the minimum age to marry. South Dakota lets a sixteen or seventeen year old marry if a parent or guardian files a notarized statement of consent. The bill would have repealed that route and the parental consent provisions behind it, leaving eighteen as the floor. Solemnizing a marriage while knowing a party is under the age of legal consent would have stayed a Class 1 misdemeanor. The South Dakota Senate rejected it, 16-19. The bill did not become law.

February 18, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 1138, which would have required agencies that send aides into people's homes to be licensed. A non-medical home care agency sends aides to help adults with bathing, dressing, eating and other daily tasks so they can stay at home. Each agency would have needed a Department of Health license, and running one without it would have been a misdemeanor. Aides would have needed eight hours of training including dementia care and a criminal background check, and agencies would have carried liability insurance of at least two hundred fifty thousand dollars and faced inspection. The South Dakota Senate passed it, 20-14. The Governor vetoed the bill and the veto was not overridden, so it did not become law.

March 5, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for House Bill 1238, which set rules for people who charge veterans to help with benefit claims. Anyone paid to advise or help with a veterans' benefits claim, other than representatives accredited or regulated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, must first sign a written agreement setting out the service and the fee, and must state plainly that they are not connected to the United States or South Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs. They may not charge an initial or nonrefundable fee, promise a result, or take payment for a claim filed in the first year after active duty unless the veteran waives free help in writing. Payment must depend on the benefit going up and may not exceed five times the monthly increase. Using overseas call centers for a veteran's personal information, or logging in as the veteran, is barred. The South Dakota Senate vote was 25-8. The Governor signed it on March 31, 2025.

March 5, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 177, which would have refunded sales tax to data center operators. A qualified business in a data center would have been entitled to a refund of state sales and use tax on computer hardware, servers, cooling and power equipment, racking, cabling and software bought to fit out the center, and on a substantial refurbishment later. City sales taxes were excluded. The Governor's Office of Economic Development would have decided who qualified. The South Dakota Senate rejected it, 17-18. The bill did not become law.

February 13, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 202, which would have created a standing fund for rural water projects. The water infrastructure development fund would have held legislative appropriations, federal grants for projects on the Bureau of Reclamation rural water list, investment interest and loan repayments. The Legislature would have had to appropriate money out of it for each project. The Board of Water and Natural Resources could have granted up to ten percent of a project's construction cost and lent up to half. The South Dakota Senate passed it, 21-12. A South Dakota House committee killed it, so the full House never voted on it and the bill did not become law.

February 21, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted against Senate Bill 245, which set up a state fund to cut property taxes on owner-occupied homes. The act creates the homeowner property tax reduction fund in the state treasury, run by the Department of Revenue. Its money may only be used to reduce the local share of general education property tax levies on owner-occupied single-family homes. Starting August 1, 2027 a set share of sales and use tax collections goes into the fund. Interest stays in the fund, spending runs through the yearly appropriation bill, and the money cannot be moved to the general fund. The South Dakota Senate vote was 20-13. The Governor signed it on March 30, 2026.

March 11, 2026

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Voted against House Joint Resolution 5001, which would have asked voters to narrow when private land may be taken for public use. The resolution proposed a constitutional amendment for the next general election ballot. A government or company taking or damaging private property would first have had to issue a public declaration establishing why the taking was necessary. The amendment would also have said that public use does not include raising the tax base, tax revenue, jobs or general economic health. The South Dakota Senate rejected it, 14-19. The bill did not become law.

March 2, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 196, which would have widened a property tax freeze for lower-income homeowners. An assessment freeze stops the taxable value of an owner-occupied home from rising. A household of two or more qualifies only with income under sixty-five thousand dollars. The bill would have raised that limit to eighty-five thousand dollars. The limit for a single-person household would have stayed at fifty-five thousand. The South Dakota Senate rejected it, 15-18. The bill did not become law.

February 24, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 195, which would have made the 2023 sales tax cut permanent. In 2023 the Legislature lowered the state's sales and use tax rates, but wrote in that the cut would expire on June 30, 2027, and the old rates would return. The bill would have repealed that expiration, so the lower rates would have stayed. The South Dakota Senate rejected it, 17-17. The bill did not become law.

February 17, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 198, which would have banned student cell phone use during the school day. A student could not have used a cell phone during the school day unless it was part of an approved medical or educational accommodation or needed in an emergency affecting someone's health or safety. Each school board would have had to adopt a policy setting out discipline for breaking the rule. The South Dakota Senate passed it, 19-15. The South Dakota House rejected it, 28-39, so the bill did not become law.

February 17, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 42, which raised the penalties for smuggling drugs and phones into prisons. The act rewrites the penalty schedule for anyone, including staff, who delivers or hides banned articles for an inmate at a state correctional facility, or on the grounds or in a vehicle entering them. Alcohol or marijuana is a Class 6 felony. A cell phone or other banned electronic device carries its own felony grade, and the schedule rises with the seriousness of the article. The South Dakota Senate vote was 26-7. The Governor signed it on March 30, 2026.

January 29, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 85, which would have required a public vote on every school property tax increase above the usual limit. A school board may raise property taxes above the usual limit, called an opt out, by a two-thirds vote of the board, and voters can force an election only by petition. The bill would have required every opt out to go to a public vote, held by October 1. The ballot would have had to state how many years the tax would run and the total dollars it would raise. The South Dakota Senate passed it, 20-14. The South Dakota House rejected it, 29-39, so the bill did not become law.

January 26, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 1249, which would have let landowners sue over pressure tactics used to get carbon pipeline easements. A carbon pipeline company or its agents could not have used deception, fraud, harassment, intimidation, misrepresentation or threats to get a landowner to sign an easement. A landowner could have sued within twelve months, and a court finding such conduct would have had to void the easement and could have awarded up to three times the compensation offered as punitive damages, plus costs and legal fees. Land agents would have had to be company employees, state residents or licensed real estate agents. The South Dakota Senate voted 17-16 for it, but it failed because a bill needs 18 votes, a majority of all 35 members. The bill did not become law.

March 10, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 1235, which would have tightened the cap on how fast property tax collections may grow. A taxing district's property tax revenue may rise each year by no more than three percent or the inflation index, whichever is lower. The bill would have cut that ceiling to two and one half percent, and applied it to school districts, which the law had exempted since 1997. Bond payments, court judgments and revenue from new construction would have stayed outside the cap. The South Dakota Senate rejected it, 13-21. The bill did not become law.

March 10, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 1130, which moved city and school elections onto the June and November dates. A city used to hold its annual election on the second Tuesday of April. The act allows only two dates: the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June, or the same day in November, which are the days South Dakota holds its primary and general elections. The city must set which one it will use by January 14 of the election year. In odd-numbered years a city may still combine its election with a school district election. The South Dakota Senate vote was 23-11. The Governor signed it on March 31, 2025.

March 10, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 1208, which limited people who register to vote from a mailbox address to federal races only. Some people register from a mailbox address. If a person registers to vote, or asks for an absentee ballot, giving only a mail forwarding service, a commercial mail receiving agency or a post office box, and does not say where they actually live, they are not a resident for voting. The county auditor marks them a federal voter and gives them a ballot listing only President, United States Senator and United States Representative. Those ballots are counted with the rest of the precinct. The change starts on January 1, 2026. The South Dakota Senate vote was 25-9. The Governor signed it on March 31, 2025.

March 10, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 1066, which tightened what counts as living in South Dakota for voter registration. Before the act, a resident was a person whose home was in South Dakota, judged mainly by intent. The act instead requires a fixed permanent dwelling where the person lives and usually sleeps for at least thirty consecutive days. A person may be a resident of only one place. The South Dakota Senate vote was 23-11. The Governor signed it on March 31, 2025.

March 10, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 1040, which raised what high school students pay for college courses. South Dakota lets eleventh and twelfth graders take college courses at a reduced rate. The state used to pay two-thirds of that rate and the student one-third. The act makes it half and half, so the student's share rises and the state's share falls. A school district may still cover part of the student's share. The South Dakota Senate vote was 23-11. The Governor signed it on March 31, 2025.

March 6, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 1052, which banned the use of eminent domain for carbon dioxide pipelines. Eminent domain is the power to force a landowner to sell. The act says no one may use it to get right-of-way for, build, or run a pipeline whose main purpose is carrying carbon oxide. It applies despite any other law. The bill was not amended. The South Dakota Senate vote was 23-12. The Governor signed it on March 06, 2025.

March 4, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 188, which would have ended no-excuse absentee voting. Any registered South Dakota voter may vote absentee today without giving a reason. The bill would have allowed it only on a listed ground. The grounds were being away from the county on election day, a physical disability, illness, a religious holiday, attending college, or the hours of a job. The list also covered care in a nursing facility or hospital, jury service, being held in jail without a disqualifying felony, and serving overseas or in the military. The South Dakota Senate rejected it, 14-21. The bill did not become law.

February 25, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 157, which would have required contractors on public projects to prove they carry workers' compensation insurance. Every contract for a public improvement would have had to contain a clause verifying that the contractor and all subcontractors hold workers' compensation insurance, which pays medical bills and lost wages when someone is hurt on the job. The rule would have reached any project a government subsidizes through a grant or tax increment financing. The Department of Labor and Regulation could have demanded subcontractor lists and payroll records to check. The South Dakota Senate passed it, 19-16. A South Dakota House committee killed it, so the full House never voted on it and the bill did not become law.

February 24, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 70, which raised the cap on extra state aid for thinly populated school districts. South Dakota pays a sparsity benefit to school districts covering a lot of ground with few students. The most one district could receive was $110,000 a year. The act raises that ceiling to $137,000. The bill as introduced would have set $175,000 and raised it each year with inflation, and the Senate cut it back to a flat $137,000 before the vote. The South Dakota Senate vote was 27-8. The Governor signed it on March 31, 2025.

February 24, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 54, which cut the share of cigarette tax money going to tobacco prevention. Cigarette tax money is split by a set of thresholds. The first $30 million a year goes to the general fund. The next slice went to the tobacco prevention and reduction trust fund, which pays for programs to stop people smoking. The act cuts that slice from $5 million to $2 million a year, and everything above $32 million now goes to the general fund instead of $35 million. The South Dakota Senate vote was 21-14. The Governor signed it on March 31, 2025.

February 20, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 196, which would have required tribal history and culture in the state's school standards. The Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings are a set of teaching materials on the history and culture of South Dakota's tribes. As the Senate amended the bill, the Board of Education Standards would have had to build them into each set of content standards whenever it revised them, so students could learn the history, language, culture and heritage of the nine tribes in the state. The board would have consulted the Indian Education Advisory Council and each tribe's education director. The South Dakota Senate rejected it, 7-28. The bill did not become law.

February 18, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 50, which would have barred county assessors from using drones to value property. A director of equalization or a deputy, the county officials who set property values for tax purposes, could not have used a drone or any information gathered by one in assessing real property. Doing so would have been a Class 2 misdemeanor. The South Dakota Senate voted 17-16 for it, but it failed because a bill needs 18 votes, a majority of all 35 members. The bill did not become law.

February 5, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 51, which would have required the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Each school board would have had to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom in the district, on a poster at least eight inches by fourteen, with the text as the focus and in large readable type. The bill set out the wording to be used. Further statements and documents would have had to be displayed alongside the poster and included in coursework. The South Dakota Senate passed it, 18-17. The South Dakota House rejected it, 31-37, so the bill did not become law.

January 28, 2025

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