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Archived State Bills
2013
| Name | SDSA Stance | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| HB 1007 | Support | Restrict the term of conservation easements. |
| HB 1017 | Neutral | Establish and revise certain provisions, bond amounts, fees, and penalties related to the regulation of grain warehouses and grain buyers and to declare an emergency. |
| HB 1089 | Neutral | Require statewide livestock ownership inspection. |
| HB 1108 | Neutral | Expand the application of certain open meetings provisions to certain committees of public boards. |
| HB 1115 | Neutral | Clarify the deliberative process exception to certain open records provisions. |
| HB 1135 | Support | Regulate access to and use of public waters on public and private property. |
| HB 1156 | Neutral | Revise certain provisions concerning nonresident waterfowl licenses. |
| HB 1160 | Support | Clarify certain penalty provisions relating to damage caused by wildlife to land, livestock, or crops. |
| HB 1167 | Support | Revise the composition of the policy review committee for animal damage control. |
| HB 1175 | Oppose | Establish sanctions relating to the hiring of illegal aliens. |
| HB 1228 | Neutral | Give producers priority to recover on a bond seized by the state from a public grain warehouse or grain buyer. |
| SB 10 | Support | Authorize the Board of Regents to contract for the construction of swine teaching and research facilities at South Dakota State University and to make an appropriation therefor. |
| SB 115 | Support | Increase the commercial fertilizer inspection fee for purposes of fertilizer-related research and to create the Nutrient Research Education Council to promote such research. |
| SB 116 | Neutral | Establish a subordinate agricultural supplier's lien for an unpaid charge account billing statement. |
| SB 153 | Neutral | Clarify, remove inconsistencies from, and revise certain provisions relating to the formation and operation of watershed districts. |
| SB 155 | Support | Establish a local government road improvement grant fund for the purpose of serving new agricultural facilities and to make an appropriation therefor. |
| SB 171 | Oppose | establish the crime of aggravated cruelty to dogs, cats, and horses and to provide certain criminal and civil penalties therefor. |
| SB 178 | Neutral | Enhance animal and livestock sustainability. |
| SB 179 | Oppose | Provide for a uniform county drainage permit application form and to remove the maximum limit for drainage permit fees. |
| SB 210 | Oppose | Provide for assessment of agricultural property based on the market, repeal the methodology that assesses agricultural land based on its agricultural income value, and to dissolve the implementation and oversight advisory task force. |
| SB 238 | Neutral | Appropriate money to the animal damage control fund for predator control services and to declare an emergency. |
| SB 40 | Oppose | Require certain receipts of delivery to grain elevators be kept and to establish certain penalties for overweight vehicles and trailers. |
| SB 53 | Neutral | Expand the application of the farm decal system. |
| SB 57 | Neutral | Define a biodiesel producer and bulk plant operator and revise certain statutory references and to make certain form and style changes regarding motor fuel taxation. |
| SB 85 | Neutral | Revise certain provisions regarding the production incentive payment available to ethanol producers. |
2012
| Name | SDSA Stance | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| HB 1001 | Neutral | Revise certain provisions regarding the sales and use tax. |
| HB 1003 | Support | Revise the limitation on the increases and decreases that may be made to the total taxable value of cropland and noncropland. |
| HB 1011 | Support | Revise the definition of domestic use of water. |
| HB 1036 | Support | Establish and revise certain provisions and penalties related to the regulation of grain warehouses, grain buyers, and warehouse receipts. |
| HB 1087 | Neutral | Limit the terms of certain conservation easements. |
| HB 1089 | Neutral | Restrict certain state purchases of gasoline to ethanol blends. |
| HB 1093 | Neutral | Revise certain property tax levies for the general fund of school districts. |
| HB 1094 | Neutral | Require the filing of certain documents relating to the vacation, location, or changing of highways with the register of deeds. |
| HB 1116 | Support | Exempt bedding used for agricultural purposes from sales and use taxes. |
| HB 1139 | Oppose | Revise certain provisions relating to identity theft and employment. |
| HB 1201 | Neutral | Revise certain provisions regarding tax refunds for energy related projects and facilities. |
| HB 1228 | Support | Repeal the sunset concerning tax refunds for new or expanded agricultural facilities and new or expanded business facilities. |
| HB 1230 | Oppose | Modify the publication requirements regarding the application for a well driller license or a well pump installer license. |
| HB 1238 | Oppose | Establish sanctions relating to the hiring of illegal aliens. |
| HB 1240 | Neutral | Separately classify, assess, and tax agricultural land that is leased for certain purposes that restrict the use of the land. |
| HB 1243 | Oppose | Require that notice be provided before certain drainage activities are undertaken. |
| HB 1250 | Neutral | Permit counties and townships to levy a capital improvement property tax for highways, secondary roads, bridges, and culverts. |
| HB 1257 | Neutral | Provide for the disposal of the Napa Junction to Platte segment of the state-owned rail system. |
| SB 100 | Support | Modify the ethanol production incentive payment to include qualified producers of biobutanol. |
| SB 120 | Neutral | Temporarily increase the state sales and use tax and to declare an emergency. |
| SB 123 | Neutral | Revise how the taxes are applied to rural electric companies. |
| SB 129 | Oppose | Provide for the severance of certain water rights. |
| SB 150 | Neutral | Authorize counties and townships to permit fencing within the rights-of-way of certain minimum maintenance roads. |
| SB 155 | Oppose | Prohibit the employment of unauthorized aliens and to provide penalties therefor. |
| SB 169 | Oppose | Create certain watershed districts. |
| SB 49 | Neutral | Revise the property tax levies for the general fund of a school district. |
| SB 61 | Neutral | Exempt the production of certain plants and sod from sales and use taxes. |