South Dakota Legislative Updates will be held by Zoom every other Friday beginning January 31st at noon Central Time.
South Dakota's 100th Legislative Session kicked off on Tuesday, January 14th at 1:00 PM with Governor Kristi Noem's State of the State Address. This is a year of new faces. There are 28 new legislators in the House of Representatives (22 are first-timers, and six served in the legislature previously). The Senate has 14 new legislators (4 of whom have previously served). Building relationships with your legislators is more important than ever. They jumped in with both feet filing 82 bills in the Senate and 82 bills in the House during the first week of session.
Following are the bills that we are tracking:
HB 1070: An Act to prohibit cost-sharing in certain health insurance policies for diagnostic and supplemental breast imaging examinations.
SB 87: An Act to address preauthorization requirements for certain health care services and utilization review requirements for certain health benefit plans.
HB 1019: An Act to eliminate certain property taxes levied on owner-occupied single-family dwellings, and to increase certain gross receipt tax rates and use tax rates.
HB 1024: An Act to amend certain fees collected by the Secretary of State.
HB 1037: An Act to repeal the tax collection allowance credit for filing returns and remitting taxes electronically.
HB 1048: An Act to require that cash be accepted for certain transactions.
HB 1061: An Act to prohibit a health care provider from restricting or denying a parent of guardian's access to certain medical records and other health information of a minor.
HJR 5001: Proposing and submitting to the voters at the next general election an amendment to the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, conditioning the requirement of expanded Medicaid on the level of federal medical assistance.
SB 26: An Act to reduce employer contribution rates and increase the administrative fee rate for reemployment assistance.
SB 29: An Act to amend provisions regarding the Division of Insurance and the former Division of Securities operating fund.
SB 30: An Act to remove outdated provisions within the insurance code.
