Legislative
Radar 2019
Legislative
Radar 2019
2019 Legislative Session
Contact your legislators to stand for family values!
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2019 Session
Criminal Justice
An act to further define coercion within the context of Human Trafficking.
An act to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of classes in the hate crimes statute.
Education
An act to establish eligibility for playing on sex-segregated sports teams as based on the student’s birth certificate.
An act to require that the national motto be displayed in public schools.
An act to consider homeschool students “private school students” for the purposes of federal funding for special education services.
An act to place the same requirements on homeschool students as is placed on public and private school students to qualify for the Opportunity Scholarship.
An act to establish eligibility for playing on sex-segregated sports teams as based on the student’s birth certificate.
An act to establish an early learning advisory council.
Family
An act to require parental consent before placing a “Do Not Resuscitate” order in the medical file of a minor child.
Life
Denouncing the recent passage of New York’s abortion law and requesting that the Governor declare a day of prayer and fasting to atone for the unspeakable crime of abortion.
An act to require that a doctor offer to make audible the heartbeat of the baby before performing an abortion.
An act to provide for a form a physician must use to obtain consent to an abortion.
An act to update the informed consent requirements to include reporting on the number of mothers that chose to hear the heartbeat of the child.
An act to provide a criminal penalty for causing an abortion against a pregnant mother’s will.
An act to move the deadline for reporting abortion statistics from November 15 to July 1st.
Gambling
A joint resolution to place on the 2020 ballot, the question of sports betting in Deadwood and Reservation casinos.
An act to require funding for advertising explaining the negative aspects of compulsive gambling.
An act to increase the State’s percentage of video lottery revenue and to create a repeal & recovery fund for the excess revenue.
A joint resolution to place on the 2020 ballot, the question of allowing gambling in one casino in Yankton.
