Erin Tobin

After 15 amendments, Senate Bill 134 passed both the House and Senate.

The Senate Health and Human Services committee advanced a bill prohibiting pregnant and breastfeeding women from acquiring medical cannabis cards.

Multiple efforts to clarify the state’s only abortion exception have stalled as lawmakers near the end of session. The clarifications were opposed by the state’s preeminent anti-abortion group.

The House Health and Human Services committee passed a bill offering additional qualifying conditions for medical cannabis cards.

The Senate Health and Human Services committee acted on four medical cannabis-related bills.

A supermajority of state senators has rejected Gov. Kristi Noem’s bill to regulate foreign purchases of agricultural land

South Dakota’s state sport receives unanimous support from the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources committee.

Senate Bill 4 as written, allowed state court judges to refer juveniles to the Department of Corrections after three strikes. Under the amendment, the juvenile has only one strike.

Gov. Kristi Noem’s bill to establish a panel that reviews agricultural land purchases by foreign individuals and groups dropped on Tuesday. Senate Bill 185 reaffirms a 1979 law that prevents foreign governments from acquiring no more that 160 acres of agricultural land in South Dakota. It adds “foreign person, foreign entity” to the list.

South Dakota lawmakers are preparing to bring a bill allowing exceptions to the state’s abortion ban in cases where the mother’s health is in question.