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After 15 amendments, Senate Bill 134 passed both the House and Senate.
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The Senate Health and Human Services committee advanced a bill prohibiting pregnant and breastfeeding women from acquiring medical cannabis cards.
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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.
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The House Health and Human Services committee passed a bill offering additional qualifying conditions for medical cannabis cards.
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The Senate Health and Human Services committee acted on four medical cannabis-related bills.
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A supermajority of state senators has rejected Gov. Kristi Noem’s bill to regulate foreign purchases of agricultural land
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South Dakota’s state sport receives unanimous support from the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources committee.
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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.
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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.
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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.