State of South Dakota

South Dakota Legislature

2010 Session Legislator Bills Sponsored

House Members

Detail Committees Bills Hearings

Representative Gerald Lange

Prime Sponsor

Bill Title
HB 1123 repeal the income tax imposed on banks and financial corporations.
HB 1124 repeal the premium and annuity tax imposed on insurance companies.
HB 1245 repeal the death penalty and commute certain death sentences to life imprisonment.
HCR 1005 Urging the President of the United States and Congress to pursue a course of disengagement and containment of the forces threatening our homeland security.
HJR 1002 Proposing and submitting to the electors at the next general election a new section to Article XI of the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, relating to the imposition of a corporate income tax.
SB 111 prohibit certain outside employment and compensation by presidents of state institutions of higher education.
SC 26 Congratulating and commending the Augustana College Women's Basketball Team for its successful 2009-2010 season.

Co Sponsor

Bill Title
HB 1006 repeal, update, and make form and style revisions to certain statutes related to the Department of Transportation.
HB 1007 repeal, update, and make form and style revisions to certain statutes related to the Aeronautics Commission.
HB 1111 revise the penalty for first degree manslaughter.
HB 1122 appropriate money for the Northern Crops Institute.
HB 1127 authorize landowners and lessees to possess certain game animal and game bird trophies.
HB 1130 include the families of certain members of the armed forces who died in military service as eligible for gold star special license plates.
HB 1140 prohibit the use of certain photo radar speed detection systems and of certain photo monitoring devices to detect red light violations.
HB 1141 provide for legislative redistricting based on single-member house districts.
HB 1142 prohibit campaign contributions to candidates for the Public Utilities Commission by certain persons or entities associated with regulated entities.
HB 1146 provide for the regulation of certain commercial dog breeding operations.
HB 1147 permit townships to provide certain health, life, and disability income insurance benefits.
HB 1148 authorize counties to change the method of electing the county board of commissioners to either an at-large or district basis.
HB 1150 revise the calculation of the small school adjustment in the state aid to education formula for certain students who participate in open enrollment.
HB 1166 clarify the locations where the local boards of equalization may meet.
HB 1167 revise the term of service of a grand jury.
HB 1170 authorize the issuance of certain lifetime hunting and fishing licenses.
HB 1171 revise certain provisions regarding the fees for certain special motor vehicle license plates.
HB 1184 revise employee sick leave used for the care of a spouse, child, or parent of the employee if the spouse, child, or parent has a serious health condition.
HB 1192 establish an ethanol blender pump incentive grant program, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.
HB 1194 revise certain provisions concerning wind easements and to specify certain information to be included in the recorded documents.
HB 1197 revise certain provisions concerning railroad tax credits.
HB 1207 revise certain campaign finance requirements.
HB 1217 regulate passenger elevators, escalators, and similar conveyance facilities.
HB 1219 provide for the transport of certain students to centrally designated distribution points.
HB 1223 provide procedures by which adopted persons may obtain their original birth certificates and the contact preference of birth parents.
HB 1233 provide for a temporary reduction of the salaries of legislators and certain state officers and employees and to declare an emergency.
HB 1234 increase certain state employee salaries.
HB 1235 increase funding for certain providers of medical services and to make an appropriation therefor.
HB 1236 appropriate money from the education enhancement trust fund for the purpose of providing increased funding for state aid to education.
HB 1255 lower the state sales and use tax on certain food items and to increase the rate of taxation for the sales and use tax on certain goods and services.
HB 1262 adjust certain registration fees for the use of motor vehicles on the public highways.
HB 1264 provide for the issuance of free antlerless deer licenses to certain landowners and lessees.
HB 1273 restrict certain state purchases of gasoline to ethanol blends.
HB 1276 create a task force to study the functioning of the Office of Tribal Government Relations.
HC 1010 Commending and honoring South Dakota's one hundred eighty-eight agriculture educators on National Teach Agriculture Day, February 25, 2010.
HC 1023 Commending and honoring the 2009 State A Girls' Cross Country Champions, the Garretson Blue Dragons, for their outstanding athletic performance at the 2009 State A Girls' Cross Country Meet.
HC 1025 Commending and honoring Tyler Oran Sorenson, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Western Wrestling Conference 197-pound champion, for his outstanding and unprecedented athletic performance in Brookings, South Dakota, at the 2010 Western Wrestling Conference Meet.
HC 1026 Recognizing the South Dakota State University Women's Basketball Team on its outstanding athletic and academic achievements.
HCR 1001 Urging Congress to pass a balanced, well-funded, multi-year federal highway program which provides connectivity and mobility to both rural and urban areas.
HCR 1004 Expressing the heartfelt condolences of South Dakotans to the people of Haiti for their losses resulting from the devastating and horrific earthquake of January 12, 2010, and also to urge the people of South Dakota to be charitable in this time of great human suffering.
HCR 1009 Calling for a balanced approach for instruction in the public schools relating to global climatic change.
HCR 1012 Directing the South Dakota State Investment Council to apply its Social Activism Policy to address the ongoing genocide and other atrocities being committed in Sudan.
SB 1 increase certain registration fees and taxes for the use of motor vehicles on the public highways and to declare an emergency.
SB 88 adopt the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children.
SB 93 exempt certain small wind energy facilities from property taxation.
SB 94 provide for the establishment of rural community-based energy development projects.
SB 95 establish a grant program to fund certain energy efficiency projects.
SB 100 continue the motorcycle safety education fee.
SB 116 require that certain insurers provide notice by certified or registered mail under certain circumstances.
SB 130 revise certain provisions concerning the township road system.
SB 135 provide certain incentives for energy conservation by electric utilities through voltage regulation.
SB 142 prohibit certain business entities and affiliated persons from making political campaign contributions to state officeholders or candidates if the business entity does contractual business with certain state agencies.
SB 143 require the sale of aircraft under the control of the Department of Transportation and to declare an emergency.
SB 144 limit increases in spending by state government.
SB 157 authorize the construction of nursing facilities on American Indian reservations under certain circumstances.
SB 158 provide certain requirements for tanning facilities.
SB 163 revise the penalty for first degree manslaughter.
SB 174 appropriate funds for increased wages for employees of nursing facilities and to transfer funds from the health care trust fund.
SC 1 Honoring and supporting the Scotland Kuchen Feier on the occasion of its first annual event.
SC 2 Honoring and supporting Czech Days in Tabor, South Dakota, on the occasion of its sixty-second anniversary.
SC 10 Honoring Tate Bruckner of Menno, South Dakota, for his outstanding performance as a high school athlete and his dedication to his community.
SC 11 Honoring David Maxwell of Parkston, South Dakota, for his determination and outstanding performance as a high school athlete and his dedication to his community.
SC 14 Honoring and congratulating the members of the 2009 Corsica VFW Teener youth baseball team: Kris Menning, Adam Fink, Aaron Groeneweg, Kiefer Johnson, Luke Bamberg, Colin Wieczorek, Gunner Baan Hofman, Ryan Hongslo, Eric Vanden Hoek, Harlan Big Crow, and Kyle Beltman with bat boy Gavin Zomer and Coaches Bob Bamberg and Dave Holstein on their first-ever State B Baseball Championship Title
SC 20 Recognizing Don Meyer for his distinguished service to the State of South Dakota.
SC 23 Congratulating and commending Bryan Hagg, Tony Martinet, and the entire Sioux Falls Lincoln High School Forensic Team for their commitment, dedication, and success at the state and national levels from the 2008 through 2010 forensic seasons.
SC 24 Commending and honoring the 2009-2010 Madison High School Lady Bulldogs Gymnastics Team for its sixteenth consecutive state championship title in Class A Gymnastics and for setting the national record for consecutive gymnastics state championships.
SCR 3 Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the South Dakota State Capitol.
SJR 4 Proposing a constitutional amendment to combine the offices of state treasurer and state auditor into the single office of state comptroller.
SJR 6 Proposing and submitting to the electors at the next general election amendments to Articles IV and VIII of the Constitution, to combine the duties of the treasurer and the commissioner of school and public lands.