State of South Dakota

South Dakota Legislature

2010 Session Legislator Bills Sponsored

Detail Committees Bills Hearings

Representative Bill Thompson

Prime Sponsor

Bill Title
HB 1207 revise certain campaign finance requirements.
HB 1220 provide for legislative redistricting by a bipartisan, nonlegislative commission.
HC 1001 Commending and honoring Greg Mortenson for his sixteen years of visionary work in building schools and relationships in the most remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
HC 1003 Honoring and congratulating the 2009 State AA Boys Basketball Championship Team from Sioux Falls Lincoln High School.
SB 121 require the Department of Education to promote certain programs for children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing.
SB 150 provide for an interim study of the potential creation of a Department of Veterans Affairs as a cabinet-level department.
SB 158 provide certain requirements for tanning facilities.
SB 165 prohibit certain corporate contributions to political causes or candidates without shareholder approval.
SB 170 provide for legislative redistricting by a bipartisan, nonlegislative commission.
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.

Co Sponsor

Bill Title
HB 1108 revise the definition of general fund base percentage in the calculation of state aid to education.
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 1131 revise certain provisions concerning intoxicated or incapacitated persons who may be taken into protective custody.
HB 1132 provide for the referral and placement of certain individuals in need of intervention.
HB 1133 prohibit minors from using certain wireless communication devices while operating motor vehicles upon the public highways and to provide certain exceptions.
HB 1142 prohibit campaign contributions to candidates for the Public Utilities Commission by certain persons or entities associated with regulated entities.
HB 1143 authorize the posting of certain information on the internet by school districts in addition to or in lieu of certain publication requirements.
HB 1144 revise the Human Relations Act to include additional categories of persons.
HB 1146 provide for the regulation of certain commercial dog breeding operations.
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 1151 authorize funeral establishments to operate branch chapels.
HB 1152 require the Department of Education to develop a framework for entrepreneurship education.
HB 1156 provide health insurance coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices.
HB 1170 authorize the issuance of certain lifetime hunting and fishing licenses.
HB 1175 provide for the establishment of performance standards for certified teachers, and to provide for the evaluation of the performance of certified teachers.
HB 1183 authorize birth centers to operate in the state.
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 1217 regulate passenger elevators, escalators, and similar conveyance facilities.
HB 1218 provide for the election of the secretary of agriculture.
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 1245 repeal the death penalty and commute certain death sentences to life imprisonment.
HB 1251 provide for delivery of alcoholic beverages to the consumer by certain off-sale and package retailers.
HB 1252 revise certain provisions related to the payment in lieu of taxes for certain housing projects exempt from property taxation.
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 1265 revise certain provisions related to indigent counsel.
HB 1266 assess and tax certain outdoor sign structures as real property.
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 1008 Honoring Sioux Falls Washington High School teacher Kira Christensen as the recipient of the 2009 Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award.
HC 1009 Congratulating the Sioux Falls Washington High School Football Team and its coaches and student managers for their 2009 South Dakota State AA Championship season.
HC 1021 Honoring Travis Shafer, Zach Avre, and Ali Pearson from Washington High School in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as finalists for the Merit Scholarship Awards.
HC 1022 Honoring the success of the Sioux Falls Washington High School Warriors Cross Country and Track and Field Teams and their members for their achievements in 2009.
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 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 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.
HCR 1007 Urging the Bureau of Indian Education and other federal and state agencies to provide for the design and implementation of appropriate measures of adequate yearly progress for Native American students under the No Child Left Behind Act.
SB 76 revise the composition of the State Veterans' Commission.
SB 87 require evidence of financial responsibility at the time of certain vehicle registrations.
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 96 provide for the continuation of the waiver of the collaborative agreement requirement for certified nurse midwives providing out-of-hospital birth services.
SB 97 provide that salvage titles be issued for stolen vehicles and to provide that thefts be noted on the title of recovered motor vehicles.
SB 106 authorize the Board of Regents and the Building Authority to contract for construction of classroom facilities at the University Center in Sioux Falls to replace facilities leased from the Sioux Falls School District, and to make an appropriation therefor.
SB 107 provide for the practice and regulation of licensed midwives.
SB 116 require that certain insurers provide notice by certified or registered mail under certain circumstances.
SB 124 establish the per student allocation for FY 2011, and to revise the index factor in the state aid to education formula.
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 173 provide a maximum finance charge for payday loans and title loans.
SB 186 change the unemployment insurance wage base and contribution rates and to declare an emergency.
SB 191 establish the South Dakota Early Learning Council, and to establish community planning processes and eligibility criteria for entities seeking state funding to provide voluntary prekindergarten programs to children from low-income families.
SB 193 expand medicaid eligibility for pregnant women and to provide an appropriation therefor.
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 3 Commending and honoring the Tyndall Accordion Club for their dedication to playing and sharing accordion music for over two decades.
SC 5 Commending and honoring the 2008-2009 Outstanding School Administrators of South Dakota: Don Kirkegaard, Britton-Hecla, School Superintendent; Sherry Hansen, Tripp-Delmont, School Business Official; Dr. Jackie McNamara, Sioux Falls, Elementary School Principal; Jerry Rasmussen, Dakota Valley, Secondary School Principal; Dr. Debra Johnson, Chamberlain, Middle School Principal; Don Lyon, Meade, Assistant Secondary Principal; Darci Love, Huron, Curriculum Director; and John Fathke, South Central Ed Coop, Director of Special Education for being named outstanding administrators by their respective administrator parent groups.
SC 20 Recognizing Don Meyer for his distinguished service to the State of South Dakota.
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.
SC 27 Honoring John Frislie of Canton, South Dakota, for his contributions to conservation efforts in southeastern South Dakota and statewide.
SC 30 Commending and honoring former Lieutenant Governor William Dougherty for his many years of service to South Dakota.
SCR 3 Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the South Dakota State Capitol.
SCR 5 Expressing support for the public awareness of multiple sclerosis and recognizing MS Awareness Week as March 8-14, 2010.
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.