State of South Dakota

South Dakota Legislature

2012 Session Legislator Bills Sponsored

Senate Members

Detail Committees Bills Hearings

Senator Tim Begalka

Prime Sponsor

Bill Title
SB 60 provide for the award of joint physical custody of children under certain circumstances.
SB 61 exempt the production of certain plants and sod from sales and use taxes.
SB 95 modify distributions from the wind energy tax fund.
SB 150 authorize counties and townships to permit fencing within the rights-of-way of certain minimum maintenance roads.
SC 18 Acknowledging the Waverly-South Shore High School Football Team for winning the 2011 State 9B Football Championship.
SC 19 Congratulating the Deuel High School Girls Gymnastics Team for winning the 2012 State Class A Gymnastics Team Tournament.
HB 1015 provide for exceptions from certain misdemeanor offenses relating to possession of handguns.
HB 1087 limit the terms of certain conservation easements.
HB 1090 provide for the issuance of deer hunting licenses to certain landowners for use by family members.
HB 1122 revise certain provisions relating to the vacation, change, or location of highways.
HB 1140 require that all recorded votes of the Legislature be displayed on the Legislative Research Council's internet site and to establish a penalty.
HB 1141 require that the Legislative Research Council's internet site include a listing of votes cast by individual legislators.
HB 1142 protect the access of legislators to staff services and the maintenance of appropriate legislative confidentiality and to provide penalties for the violation thereof.
HB 1186 prohibit registered sex offenders from circulating petitions and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof.
HB 1238 establish sanctions relating to the hiring of illegal aliens.
HB 1258 clarify certain statutes prohibiting political subdivisions from restricting firearms.
HB 1260 repeal the authority the director of the Division of Insurance has to promulgate rules governing use of genetic information and to enact certain provisions regarding the use of genetic information.
HC 1008 Commemorating the Madison Dairy Queen for its entrepreneurial spirit, hard work, and dedication to helping children.

Co Sponsor

Bill Title
SB 72 regulate persons offering speech-language pathology to the public.
SB 92 exempt certain funeral services and expenses from sales and use tax.
SB 100 modify the ethanol production incentive payment to include qualified producers of biobutanol.
SB 102 clarify the procedures for the apportionment of funds among townships.
SB 116 revise certain provisions relating to the township road system.
SB 117 require that certain heliports be approved by the South Dakota Aeronautics Commission.
SB 118 revise certain documentation requirements for obtaining an operator's license.
SB 120 temporarily increase the state sales and use tax and to declare an emergency.
SB 123 revise how the taxes are applied to rural electric companies.
SB 124 revise per student allocation for state aid to education, to revise the property tax levies for the general fund of school districts, and to revise certain provisions concerning state aid and local effort.
SB 153 authorize the transfer of certain landowner preference big game licenses.
SB 169 establish the Regional Watershed Advisory Task Force.
SB 181 repeal certain tort liability arising out of causes of action based on seduction, abduction, and alienation of affections.
SB 189 provide a designation on certain nondriver identification cards, driver licenses, and permits that the card holders or licensees are honorably discharged veterans.
SC 1 Commending and honoring the 2010-2011 Outstanding School Administrators of South Dakota.
SC 7 Honoring Beth Mayrose of Salem, South Dakota Girls State Governor, and Jack Gordon of Sioux Falls, South Dakota Boys State Governor; and commending the South Dakota American Legion and Auxiliary for their sponsorship and coordination of the Girls State and Boys State programs.
SC 10 Congratulating and honoring the South Dakota National Guard, both current members and all those who have served previously, on the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the South Dakota National Guard on January 27, 2012.
SC 11 Recognizing the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Office of Legislative Affairs for its assistance to the State Legislature in carrying out the 2011 legislative redistricting process.
SC 13 Honoring the Pierre Junior Shooters BB Gun Team as National Champions.
SC 14 Congratulating Aberdeen, South Dakota, for its recognition as one of the 100 Best Communities for Young People.
SC 16 Honoring Courtney Peterson of Sisseton, South Dakota, as the recipient of the 2012 Miss Rodeo South Dakota crown.
SC 17 Honoring Amy Shan of Madison as a recipient of the Prudential Spirit of Community Award.
SC 21 Congratulating and commending Wyatt DeJong of Winner, South Dakota, and the Winner FFA Chapter for his outstanding year as the 2010-2011 National FFA Central Region Vice President.
SC 23 Honoring and commending the citizens of South Dakota for their exemplary response to the Missouri River Flood of 2011.
SC 29 Recognizing the achievements of the South Dakota State University Women's and Men's Basketball Teams.
SCR 1 Honoring the University of South Dakota on its one hundred fiftieth anniversary.
SCR 4 Supporting the concept and further development of South Dakota First, an initiative for success and development.
SCR 5 Supporting and encouraging a 2012 interim study and thorough review of drainage laws in South Dakota.
HB 1052 grant discretion to the court with regard to personal appearances in certain adoption appearances.
HB 1053 establish the hope card program relating to protection orders.
HB 1070 revise certain provisions relating to the certificate of health requirement for the importation of animals.
HB 1078 allow certain structures or facilities previously used as an elevator to be classified as agricultural property.
HB 1098 repeal certain provisions providing for the tolling of administrative rules dealing with underground injection control Class III wells and in situ leach mining relating to uranium.
HB 1099 increase the fee for a payor to withhold child support.
HB 1103 provide a maximum rate of interest or finance charge for regulated lenders.
HB 1104 define the responsibility of the Department of Transportation regarding portions of certain intersecting county and township highways located within the right-of-way of the state highway system.
HB 1106 restore funding for certain salary and expense reimbursement programs relating to veterans' service officers and to make an appropriation therefor.
HB 1112 prohibit any person who fails to file certain campaign finance documents to be a candidate for office.
HB 1113 prohibit the use of certain public resources to influence the outcome of elections.
HB 1116 exempt bedding used for agricultural purposes from sales and use taxes.
HB 1131 revise certain provisions relating to the posting of public notice for meetings of public bodies.
HB 1138 declare that any person who maintains or provides roll-your-own cigarette machines at retail establishments are cigarette manufacturers.
HB 1139 revise certain provisions relating to identity theft and employment.
HB 1143 revise certain provisions relating to a perpetrator's knowledge of a rape victim's age or capability to give consent.
HB 1145 revise certain provisions relating to the nonrenewal of a teacher's contract.
HB 1165 repeal certain provisions relating to health insurance standards.
HB 1167 repeal certain health care standards and other requirements for managed health care plans enacted in 2011 and to reenact the previous standards for managed health care plans.
HB 1169 repeal certain driver licensing documentation requirements.
HB 1170 include certain speeding offenses in the point system for traffic violations for the purposes of driver license records.
HB 1171 clarify certain rules of evidence to determine the value of services for which special damages may be awarded in health care malpractice cases.
HB 1177 establish provisions to exempt breastfeeding mothers or new parents from jury duty.
HB 1187 exempt health care sharing ministries from the provisions of the health insurance code.
HB 1191 provide for an interstate compact on public health care, to establish an interstate advisory health care commission, to specify the relationship between the member states and the federal government, and to assert the right to federal funding in lieu of certain federally funded incentives.
HB 1201 revise certain provisions regarding tax refunds for energy related projects and facilities.
HB 1205 exempt federal veterans' disability benefits from certain support obligations and other claims.
HB 1218 rescind the statute of limitations for any civil cause of action arising out of childhood sexual abuse.
HB 1228 provide tax refunds for certain energy projects.
HB 1231 provide that hydraulic fracturing is an acceptable recovery process in South Dakota.
HB 1240 separately classify, assess, and tax agricultural land that is leased for certain purposes that restrict the use of the land.
HB 1259 provide an exception to vaccination requirements for personal beliefs.
HB 1264 amend the mandatory reporting requirements regarding child abuse.
HB 1266 reduce the period of time necessary to cure and validate certain adoption proceedings.
HB 1272 allow the sale of health benefit plans approved in select other states to be sold in South Dakota and to grant the director authority to pursue a multi-state consortium to grant automatic reciprocity for the sale of health benefit plans approved by the participating consortium states.
HC 1001 Honoring and supporting the Scotland Kuchen Feier on the occasion of its third annual event.
HC 1003 Commending and honoring the community of Delmont on its one hundred twenty-fifth birthday.
HC 1005 Congratulating and honoring Rob Monson on his election as the 2011-2012 President of the National Association of Elementary School Principals.
HC 1006 Honoring and commemorating the anniversary in 2012 of the fifty-fourth annual Schmeckfest in Freeman, South Dakota.
HC 1011 Congratulating State Representative Kim Vanneman of Ideal, for receiving the South Dakota Corn Growers Outstanding Legislative Leadership award.
HC 1013 Commending and honoring those who served in the Korean War, on the sixtieth anniversary of the war's end.
HC 1014 Commending and honoring Dennis Povondra, business manager at Bon Homme 4-2 School District, on his retirement after thirty-six years of exceptional service.
HC 1015 Celebrating and honoring Tabor's Annual Czech Days Festivities on the occasion of its sixty-fourth anniversary on June 14, 15, 16, 2012.
HC 1016 Commending and honoring Avon Elementary School as a National Blue Ribbon school for outstanding academic achievement.
HC 1017 Honoring and commending the twenty-fifth annual Menno Pioneer Power Show.
HC 1021 Commending and honoring the VFW Voice of Democracy, Patriot's Pen, and Teachers of the Year award winners of 2012.
HC 1022 Honoring and commemorating Roger Nelson for his life-long commitment to sports in South Dakota.
HC 1023 Commending and honoring Spc. Dennis Jensen who was killed on active duty in Afghanistan.
HC 1037 Honoring and recognizing seventy-five years of conservation leadership.
HC 1039 Commending and honoring Darin Peterka of Miller High School for his outstanding athletic performance.
HC 1040 Posthumously honoring South Dakota Highway Patrol Trooper Douglas Leigh Nelson, Sr. (HP 110) for his thirty-five and one half years dedicated service to South Dakotans as a highway patrolman and a veteran of the U.S. Army.
HC 1042 Honoring the Canton High School wrestling program.
HC 1048 Acknowledging the nine sovereign Tribes within the borders of South Dakota and recognizing Governor Dennis Daugaard for his dedication to promoting a cooperative government-to-government relationship between the Tribes and the State of South Dakota.
HC 1050 Commending and honoring the town of Pierpont, South Dakota, on its one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary.
HCR 1003 Encouraging South Dakota hospitals with maternity care services to become Baby Friendly by implementing the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding.
HCR 1004 Supporting and encouraging the academic study of the Bible in South Dakota public schools.
HCR 1006 in opposition to certain actions by animal rights groups to undermine agricultural producers.
HCR 1008 Recognizing the week of June 25 through June 29, 2012, as Ag Week in South Dakota.
HCR 1011 Requesting that a United States Navy submarine be named the USS South Dakota.
HCR 1012 Directing the Department of Game, Fish and Parks to return a mountain lion carcass or pelt to a certain Harding County resident and to reconsider its policy with respect to possession of mountain lion carcasses and pelts.
HCR 1013 Directing the Department of Game, Fish and Parks to return a mountain lion carcass or pelt to a certain Butte County resident and to reconsider its policy with respect to possession of mountain lion carcasses and pelts.
HCR 1014 Urging the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to reconsider its proposed closure of certain VA facilities in Hot Springs.
HCR 1015 Urging the federal government to secure our national borders and enforce United States immigration laws.
HCR 1018 Urging Congress to restore the impact aid program.
HJR 1002 To propose a constitutional amendment to repeal certain reimbursement restrictions for travel by legislators to and from a legislative session.