State of South Dakota

South Dakota Legislature

2012 Session Legislator Bills Sponsored

Senate Members

Detail Committees Bills Hearings

Senator Bruce Rampelberg

Prime Sponsor

Bill Title
SB 65 revise the list of products offered to consumers by motor vehicle dealers and sales finance companies.
SC 8 Honoring Cheryl Wait of the city of Hot Springs as 2011 Municipal Finance Officer of the Year.
HB 1072 provide for the recall of county commissioners.
HB 1077 authorize municipalities to establish incidental accounts.
HB 1111 revise certain provisions regarding the use of eminent domain by certain nongovernmental entities.
HB 1139 revise certain provisions relating to identity theft and employment.
HB 1147 remove the individual liability of a school board member who authorizes the making of a void contract, check or registered warrant.
HB 1152 provide funding to school districts for students with limited English proficiency through the state aid to general education funding formula.
HB 1168 provide for the waiver of the state's sovereign immunity in certain instances relating to the control of species of management concern.
HB 1180 remit certain sales and use taxes collected at county-owned fairgrounds to counties.
HB 1184 permit public bodies to keep minutes of executive session and to restrict who may review the minutes.
HB 1188 provide widows and widowers of certain veterans free or reduced fees for certain hunting and fishing licenses and admission to state parks and other facilities.
HC 1002 Recognizing and honoring the "Yellowboy" lever action repeating rifle.
HCR 1015 Urging the federal government to secure our national borders and enforce United States immigration laws.

Co Sponsor

Bill Title
SB 1 increase the excise tax on boats.
SB 58 revise certain provisions concerning elections conducted at voting centers and to declare an emergency.
SB 78 allow an arrest to be expunged when the criminal case is dismissed.
SB 85 revise the calculation of the small school adjustment in the state aid to education formula, and to provide for the distribution of certain funds to school districts.
SB 87 allow military spouses to receive unemployment compensation if they leave their jobs due to a spouse's military transfer.
SB 93 provide for the withdrawal of referred measures in certain circumstances.
SB 94 establish a pilot uninsured motorist identification database program and to make an appropriation therefor.
SB 100 modify the ethanol production incentive payment to include qualified producers of biobutanol.
SB 108 revise the maximum bet limit for Deadwood gaming.
SB 109 revise the definition of adjusted gross proceeds that are subject to the Deadwood gaming gross revenue tax.
SB 112 remove the limitation on the number of retail gaming licenses in Deadwood in which a person may have a financial interest.
SB 114 designate the American bison as the state mascot.
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 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 128 revise certain provisions concerning elections.
SB 132 define vehicular homicide and vehicular battery as crimes of violence.
SB 134 establish or revise the elements of the criminal offenses of obstructing an officer, refusing the lawful order of a law enforcement officer, and fleeing the scene of a potential investigation, and to provide penalties therefor.
SB 144 amend provisions regarding captive insurance companies.
SB 153 authorize the transfer of certain landowner preference big game licenses.
SB 155 prohibit the employment of unauthorized aliens and to provide penalties therefor.
SB 158 create an exception to the loan or credit limitations of state chartered banks.
SB 182 revise certain provisions concerning tax incremental districts.
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 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 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 2 Urging the United States Postal Service to reconsider the closing of post offices in rural South Dakota.
SCR 3 Designating the month of November as COPD Awareness Month in the State of South Dakota.
SCR 4 Supporting the concept and further development of South Dakota First, an initiative for success and development.
SCR 6 Urging the government of Turkey to uphold and safeguard religious and human rights and to respect the property rights and human rights of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
HB 1001 revise certain provisions regarding the sales and use tax.
HB 1097 revise certain provisions regulating the investment of unneeded state operating expenses in banks.
HB 1105 increase the energy minerals severance tax and to deposit the additional revenue in the education enhancement trust fund.
HB 1107 revise certain provisions concerning the bonding authority of the South Dakota Conservancy District.
HB 1114 amend provision limiting the time used to determine if a violation is a third or subsequent offense.
HB 1123 establish the state employee work enhancement program to equalize the tuition rates paid by state employees.
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 1151 revise certain provisions regarding the tuition paid by school districts for children in certain group homes or private child-care centers.
HB 1165 repeal certain provisions relating to health insurance standards.
HB 1166 require the departments of Agriculture and Game, Fish and Parks to provide certain actions and funding specified in the South Dakota black-tailed prairie dog conservation and management plan.
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 1181 revise certain requirements concerning the qualifications of petition circulators.
HB 1182 revise the filing deadlines for the nomination of certain independent candidates.
HB 1183 limit copayment or coinsurance amounts for physical and occupational therapy services.
HB 1186 prohibit registered sex offenders from circulating petitions and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof.
HB 1187 exempt health care sharing ministries from the provisions of the health insurance code.
HB 1194 revise certain provisions regarding the payment for rape and sexual offense examinations.
HB 1196 revise certain provisions concerning lobbyists.
HB 1231 provide that hydraulic fracturing is an acceptable recovery process in South Dakota.
HB 1235 revise certain provisions relating to the South Dakota state flag.
HB 1261 prohibit collective bargaining by public employees.
HB 1264 amend the mandatory reporting requirements regarding child abuse.
HB 1268 require certain persons applying or receiving certain Medicaid financial aid or assistance from the state to submit to drug tests to check for use of controlled substances.
HC 1003 Commending and honoring the community of Delmont on its one hundred twenty-fifth birthday.
HC 1011 Congratulating State Representative Kim Vanneman of Ideal, for receiving the South Dakota Corn Growers Outstanding Legislative Leadership award.
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 1025 Thanking and commending Sanford Health, the University of South Dakota, and the Matson Halverson Christiansen Hamilton Foundation for their tireless efforts to promote rural economic development in South Dakota by assisting rural South Dakota's nontraditional students as they complete their healthcare degrees through the Prairie Futures initiative.
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 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.
HC 1064 Commending and honoring Lake Area Technical Institute in Watertown, South Dakota, on receiving the designation as a Finalist With Distinction in the first annual Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence Program.
HCR 1006 in opposition to certain actions by animal rights groups to undermine agricultural producers.
HCR 1007 Urging the members of the South Dakota Congressional delegation to sponsor and support the Marketplace Fairness Act and the Marketplace Equity Act.
HCR 1008 Recognizing the week of June 25 through June 29, 2012, as Ag Week in South Dakota.
HCR 1010 Urging Congress to adopt a proposed constitutional amendment limiting federal legislation to a single subject.
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.