South Dakota Sen. Ryan Maher (R)

SD - Agriculture and Natural Resources (Senate)

Title:

vice chair

SD - Taxation (Senate)

Title:

member

SD - Transportation (Senate)

Title:

member

SD - Bonding

Title:

member

SD - Executive Board

Title:

member

SD - Legislative Planning Committee

Title:

member

SD - State-Tribal Relations

Title:

member

SD - Oil and Gas Study

Title:

member

SD - SB96 Provide the assessment and payment of taxes on certain school and endowment mineral rights leases.

SD - SB97 Require the payment of a surface access fee for oil and gas exploration and production.

SD - HB1057 Revise certain provisions concerning the manner in which county wheel taxes are imposed.

SD - HB1070 Revise certain provisions relating to the certificate of health requirement for the importation of animals.

SD - HB1072 Provide for the recall of county commissioners.

SD - HB1075 Allow certain property tax documents to be transmitted electronically.

SD - HB1080 Waive certain licensure requirements to hunt fox and coyote with firearms.

SD - HB1081 Revise certain provisions relating to the killing of any mountain lion to protect human life, livestock, or pets.

SD - HB1082 Provide certain exceptions to Department of Game, Fish and Parks promulgated rules pertaining to the taking of mountain lions.

SD - HB1083 Provide for term limits for brand board service.

SD - HB1084 Revise the political qualifications for brand board membership.

SD - HB1085 Revise the residency requirements of the brand board membership.

SD - HB1087 Limit the terms of certain conservation easements.

SD - HB1091 Revise the issuance of temporary nonresident waterfowl licenses.

SD - HB1099 Increase the fee for a payor to withhold child support.

SD - HB1100 Revise the number of ownership acres necessary to qualify for certain big game hunting licenses to be used on a landowner's own property.

SD - HB1104 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.

SD - HB1105 Increase the energy minerals severance tax and to deposit the additional revenue in the education enhancement trust fund.

SD - HB1112 Prohibit any person who fails to file certain campaign finance documents to be a candidate for office.

SD - HB1114 Amend provision limiting the time used to determine if a violation is a third or subsequent offense.

SD - HB1116 Exempt bedding used for agricultural purposes from sales and use taxes.

SD - HB1117 Provide for the taking of muskrats by shooting under certain conditions.

SD - HB1120 Revise certain provisions regarding the filing of claims against public improvement contracts.

SD - HB1130 Revise the fee schedule for certain documents filed with the county register of deeds, to create a county and statewide fund for the purpose of modernizing and preserving records, and to distribute certain revenue.

SD - HB1138 Declare that any person who maintains or provides roll-your-own cigarette machines at retail establishments are cigarette manufacturers.

SD - HB1143 Revise certain provisions relating to a perpetrator's knowledge of a rape victim's age or capability to give consent.

SD - HB1144 Enhance educational and economic activities for Native Americans.

SD - HB1145 Revise certain provisions relating to the nonrenewal of a teacher's contract.

SD - HB1154 Revise certain provisions concerning the construction of roads outside the road district.

SD - HB1155 Regulate certain automatic periodic financial transfers for the purpose of funding political contributions.

SD - HB1157 Repeal the Governor's authority to enter the Midwestern Regional Higher Education Compact on behalf of the state, to repeal the Midwestern Regional Higher Education Compact, to provide for withdrawal of South Dakota from the compact.

SD - HB1162 Revise certain provisions relating to the platting and annexation of subdivisions.

SD - HB1165 Repeal certain provisions relating to health insurance standards.

SD - HB1166 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.

SD - HB1167 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.

SD - HB1168 Provide for the waiver of the state's sovereign immunity in certain instances relating to the control of species of management concern.

SD - HB1169 Repeal certain driver licensing documentation requirements.

SD - HB1173 Revise certain provisions regarding the administration of the county legal expense relief program.

SD - HB1174 Provide for mandatory drug testing for certain TANF and SNAP recipients.

SD - HB1175 Provide for certain further exemptions from certain childhood immunizations.

SD - HB1176 Authorize certain party hunting methods and practices pertaining to the hunting of big game.

SD - HB1177 Establish provisions to exempt breastfeeding mothers or new parents from jury duty.

SD - HB1180 Remit certain sales and use taxes collected at county-owned fairgrounds to counties.

SD - HB1182 Revise the filing deadlines for the nomination of certain independent candidates.

SD - HB1187 Exempt health care sharing ministries from the provisions of the health insurance code.

SD - HB1188 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.

SD - HB1191 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.

SD - HB1195 Authorize the collection of fees for certain educational programming and services, and to declare an emergency.

SD - HB1196 Revise certain provisions concerning lobbyists.

SD - HB1200 Grant certain authority to municipalities and counties regarding outdoor advertising structures or signs.

SD - HB1205 Exempt federal veterans' disability benefits from certain support obligations and other claims.

SD - HB1206 Make an appropriation for emergency food assistance grants and to repeal the sales tax on food refund program.

SD - HB1226 Revise the index factor in the state aid to general education and state aid to special education formulas, and to require the Legislature to estimate general fund revenues for the current fiscal year and the next fiscal year.

SD - HB1227 Revise certain provisions with regard to the rights of industrial and construction equipment dealers.

SD - HB1230 Modify the publication requirements for water rights applications.

SD - HB1231 Provide that hydraulic fracturing is an acceptable recovery process in South Dakota.

SD - HB1235 Revise certain provisions relating to the South Dakota state flag.

SD - HB1236 Require that notice be provided to persons informing them of the expiration date and related information concerning their driver licenses.

SD - HB1237 Assess agricultural land based on its actual use.

SD - HB1240 Separately classify, assess, and tax agricultural land that is leased for certain purposes that restrict the use of the land.

SD - HB1242 Revise the general appropriations act for fiscal year 2012.

SD - HB1245 Revise certain provisions regarding the suspension of a driver license for certain alcoholic beverage violations.

SD - HB1248 Provide for exceptions from certain misdemeanor offenses relating to possession of handguns.

SD - HB1249 Permit a probationer who is a registered sex offender to reside in an assigned halfway house or supervised living center within a community safety zone and to prohibit sex offenders who committed sexual offenses against children to qualify for certain residency exceptions.

SD - HB1250 Permit counties and townships to levy a capital improvement property tax for highways, secondary roads, bridges, and culverts.

SD - HB1252 Require the placement of fluorescent orange material on certain big game hunting blinds.

SD - HB1258 Clarify certain statutes prohibiting political subdivisions from restricting firearms.

SD - HB1259 Provide an exception to vaccination requirements for personal beliefs.

SD - HB1260 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.

SD - HB1261 Prohibit collective bargaining by public employees.

SD - HB1268 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.

SD - HB1272 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.

SD - HJR1002 To propose a constitutional amendment to repeal certain reimbursement restrictions for travel by legislators to and from a legislative session.

SD - HJR1006 Proposing and submitting to the electors at the next general election an amendment to Article XIII, sections 20 and 21 of the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, relating to the trust fund created from the proceeds of the state cement enterprise sales.

SD - HJR1009 Requesting appropriate action by the Congress, either acting by consent of two-thirds of both houses thereof or, upon the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, calling a constitutional convention therefor to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require, with certain exceptions, that the total of all federal appropriations may not exceed the total of all estimated federal revenues in any fiscal year.

SD - HCR1001 Recognizing the week of January 22, 2012, through January 28, 2012, as Reproductive Rights Awareness Week.

SD - HCR1003 Encouraging South Dakota hospitals with maternity care services to become Baby Friendly by implementing the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding.

SD - HCR1006 In opposition to certain actions by animal rights groups to undermine agricultural producers.

SD - HCR1008 Recognizing the week of June 25 through June 29, 2012, as Ag Week in South Dakota.

SD - HCR1009 Urging the federal government to honor tribal identification cards.

SD - HCR1010 Urging Congress to adopt a proposed constitutional amendment limiting federal legislation to a single subject.

SD - HCR1011 Requesting that a United States Navy submarine be named the USS South Dakota.

SD - HCR1012 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.

SD - HCR1013 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.

SD - HCR1014 Urging the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to reconsider its proposed closure of certain VA facilities in Hot Springs.

SD - HC1001 Honoring and supporting the Scotland Kuchen Feier on the occasion of its third annual event.

SD - HC1003 Commending and honoring the community of Delmont on its one hundred twenty-fifth birthday.

SD - HC1004 Thanking and commending the Teach for America corps members who live and teach in South Dakota for their tremendous efforts in working to ensure that every child growing up in poverty receives an excellent education.

SD - HC1013 Commending and honoring those who served in the Korean War, on the sixtieth anniversary of the war's end.

SD - HC1015 Celebrating and honoring Tabor's Annual Czech Days Festivities on the occasion of its sixty-fourth anniversary on June 14, 15, 16, 2012.

SD - HC1017 Honoring and commending the twenty-fifth annual Menno Pioneer Power Show.

SD - HC1021 Commending and honoring the VFW Voice of Democracy, Patriot's Pen, and Teachers of the Year award winners of 2012.

SD - HC1022 Honoring and commemorating Roger Nelson for his life-long commitment to sports in South Dakota.

SD - HC1025 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.

SD - HC1037 Honoring and recognizing seventy-five years of conservation leadership.

SD - HC1042 Honoring the Canton High School wrestling program.

SD - HC1048 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.

SD - HC1064 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.

SD - SB61 Exempt the production of certain plants and sod from sales and use taxes.

SD - SB62 Allow certain alcoholic beverage licensees to charge a corkage fee for serving wine supplied by customers and to allow customers to remove a partially consumed bottle of wine from certain alcoholic beverage licensees.

SD - SB66 Permit the filing of certain documents with the secretary of state by electronic means and to remove the notary requirements.

SD - SB69 Repeal the sunset provision on certain statutes relating to nursing homes on Indian reservations.

SD - SB74 Require the direct billing of anatomic pathology services.

SD - SB75 Revise the determination of fees that may be charged for certain public records.

SD - SB76 Revise certain provisions relating to the retirement of justices and judges.

SD - SB94 Establish a pilot uninsured motorist identification database program and to make an appropriation therefor.

SD - SB100 Modify the ethanol production incentive payment to include qualified producers of biobutanol.

SD - SB101 Authorize counties to borrow money using promissory notes.

SD - SB103 Revise the procedure for cooperatives giving notice to persons whose records are missing regarding ownership of securities, apportionment of equity interest, money, or property.

SD - SB104 Revise certain provisions concerning the investment of public funds.

SD - SB108 Revise the maximum bet limit for Deadwood gaming.

SD - SB109 Revise the definition of adjusted gross proceeds that are subject to the Deadwood gaming gross revenue tax.

SD - SB112 Remove the limitation on the number of retail gaming licenses in Deadwood in which a person may have a financial interest.

SD - SB114 Designate the American bison as the state mascot.

SD - SB118 Revise certain documentation requirements for obtaining an operator's license.

SD - SB123 Revise how the taxes are applied to rural electric companies.

SD - SB124 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.

SD - SB128 Revise certain provisions concerning elections.

SD - SB137 Revise certain provisions concerning the application for absentee voting.

SD - SB144 Amend provisions regarding captive insurance companies.

SD - SB145 Prohibit rebates and regulate contracts for residential roofing goods and services.

SD - SB153 Authorize the transfer of certain landowner preference big game licenses.

SD - SB158 Create an exception to the loan or credit limitations of state chartered banks.

SD - SB159 Authorize funding for certain tribal colleges to defray certain costs associated with educating nonbeneficiary students at tribal colleges and to make an appropriation therefor.

SD - SB165 Revise certain provisions related to the distribution of funds to sparse school districts.

SD - SB166 Require evidence of financial responsibility at the time of vehicle registration, to provide for a motor vehicle insurance data base, and to provide for the administration thereof.

SD - SB167 Increase the amount that may be played on a video lottery machine game.

SD - SB170 Repeal the large project development fund and the appropriation therefor, to provide tax rebates for certain energy projects, to establish and provide for the administration of the business incentive grant fund, and to make an appropriation for the business incentive grant fund.

SD - SB183 Establish the elements of the offense of juvenile sexting and to provide a penalty therefor.

SD - SB186 Update the definition of the nonsectarian textbooks that are loaned to certain students to include digital materials.

SD - SB189 Provide a designation on certain nondriver identification cards, driver licenses, and permits that the card holders or licensees are honorably discharged veterans.

SD - SCR1 Honoring the University of South Dakota on its one hundred fiftieth anniversary.

SD - SCR2 Urging the United States Postal Service to reconsider the closing of post offices in rural South Dakota.

SD - SCR4 Supporting the concept and further development of South Dakota First, an initiative for success and development.

SD - SC1 Commending and honoring the 2010-2011 Outstanding School Administrators of South Dakota.

SD - SC7 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.

SD - SC10 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.

SD - SC11 Recognizing the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Office of Legislative Affairs for its assistance to the State Legislature in carrying out the 2011 legislative redistricting process.

SD - SC12 Congratulating the Belle Fourche Area Community Center in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, for twenty years of service to the community.

SD - SC13 Honoring the Pierre Junior Shooters BB Gun Team as National Champions.

SD - SC14 Congratulating Aberdeen, South Dakota, for its recognition as one of the 100 Best Communities for Young People.

SD - SC17 Honoring Amy Shan of Madison as a recipient of the Prudential Spirit of Community Award.

SD - SC18 Acknowledging the Waverly-South Shore High School Football Team for winning the 2011 State 9B Football Championship.

SD - SC19 Congratulating the Deuel High School Girls Gymnastics Team for winning the 2012 State Class A Gymnastics Team Tournament.

SD - SC21 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.

SD - SC23 Honoring and commending the citizens of South Dakota for their exemplary response to the Missouri River Flood of 2011.

SD - SC29 Recognizing the achievements of the South Dakota State University Women's and Men's Basketball Teams.