Senate State Affairs Agenda 02/22/2006 7:45 AM

Committee:    Senate State Affairs
Room:     412
Date:    Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Time:    7:45 AM

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CONFIRM: Appointment of the following to the South Dakota Energy Infrastructure Authority:

    Mike Held, Beadle County, Huron, South Dakota
    Audry Ricketts, Hughes County, Pierre, South Dakota
    Mike Ropp, Brookings County, Brookings, South Dakota
    Mike Trykoski,, Pennington County, Rapid City, South Dakota
    Kyle White, Pennington Couty, Rapid City, South Dakota

         HB 1222     require regental institutions to annually report to the Legislature regarding intellectual diversity.
             Representatives Heineman, Brunner, Buckingham, Davis, Dykstra, Elliott, Hennies, Hills, Hunt, Jensen, Jerke, Klaudt, Kraus, Krebs, Lange, McCoy, Michels, Miles, Rhoden, Schafer, Sebert, Tidemann, Tornow, Turbiville, Weems, and Willadsen and Senators Schoenbeck, Duenwald, Greenfield, Hansen (Tom), Koskan, Lintz, and McNenny

         HB 1238*     authorize the Board of Regents to purchase certain real property for the sole purpose of providing a site for the operation of instructional, research and service programs delivered through institutions established by the Legislature and governed by the Board of Regents, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.
             The Committee on Appropriations at the request of the Governor

         HB 1244*     transfer funds from the railroad trust fund, to make an appropriation to construct instructional classrooms, and to declare an emergency.
             The Committee on Appropriations at the request of the Governor

         HB 1246     authorize the state to join an interstate compact for the prevention and control of forest fires.
             The Committee on State Affairs at the request of the Governor

NOTE: The above bills will be taken up in this order for a hearing on the date noted. If circumstances do not permit a hearing on this date then a hearing will be held at a future meeting of the committee to be determined by the chair. Action on a bill may come at any time after it has had a hearing.

BILLS FOR POSSIBLE ACTION WHICH HAVE HAD PRIOR HEARING.

HB 1198* define the applicable standard of care in regard to screening risk factors for all abortions except in the case of a medical emergency
Representatives Howie, Hunt, Jerke, Kraus, McCoy, and Van Etten and Senators Greenfield, Duenwald, and McNenny