Committee Agenda

Committee:    House State Affairs
Room:    412
Date:    Monday, February 12, 2001
Time:    7:00 PM



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         HB 1247     revise the requirements for volunteer firefighters to become eligible for workers' compensation.
             Representatives Lintz, McCoy, Napoli, Pederson (Gordon), Rhoden, and Richter and Senators Vitter, Duxbury, Kleven, Putnam, and Reedy

         HB 1262     establish procedures to resolve certain disagreements regarding overhead or underground facilities crossing railroad rights-of-way.
             Representative Lange

         HB 1285     transfer funds to the state fair fund and to revise the budgetary procedure for the state fair.
             Representatives Hansen (Tom), Adelstein, Begalka, Broderick, Brown (Jarvis), Derby, Duenwald, Duniphan, Frost, Fryslie, Heineman, Hennies (Don), Hunhoff, Jaspers, Juhnke, Koistinen, Konold, Murschel, Peterson (Bill), Pitts, Pummel, Slaughter, Smidt, Teupel, Van Gerpen, and Wick and Senators Greenfield, Albers, Bogue, Brown (Arnold), Drake, Everist, McCracken, and Vitter

         HCR 1004     Urging Congress to conduct an investigation of the natural gas commodity market and to establish a national energy policy.
             Representatives Flowers, Abdallah, Bartling, Bradford, Burg, Davis, Elliott, Gillespie, Glenski, Hanson (Gary), Hargens, Jaspers, Kloucek, Lange, Monroe, Murschel, Nachtigal, Napoli, Nesselhuf, Olson (Mel), Peterson (Jim), Rhoden, Richter, Sigdestad, Valandra, and Van Norman and Senators Volesky, de Hueck, Dennert, Duxbury, Greenfield, Hutmacher, Kleven, Koetzle, McIntyre, Moore, Munson, Olson (Ed), Reedy, Sutton (Dan), and Symens

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 1159     require an employee's written authorization before money may be withheld from the employee's paycheck for a political purpose.
             Representatives Wick, Duenwald, Fryslie, Hunhoff, Jaspers, Juhnke, Koistinen, Konold, McCaulley, Napoli, Pederson (Gordon), Peterson (Bill), Slaughter, Smidt, and Van Gerpen and Senators Greenfield, Bogue, Diedrich (Larry), Drake, and Vitter

         HB 1190     provide that the free exercise of religion is protected.
             Representatives Brown (Richard), Adelstein, Hennies (Thomas), Lange, McCaulley, Monroe, Sebert, Smidt, Valandra, and Van Gerpen and Senators Bogue, Diedrich (Larry), Reedy, Staggers, and Symens

         HJR 1001     Proposing and submitting to the electors at the special election designated by the Seventy-fifth Legislature, meeting in special session, a question relating to the decision by the South Dakota State Cement Plant Commission to sell the state cement plant.
             Representatives Kloucek, Bartling, Burg, Hundstad, Lange, Nachtigal, Sigdestad, Valandra, and Van Norman and Senators Volesky, Koetzle, and McIntyre

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BILL PETERSON, Chair