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SENATE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 1st Legislative Day 01/13/2009 Complete Meeting 4th Legislative Day 01/16/2009 Complete Meeting SB 35 - revise the definition of an assisted living center. 6th Legislative Day 01/21/2009 Complete Meeting SB 46 - change the name of adjustment training center to community support provider. SB 45 - provide an exception to the practice of seclusion as it pertains to the treatment of a person with a developmental disability. 9th Legislative Day 01/26/2009 Complete Meeting HB 1032 - revise the definition of an accredited prevention or treatment facility for the purposes of the prevention and treatment of alcohol and drug abuse. SB 73 - permit persons sixteen years of age to donate blood under certain circumstances. 11th Legislative Day 01/28/2009 Complete Meeting SB 76 - require background investigations for certain optometrist licensees and applicants. SB 72 - make an appropriation to initiate a master of social work degree program in higher education. 13th Legislative Day 01/30/2009 Complete Meeting SB 19 - revise the grounds for which continuation or conversion is not required for certain group health policies. SB 20 - revise the lifetime benefit maximum for the health insurance risk pool. SB 109 - revise the provisions for the risk pool to allow uninsurable children to enroll and to provide for additional funding. 14th Legislative Day 02/02/2009 Complete Meeting SB 83 - prohibit smoking tobacco or carrying lighted tobacco products in certain places and to require certain persons to inform violators of the prohibition. 16th Legislative Day 02/04/2009 Complete Meeting SB 125 - revise certain provisions of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. SB 130 - require written consent for the issuance of certain disinterment permits. SB 153 - provide procedures by which adopted persons may obtain their original birth certificates and the contact preference of birth parents. SB 150 - establish a presumption regarding occupational disease disabilities of certain firefighters. SB 97 - encourage the Department of Health to include online training programs for courses required of food service managers. SB 139 - provide for certain restrictions for the use of tanning devices by minors. 18th Legislative Day 02/09/2009 Complete Meeting SB 92 - require the physical presence of any physician scheduled to perform an abortion at the site of the abortion procedure on the day prior to the abortion procedure. SB 177 - adopt the South Dakota Indian Child Welfare Act. SB 198 - require notice if certain immunizations contain more than trace amounts of mercury. 20th Legislative Day 02/11/2009 Complete Meeting SB 193 - expand medicaid eligibility for pregnant women upon certain conditions and to provide an appropriation therefor. HB 1092 - regulate the practice of genetic counseling and to prohibit the practice of genetic counseling without a license. SB 92 - require the physical presence of any physician scheduled to perform an abortion at the site of the abortion procedure on the day prior to the abortion procedure. HB 1042 - permit an extension to the required examination time period allowed for certain medical licensing examinations. HB 1041 - provide physicians with a limited permit to practice medicine within a residency program and to revise certain provisions regarding the Board of Examiners authority to administer resident certificates and resident training permits. 24th Legislative Day 02/18/2009 Complete Meeting SB 134 - provide health insurance coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. SB 160 - revise the grounds for which a license of an athletic trainer may be revoked, suspended, or canceled. 26th Legislative Day 02/20/2009 Complete Meeting SB 160 - revise the grounds for which a license of an athletic trainer may be revoked, suspended, or canceled. SB 134 - provide health insurance coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. 27th Legislative Day 02/23/2009 Complete Meeting HB 1080 - revise certain provisions relating to internet and mail order sales of cigarettes and tobacco products. SB 193 - expand medicaid eligibility for pregnant women upon certain conditions and to provide an appropriation therefor. 30th Legislative Day 03/02/2009 Complete Meeting HB 1240 - prohibit smoking tobacco or carrying lighted tobacco products in certain places and to require certain persons to inform violators of the prohibition. HB 1239 - create the South Dakota Boxing Commission and to provide for the supervision of boxing, kickboxing, and mixed martial arts competitions and sparring exhibitions in the state.

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