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Vaccination rates are declining. They might get worse as states relax rules.
More states are loosening vaccine mandates, scaling back vaccine promotion efforts and taking other steps likely to lower vaccination rates — even as a major measles outbreak spreads in Texas.
Medicaid expansion funding cuts likely, South Dakota Lt. Gov. Venhuizen says
Republican Lt. Gov. Tony Venhuizen told lawmakers at the state Capitol that federal support for Medicaid expansion could decline.
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Governor signs age verification bill and lab-grown meat funding restrictions
More than a dozen other states have passed or are considering laws to require porn sites to ask adults who want to visit them ...
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Lawmakers approve rollback of South Dakota’s uniquely severe drug ingestion penalties
The future of South Dakota’s drug ingestion law — often described as the most severe in the nation — is in the hands of Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden.
Baby boy found at Sioux Falls recycling center triggers new baby surrender law
The South Dakota Legislature passed a bill Tuesday that would allow for the installation of newborn surrender devices at certain agencies.
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Rhoden signs website age verification, cell-cultured protein bills into law
Rhoden also signed HB 1118, which prohibits the award or use of state moneys for the research, production, promotion, sale, ...