Text of SD HB 1215 (2020)
Prohibit the state from endorsing or enforcing certain policies regarding domestic relations.
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As introduced
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20.435.11
95th Legislative Session
169
2020 South Dakota Legislature
House Bill 1215
Introduced by: Representative Randolph
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An Act to prohibit the state from endorsing or enforcing certain policies regarding
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domestic relations.
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
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Section 1. That a NEW SECTION be added:
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25-11-1. Marriage policies--Prohibitions.
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The state may not enforce, endorse, or favor policies that:
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(1)
Permit any form of marriage that does not involve a man and a woman;
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(2)
Appropriate benefits to persons who enter a marriage other than a marriage
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involving a man and a woman;
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(3)
Permit counties to issue marriage licenses to persons other than for a marriage
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involving a man and a woman;
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(4)
Treat sexual orientation as a suspect class or as a basis of prohibited
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discrimination;
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Recognize a person's belief that that person was born a gender that does not accord
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with the biological sex of the person as determined by that person's anatomy at
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birth;
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(6)
Appropriate tax dollars to pay for sex change operations;
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(7)
Ban conversion therapy. Under this subdivision, conversion therapy, means a
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therapeutic practice in which a licensed medical professional, acting under
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authorized consent, assists a client in the goal or realigning the client's sexual
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preference to prefer members of the opposite sex who have corresponding
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reproductive anatomy;
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(8)
Permit public libraries or public schools in the state to partner with nonsecular
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organizations to promote, host, sponsor, favor, or endorse drag queen storytime;
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(9)
Mandate pronoun changes;
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Condone or affirm homosexual, transgender, zoophilia, objectophilia, polygamy, or
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sexual orientation doctrines; and
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Permit a person to change the sex on a birth certificate to a sex that does not
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accord with that person's anatomy at birth.
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Section 2. That a NEW SECTION be added:
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25-11-2. Rights not affected by chapter.
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This chapter does not affect:
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(1)
Marriages between a man and a woman;
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(2)
A person's right to set the person's self-asserted, sex-based identity narrative or
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sexual orientation; and
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(3)
A person's right to practice secular humanism.
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