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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving South Dakota Newsletter for 2026-06-19 ( 6 items )  
AARP and United Way Worldwide Expand 211 Caregiver Program to 10 New States - Increasing Support for Millions More Family Caregivers (10)
WASHINGTON, June 18 -- AARP issued the following news release on June 17, 2026 with United Way Worldwide: * * * AARP and United Way Worldwide Expand 211 Caregiver Program to 10 New States - Increasing Support for Millions More Family Caregivers Expansion into additional 211 call centers brings the program to 32 states and Puerto Rico, reaching 50% of the total U.S. population, and accessible to an estimated 36 million family caregivers - Millions more family caregivers across the country now have easier access to critical support through t more PR

Attorney General Alan Wilson defends the First Amendment rights of pro-life Americans (10)
COLUMBIA, South Carolina, June 18 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news: * * * Attorney General Alan Wilson defends the First Amendment rights of pro-life Americans Attorney General Alan Wilson recently joined a 20-state friend-of-the-court brief in support of the First Amendment right of the Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford, Illinois, at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.  The PCC of Rockford holds to a traditional Christian teaching on human life and sexuality and expect their employees to uphold th more PR

Federal Register: Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service Issues Information Collection Notice on Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement; Grasshopper & Mormon Cricket Suppression Program (10)
WASHINGTON, June 18 (TNSinfo) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued the following information collection: We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), U.S. Department of Agriculture, plans to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) to analyze the effects of a program to suppress populations of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets from rangeland in seventeen states of the western United States (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kans more PR

Rand Report: State-Level Impacts of Key Medicaid Provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (10)
SANTA MONICA, California, June 19 (TNSLrpt) -- State-Level Impacts of Key Medicaid Provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act - A report from Rand - June 18, 2026, (119 pages) - Preethi Rao, Lawrence Baker, Federico Girosi, Elaine Li, Rose Kerber, and Christine Eibner Here are excerpts: * * * On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Public Law 119-21), a massive budget reconciliation package with implications for many sectors of the U.S. economy. The law contains a series of policy changes tha more PR

S.D. A.G. Jackley Joins Bipartisan Coalition Urging Congress To Continue Legal Services for Veterans, Rural Communities (10)
PIERRE, South Dakota, June 12 -- South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Jackley Joins Bipartisan Coalition Urging Congress To Continue Legal Services for Veterans, Rural Communities South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces he has joined a bipartisan coalition of 40 Attorneys General in urging Congressional leaders to continue funding Legal Services Corporation (LSC), the nation's largest funder of civil legal aid for low-income Americans. "Everyone, regardless of th more PR

S.D. Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal of Habeas Corpus Petition (10)
PIERRE, South Dakota, June 19 -- South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley issued the following news release on June 18, 2026: * * * SD Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal of Habeas Corpus Petition South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley commends the South Dakota Supreme Court for its dismissal of a habeas corpus petition filed by Theodore Guzman. He is serving three consecutive life sentences and an additional 15-year sentence following his convictions for multiple counts of rape of a minor and sexual contact with a child. The Court, in  more PR