The amendment added four additional legislators as co-introducers (Duhamel, Vilhauer, Aylward, Heermann, and Rice) and corrected a hyphenated number from "ninety-11 seven" to "ninety-seven" years of combined service, but made no substantive changes to the bill's purpose of honoring these seven school administrators.
26.823.9 101st Legislative Session SC805 2026 South Dakota Legislature Senate Commemoration 805 Introduced by: Senators Schoenfish, Crabtree, Deibert, Duhamel, Hulse, Otten, Perry, Reed, Vilhauer, Wipf, and Zikmund and Representatives Greenfield, Aylward, Bahmuller, Emery, Goodwin, Heermann, Jordan, Kull, Moore, Muckey, Novstrup, Pourier, Reisch, Rice, Roby, and Sjaarda Underscores indicate new language. Overstrikes indicate deleted language. A LEGISLATIVE COMMEMORATION commending and honoring the 2024-2025 1 Outstanding School Administrators of South Dakota: Dr. Jeff Danielsen, 2 Watertown, School Superintendent; Bo Beck, Aberdeen, Middle School 3 Principal; Connie Alspach, Dupree, School Business Official; Jay Swatek, Tea, 4 Elementary School Principal; Kelly Messmer, Harding County, Secondary 5 School Principal; Sherri Nelson, Brandon Valley, Curriculum Leader; and 6 Monica Waltman, Douglas, Director of Special Education. 7 WHEREAS, these administrators have been elected by their peers for outstanding service 8 and dedication to education; and 9 WHEREAS, the combined years of service to the people of South Dakota and to the children 10 and youth of South Dakota of these seven educational administrators is one hundred ninety-11 seven ninety-seven years; and 12 WHEREAS, each of these educators has demonstrated both a sincere interest in our 13 children as well as superior skills in their chosen field of educational administration; 14 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT COMMEMORATED, by the One Hundred First Legislature of the 15 State of South Dakota, that Dr. Jeff Danielsen, Bo Beck, Connie Alspach, Jay Swatek, Kelly 16 Messmer, Sherri Nelson, and Monica Waltman are named as official representatives of the 17 School Administrators of South Dakota and shall continue their efforts to improve the 18 educational opportunities for the children of this state. 19