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require that terminal care facilities allow terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis.

This bill requires terminal care facilities to allow terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis, even though existing law lets most health care facilities restrict its use. The bill creates an exception so that patients at end-of-life care facilities cannot be prevented from using medical cannabis that they are legally authorized to possess.

establish provisions related to the disclosure of COVID-19 and mRNA vaccination status and blood donations.

Blood banks in South Dakota must ask donors whether they've received a COVID-19 or mRNA vaccine and label blood bags from vaccinated donors accordingly, without revealing the donor's identity. Patients needing non-emergency blood transfusions can request blood from either vaccinated or unvaccinated donors, and healthcare providers must honor that request if the requested blood is available and cannot refuse care based on a patient's preference.