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of the bill, which added a requirement that a school district must decide in a public meeting whether to arm teachers and others. Another Senate amendment allowed school district residents to push a school board's decision to a public vote.
• Craig said he couldn't say how a typical district would implement a sentinel policy, as those decisions will be made locally.
• "They get to work out the details in the days ahead," he said. "They've just kind of been waiting and watching to see if this even would pass."
• Monson said school districts are going to want to know how the bill's passage will affect them.
• "Our biggest challenge right now will be answering all the questions that school boards and administrators are going to have about liability issues and all the other pieces that haven't been put in place yet," Monson said.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard on Friday announced that he signed a bill extending in some cases what is already the nation's longest waiting period for a woman to receive an abortion.
• Women seeking abortions in South Dakota currently must wait three days after seeing an abortion clinic doctor before they can have the procedure. The bill makes it so weekends and holidays do not count in calculating the three-day waiting period.
• Supporters say the change ensures women have time to receive required counseling at pregnancy help centers, which discourage abortions.
• Opponents say the measure could hamper many women seeking abortions.
• "We are very disappointed that the state is further burdening women with medically unnecessary waiting periods for abortion," Sarah Stoesz, president of Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, said in a statement. "These decisions that women and families are faced with are deeply personal and complex. Politicians have no place interfering with the personal medical decisions of women and families."
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