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opponent's suggested that the state ban teens from premarital sex, provocative clothing, eating junk food and a long list of other activities that Rep. Stace Nelson, R-Fulton, argued showed the bill's hypocrisy.
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• Medicaid expansion
• Gov. Dennis Daugaard told lawmakers in December that he wouldn't recommend expanding Medicaid, an option offered to states under the federal health care overhaul, as part of the 2014 state budget.
• Daugaard said the federal government is having trouble putting the entire overhaul into effect, and he wondered whether it could meet its pledge to pay most of the cost of the expansion.
• Supporters said an expansion was needed to improve health care for the poor, arguing that low-income residents wait until they are seriously ill before seeking medical care. They said hospitals aren't paid for that emergency care and cover the loss by boosting charges to patients with private insurance.
• President Barack Obama's health care law seeks to provide more people with insurance through subsidized private insurance offered through online marketplaces called exchanges. States also have the option of expanding Medicaid to cover people considered too poor to get the subsidized insurance.
• South Dakota's Medicaid program now covers about 116,000 children, adults and disabled people. The expanded eligibility would add an estimated 48,000 people, mostly adults without children.
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• Skeletal Remains
• Shedding light on a mystery dating back to 1971, authorities in September pulled a rusted car from an embankment in Brule Creek that contained human remains believed to be two 17-year-old high school students who disappeared on their way to a nearby party.
• The disappearance of Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson was one of the initial investigations of South Dakota's cold case unit in 2004. Authorities had made an arrest, but prosecutors dropped murder charges after discovering a prison snitch made up a supposed admission.
• Then in September, the Studebaker Lark was reported to authorities by an angler who came across the car and remembered the 42-year-old case. Record flooding followed by a drought brought the vehicle into view.
• A forensic pathologist in Sioux Falls confirmed that skeletal remains found inside the car are consistent with being from two different people. The bones have been

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