South Dakota Legislative Events

Create the homeowner property tax reduction fund, and to transfer moneys to the homeowner property tax reduction fund.

Create the water infrastructure development fund, to provide an appropriation, to provide for the awarding of grants and loans from the fund for certain rural water projects and to declare an emergency.

Make an appropriation for eligible water, wastewater, storm water, and riparian buffer initiative projects and to declare an emergency.

Regulate the retail sale of nicotine products, and to provide a penalty therefor.

Require that a state agency consult with the Aeronautics Commission prior to purchasing, transferring, or disposing of a state owned and operated aircraft.

Amend provisions pertaining to the publication of the statewide voter registration file.

Revise certain criteria for loans from the South Dakota housing infrastructure fund.

Permit a court to commit a juvenile adjudicated delinquent for certain weapons offenses to the Department of Corrections.

Require that an individual provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote and to declare an emergency.

Amend provisions pertaining to the processing of absentee ballots and to declare an emergency.

Revise requirements pertaining to the minimum age for marriage.

Clarify the eligibility of multiple garages or structures to be classified as owner-occupied.

Require the publication of the results of an election for precinct committeeman or committeewoman and to declare an emergency.

Amend the requirements for filing certain campaign finance disclosure statements.

Revise a provision related to the transportation of an inmate upon discharge from a correctional facility.

Establish procedures for anti-SLAPP actions to protect the exercise of a person's constitutional rights, including freedom of speech.

Make an appropriation for grants to support the purchase of personal protective equipment by volunteer fire departments and to declare an emergency.

Protect residents from increased utility costs and utility shortages caused by data centers and clarify authority to regulate data centers.

Modify provisions related to the South Dakota Veterans Council.

Revise the season in which a nonprofit organization may host a special pheasant hunt for disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients.

Transfer moneys and make an appropriation for the replacement of the Richmond Lake dam and spillway and to declare an emergency.

Create the capitol restoration fund and to transfer moneys thereto.

Add licensed and registered child care programs to the definition of community safety zone.

Modify the amount required to be set aside for extraordinary expenses incurred in providing special education programs.

Modify the distribution of gaming revenues.

Authorize the imposition of a county option gross receipts tax to reduce owner-occupied property taxes.

Expand the information required to be sent to the prescription drug monitoring program for each registry identification card holder.

Create a task force to study the provision of emergency medical services as an essential service and the funding thereof.

Make an appropriation to the South Dakota Board of Technical Education to construct an advanced manufacturing laboratory space and classrooms on the campus of Southeast Technical College and to declare an emergency.

Revise the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2026.

Authorize loans from the South Dakota housing infrastructure fund for airport infrastructure.

Transfer moneys to the general fund from the budget reserve fund and the general revenue replacement fund, and to declare an emergency.

Make an appropriation for the purchase of a new Division of Highway Patrol airplane and mission equipment and to declare an emergency.

Safeguard the integrity, privacy, and security of genetic data and provide a civil penalty therefor.

Revise a provision regulating delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol, THC-O acetate, and hexahydrocannabinol for persons under the age of twenty-one and to provide a penalty therefor.

Establish investigative subpoena authority to gather business records in certain investigations.

Enhance the penalties for ingestion, possession with intent to deliver, and delivery of a controlled substance in a state correctional facility.

Revise a provision related to criminal invasions of privacy, prohibit the creation and distribution of digitally fabricated material of an identifiable individual, and provide penalties therefor.

Revise provisions relating to industrial hemp.

Make appropriations for water and environmental purposes and to declare an emergency.

Create the Developmental Disability Service Delivery Committee.

Limit the types of residential improvements for which counties, municipalities, and townships may require a permit.

Appropriate money for the ordinary expenses of the legislative, judicial, and executive departments of the state, the current expenses of state institutions, interest on the public debt, and common schools.

Revise a provision related to service of process for boards of county commissioners.

Require education in prenatal human growth and development.

Except victims of human trafficking or domestic abuse from certain clemency notice requirements.

Permit the use of biological filtration systems in water recreational facilities located in certain lodging establishments.

Prohibit the electronic publication of certain information about a judicial officer or law enforcement officer and provide a penalty therefor.

Limit the ability of a health carrier to recoup, recover, or retroactively deny previously paid claims.

Prohibit the dispensing, distribution, sale, or advertisement of certain articles or things for purposes of an unlawful abortion and provide a criminal and civil penalty therefor.

Eliminate the Agricultural Land Assessment Implementation and Oversight Advisory Task Force, and to provide that the Department of Revenue receive the submission of recommendations and provide a report on agricultural value.

Eliminate an exclusion from the definition of an agricultural equipment dealer.

Make an appropriation for a non-residential, school-based, therapeutic services facility in Brown County and to declare an emergency.

Require that a property tax bill provide access to a state website providing property tax information.

Amend the definition of an abortion.

Exempt any soil amendment used exclusively for agricultural purposes from sales tax.

Revise the types of community-based providers for purposes of state funded services.

Amend provisions pertaining to the School Finance Accountability Board, and the process by which a recommendation of the board is approved.

Authorize municipalities to establish a local funding mechanism for capital improvement projects.

Repeal the special donations fund and make an appropriation to the Department of Education for the provision of a grant to support the Jobs for America's Graduates-South Dakota program.

Establish principles for a state agency to consider when formulating or implementing a program that has the potential of affecting tribal members on a reservation.

Regulate the sale of nicotine products, and to provide a penalty therefor.

Authorize counties and municipalities to issue a license for a cigar bar.

Make an appropriation for victim services provided by nonprofit organizations.

Address prior authorization and reporting requirements by utilization review organizations and health carriers.

Clarify authority for the Cosmetology Commission to credit work experience for educational hours for certain out-of-state licensure applicants, and to require the commission to promulgate rules therefor.

Modify the provisions for a refund of taxes to disabled veterans and surviving spouses under certain property tax relief programs.

Add coaches to the list of mandatory reporters of child abuse or neglect.

Define man and woman throughout the state.

Revise qualifications for immunity from prosecution following a drug-related overdose.

Revise provisions related to Division of Criminal Investigation cooperation with Indian tribes.

Amend provisions related to changing rooms, sleeping quarters, and restrooms.

Adopt the athletic trainer licensure compact.

Adopt the respiratory care interstate compact.

Permit a court to impose as a condition of probation, or parole in certain circumstances, treatment at a nonprofit entity awarded an alternative care program grant.

Require the licensure of non-medical home care agencies, and to provide a penalty therefor.

Require the sealing of court files upon dismissal or denial of a petition for a protection order.

Modify provisions pertaining to the submission of a nominating petition.

Modify the distributions of revenues collected from severance taxation on new permits.

Establish parameters for the reimbursement of school districts that provide free or reduced-price meals to students.

Consider a cultivated-protein food product to be adulterated food.

Revise a provision related to theft by a contractor, subcontractor, or supplier.

Revise property tax levies for school districts and to revise the state aid to general and special education formulas.

Make an appropriation for the expansion of broadband infrastructure and to declare an emergency.

Allow the Public Utilities Commission to assess actual costs to data centers that are customers of public utilities.

Permit the board of a school district to require that certain students receive instruction in alternative settings.

Create a taskforce to study the creation of Indian medicaid managed care entities in the state.

Make an appropriation for county rural access infrastructure and to declare an emergency.

Require that counties provide written notice to township supervisors of conditional use applications and appeals.

Modify provisions for a tax increment financing district.

Clarify the requirements for marking an optical scan ballot.

Amend the period of time before which ballots and other election materials may be destroyed following an election.

Provide additional legislative oversight of rulemaking.

Make an appropriation for roadway and related infrastructure improvements required because of construction activity at Ellsworth Air Force Base and to declare an emergency.

Temporarily prohibit the manufacture, sale, and distribution of any product containing cell-cultured protein, and to provide a penalty therefor.

Prevent virtual currency kiosk fraud.

Clarify the procedure for a potential condemnor to examine real property absent the property owner's permission.

Restrict ownership of real property interests by certain prohibited entities and to provide for enforcement.

Address search and seizure provisions applicable to digital currency.

Revise the compliance requirements for limitations on foreign ownership of agricultural land.

Authorize certain utilities to establish wildfire mitigation plans and associated liability limitations for wildfire damages.

Revise the process for requesting a veteran's certificate of discharge from a county register of deeds.

Prohibit a candidate or political committee from accepting contributions or loans made by a foreign national, to provide a penalty therefor, and to declare an emergency.

Require the reporting of funding given by certain persons and governments to institutions under the control of the Board of Regents and the South Dakota Board of Technical Education.

Increase penalties for the operation of drones over certain facilities and to provide for mitigation techniques and countermeasures.

Authorize the salvage of certain bird eggs.

Protect financial institutions taking action to prevent the financial exploitation of consenting, senior, or vulnerable adults.

Revise provisions related to serving a subpoena in a contested case.

Ensure the validity of non-compete agreements in the context of jointly owned business entities.

Modify restrictions on lands for certain public purposes.

Reschedule the date for filing certain annual reports.

Update provisions pertaining to open records.

Protect electric infrastructure in this state.

Revise certain provisions related to child support.

Update certain citations to federal regulations regarding pipeline safety inspections.

Require that any holder of a commercial driver license in this state must be proficient in the English language, and to provide a penalty therefor.

Require employment verification eligibility through the e-verify program and to provide a penalty therefor.

Appropriate money for the ordinary expenses of the legislative, judicial, and executive departments of the state, the current expenses of state institutions, interest on the public debt, and common schools.

Create the county and township infrastructure fund for the accounting, safekeeping, and allocation of unobligated rural access infrastructure fund moneys.

Modify the administration of the South Dakota-Ireland trade fund.

Modify requirements regarding nondomiciled commercial driver licenses.

Increase the penalty for preventing practice of religion.

Require that social media companies provide collected personal data of a user at the user's request and maintain transparent interoperability interfaces.

Revise provisions related to trusts.

Modify the requirements to refer an ordinance or resolution to the voters of a political subdivision.

Amend the process by which moneys are distributed from the employer's investment in South Dakota's future fund.

Establish the crime of fraudulent assisted reproduction and provide a penalty and civil liability therefor.

Revise the terms of county extension board members.

Reschedule the pharmaceutical composition of crystalline polymorph psilocybin in a drug product approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a Schedule IV controlled substance.

Address issues facing South Dakota.

Prohibit certain restrictions in employment contracts for community services providers.

Make an appropriation for the economic development of South Dakota.

Clarify and establish requirements related to forensic medical examinations.

Prohibit the misrepresentation of an animal as a service animal and to provide a penalty therefor.

Clarify the prohibition on injuring or harassing a service animal.

Modify provisions related to the practice of pharmacy.

Promote the future success and development of South Dakota.

Address issues facing South Dakota.

Adjust the assessment methodology for owner-occupied single-family dwellings and nonagricultural property.

Modify the requirements for public notice of a hearing prior to a vote to impose an excess tax levy, and to modify requirements to refer an excess tax levy of a school district to a vote.

Require the provision of interpreter or translator services for parties to an administrative contested case.

Limit the liability of law enforcement officers and others when removing a disabled vehicle from a highway, a right of way, or public waters.

Clarify bond or pre-trial release upon sobriety program participation.

Classify medetomidine as a Schedule III controlled substance and establish permissible uses.

Add certain substances to Schedule I of the controlled substances schedule.

Repeal the medical marijuana oversight committee.

Adopt the physician assistant licensure compact.

Authorize the possession and self-administration of diabetes medications by a student on school property and at school-related events and activities.

Make an appropriation to enhance the economic health of South Dakota.

Make an appropriation for the economic development prosperity of South Dakota.