2026 Regular Session

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

Sponsor: Education

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.

Sponsor: Judiciary

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.

Sponsor: Judiciary

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

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

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

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.

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

Sponsor: Josephine Garcia

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

Sponsor: Chris Karr

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.

Sponsor: Peri Pourier

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

Sponsor: John Carley

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

Sponsor: Mary Fitzgerald

Make an appropriation for victim services provided by nonprofit organizations.

Sponsor: Tim Reed

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.

Sponsor: Amber Arlint

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

Sponsor: Brian Mulder

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

Sponsor: Timothy Goodwin

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

Sponsor: Chris Kassin

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

Sponsor: Local Government

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

Sponsor: Heather Baxter

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.

Sponsor: Greg Blanc

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

Sponsor: Tony Randolph

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.

Sponsor: Mark Lapka

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

Sponsor: Randy Deibert

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

Sponsor: Chris Karr

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

Sponsor: State Affairs

Require education in prenatal human growth and development.

Sponsor: Greg Blanc

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

Sponsor: Judiciary

Revise provisions relating to industrial hemp.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Create the Developmental Disability Service Delivery Committee.

Sponsor: Leslie Heinemann

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

Sponsor: Tamara Grove

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

Sponsor: Brandon Wipf

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

Sponsor: Randy Deibert

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

Sponsor: Jon Hansen

Modify provisions pertaining to the submission of a nominating petition.

Sponsor: Amber Hulse

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

Sponsor: Mike Stevens

Create the capitol restoration fund and to transfer moneys thereto.

Sponsor: Ernie Otten

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

Sponsor: Mellissa Heermann

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

Sponsor: Amber Hulse

Adopt the respiratory care interstate compact.

Sponsor: Taylor Rehfeldt

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

Sponsor: Al Novstrup

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

Sponsor: Peri Pourier

Amend the requirements for filing certain campaign finance disclosure statements.

Sponsor: John Sjaarda

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.

Sponsor: Tesa Schwans

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

Sponsor: Amber Hulse

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

Sponsor: Sydney Davis

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.

Sponsor: Randy Deibert

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.

Sponsor: State Affairs

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

Sponsor: Military and Veterans Affairs

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

Sponsor: Timothy Goodwin

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

Sponsor: Casey Crabtree

Protect electric infrastructure in this state.

Sponsor: Commerce and Energy

Prevent virtual currency kiosk fraud.

Sponsor: Steve Kolbeck

Update provisions pertaining to open records.

Sponsor: Mary Fitzgerald

Provide additional legislative oversight of rulemaking.

Sponsor: Al Novstrup

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

Sponsor: Steve Kolbeck

Clarify the requirements for marking an optical scan ballot.

Sponsor: Greg Blanc

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

Sponsor: Mellissa Heermann

Modify provisions for a tax increment financing district.

Sponsor: Chris Karr

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.

Sponsor: Timothy Goodwin

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

Sponsor: Chris Karr

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

Sponsor: Taffy Howard

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

Sponsor: Aaron Aylward

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.

Sponsor: Tom Pischke

Revise the terms of county extension board members.

Sponsor: Marty Overweg

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

Sponsor: Amber Hulse

Provide for prescribed burning of state-owned land by a person owning adjoining land and to declare an emergency.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Amend the definition of law enforcement officer to include tribal law enforcement officers.

Sponsor: Eric Emery

Authorize the Department of Corrections to demolish the Pierre Minimum Center, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.

Revise a provision related to aggravated assault.

Sponsor: Helene Duhamel

Clarify the prohibition on injuring or harassing a service animal.

Sponsor: Timothy Goodwin

Prohibit an insurer from declining or limiting life, disability, or long-term care insurance policies based solely on an individual's status as a living organ donor.

Sponsor: Sydney Davis

Adopt the physician assistant licensure compact.

Sponsor: Sydney Davis

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

Sponsor: Taffy Howard

Prohibit certain restrictions in employment contracts for community services providers.

Sponsor: Tamara Grove

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

Sponsor: Tamara Grove

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

Sponsor: Mike Derby

Address issues facing South Dakota.

Sponsor: State Affairs

Repeal the medical marijuana oversight committee.

Sponsor: Timothy Goodwin

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.

Sponsor: Phil Jensen

Permit technical college employees to join the state health plan.

Sponsor: Paul Miskimins

Amend the reasons for challenging an individual's eligibility to vote.

Sponsor: State Affairs

Amend provisions pertaining to the duties of presidential electors.

Sponsor: Amber Hulse

Revise the child support obligation schedule.

Sponsor: Mike Stevens

Provide for the publication of ballot images and the cast vote record of automatic tabulating equipment.

Sponsor: Karla Lems

Authorize the establishment of municipal property tax rebate programs.

Sponsor: Local Government

Allow for the direct creation of a limited liability limited partnership.

Sponsor: Will Mortenson

Amend permissible uses of a school district's capital outlay fund.

Sponsor: Drew Peterson

Require that the Department of Social Services submit a federal waiver request to exclude soft drinks from the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Sponsor: Sydney Davis

Authorize the assumption of certain responsibilities and the waiver of sovereign immunity in connection with certain actions under federal environmental law.

Sponsor: Transportation

Revise procurement for highway construction contracts.

Sponsor: Transportation

Modify tax refunds for elderly persons and persons with a disability.

Honoring the 2025-2026 Canton C-Hawks boys wrestling team.

Sponsor: Kevin Jensen

Honoring the life and service of Yvonne Jane "Tiny D" DeCory, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

Sponsor: Red Foster

Honoring the life of Dale Weber, longtime president of the South Dakota Amateur Baseball Association.

Sponsor: Drew Peterson

Revise a provision related to the venue of adoption proceedings.

Sponsor: John Hughes

Recognizing the nonprofit Oaye Luta Okolakiciye "Moving Forward in a Sacred Way."

Sponsor: Red Foster

Modify provisions regarding directors serving on a farm mutual insurer’s board.

Sponsor: Casey Crabtree

Establish a greater tire weight limit for a mobile crane moving on any highway in this state.

Sponsor: Kent Roe

Provide a rebuttable presumption in favor of joint physical custody of a minor child.

Sponsor: Tom Pischke

Honoring Arthur Mauf for his dedication and service to the United States as he approaches his 100th birthday.

Sponsor: Casey Crabtree

Celebrating the life and service of Barbara Dull Knife.

Sponsor: Red Foster

Recognizing the historical significance of the buffalo and celebrating their return to tribal lands in this state.

Sponsor: Red Foster

Celebrating the Wall High School Eagles as the 2025 Class 9A State Football Champions.

Sponsor: Red Foster

Honoring Ashlan Carlow-Blount for excellence in athletics, academics, and leadership.

Sponsor: Red Foster

Establish the crime of failure to summon aid for a suicide attempt and provide a penalty therefor.

Sponsor: Carl Perry

Honoring TKO’s Custom Catering and Capitol Cafe for outstanding service.

Sponsor: Brandon Wipf

Proposing and submitting to the voters at the next general election, amendments to the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, removing the lieutenant governor as presiding officer of the Senate.

Sponsor: Steve Kolbeck

Extend the time for reverting moneys appropriated for the modernization of the state's enterprise resource planning systems.

Make an appropriation for the payment of extraordinary litigation expenses and to declare an emergency.

Commending Grey Zabel for his achievements as a member of the 2026 Super Bowl-winning Seattle Seahawks.

Sponsor: Jim Mehlhaff

Require the award of certain disbursements to prevailing owners and taxpayers in appeals of property classifications or assessments.

Sponsor: Timothy Goodwin

Celebrating the South Dakota Youth of the Year program for 2026.

Sponsor: Red Foster

Clarify the purposes permitted for certain offenders to operate a motor vehicle.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Encouraging the Executive Board of the Legislative Research Council to form an interim legislative committee to study the role and function of county boards of mental illness.

Sponsor: Erik Muckey

Revise and repeal provisions related to the crime victims' compensation program.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Codify the rights of a parent.

Sponsor: Heather Baxter

Modify provisions related to the licensure of public accountants.

Sponsor: Kyle Schoenfish

Revise provisions relating to state financial practices.

Provide a tax credit for owner-occupied property, to make an appropriation therefor, and to transfer moneys to the general fund.

Sponsor: Jon Hansen

Create requirements for age verification and parental consent for application stores and to provide a penalty therefor.

Sponsor: John Hughes

Commending the Harrisburg Tigers on their 2026 Class AA state gymnastics championship.

Sponsor: Aaron Aylward

Celebrating Solventum's expansion of its Brookings, South Dakota, manufacturing facility.

Sponsor: Mellissa Heermann

Honoring Alice Simonson of Day County, who is believed to be the oldest citizen of this state.

Sponsor: Tim Czmowski

Proposing and submitting to the voters at the next general election an amendment to the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, requiring a declaration of necessity and clarifying public use of private property taken or damaged by eminent domain.

Sponsor: Spencer Gosch

Authorize the construction of a trades center on the campus of Lake Area Technical College, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.

Sponsor: Matt Roby

Increase the annual fee required of an owner of an electric motor vehicle.

Sponsor: Keri Weems

Honoring the life and legacy of William Long IV.

Sponsor: Eric Emery

Make an appropriation to contract for a study on the length of service award programs for volunteers.

Sponsor: Tamara Grove

Modify the crime of cruelty to an animal and increase the penalty therefor.

Sponsor: Timothy Goodwin

Make an appropriation for a statewide educator retention initiative.

Sponsor: Erik Muckey

Authorize the use of bingo games, lotteries, and pull-tab devices by booster clubs.

Sponsor: Matt Roby

Remove the prohibition pertaining to the shooting of mourning doves located within specific areas.

Sponsor: Timothy Goodwin

Recognizing the significance of the monarch butterfly and encouraging cooperative, voluntary conservation efforts in South Dakota.

Sponsor: Nicole Uhre-Balk

Make an appropriation for the design and construction of a new soccer venue at South Dakota State University and to declare an emergency.

Sponsor: Mellissa Heermann

Restrict contracts and declarations that prohibit the use of commercial or residential property for any healthcare service in medically underserved areas or communities, or in areas with a medically underserved population under federal law.

Sponsor: Marty Overweg

Encouraging the review and approval of water rights applications and future use reservations from the Missouri River.

Sponsor: Joy Hohn

Create the building opportunity through out-of-school time program and the building opportunity through out-of-school time program fund, authorize a new fee, make an appropriation therefor, and transfer moneys to the building opportunity through out-of-school time program fund.

Sponsor: Liz Larson

Proposing and submitting to the voters at the next general election an amendment to the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, limiting the number of terms an individual may serve as a member of the Legislature.

Sponsor: Jack Kolbeck

Applying to the United States Congress under Article V of the United States Constitution to call for a convention proposing an amendment to the constitution fixing the number of justices of the United States Supreme Court at one chief justice and eight associate justices.

Sponsor: Greg Jamison

Make an appropriation for costs related to the suppression of wildfires impacting the state and to declare an emergency.

Make an appropriation to reimburse health care professionals who have complied with the requirements for rural recruitment assistance programs, and to declare an emergency.

Make an appropriation for costs related to emergencies and disasters impacting the state and to declare an emergency.

Revise registration fees for drones and establish a fund to support drone aviation.

Sponsor: John Shubeck

To acknowledge Glenn Muller's distinguished career and congratulate him on his achievements.

Sponsor: Larry Zikmund

Establish a manufactured housing downpayment assistance program.

Sponsor: Casey Crabtree

Deposit certain tax revenues into a homeowner tax reduction fund.

Sponsor: Casey Crabtree

Increase the income limits for a property tax assessment freeze.

Sponsor: Chris Karr

Apportion interest earnings from the unclaimed property trust fund to school districts.

Sponsor: Mark Lapka

Provide a property tax credit for the payment of nonpublic school tuition.

Sponsor: John Sjaarda

Proposing and submitting to the voters at the next general election an amendment to the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, limiting the assessed value of real property and limiting real property taxes.

Sponsor: Taffy Howard

Increase the maximum amount allowable for the livestock ownership inspection fee and to declare an emergency.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Prohibit certain political committees from accepting contributions by certain officers or employees of this state.

Sponsor: Will Mortenson

Prohibit the dissemination of location information about a public officer and provide a penalty and civil cause of action therefor.

Sponsor: Brandei Schaefbauer

Establish a new fund to provide property tax relief.

Sponsor: Mark Lapka

Require an election to approve the issuance of certain capital outlay certificates, lease-purchase contracts, or installment purchase contracts.

Sponsor: Lauren Nelson

Enhance the future of education in South Dakota.

Sponsor: Eric Emery

Provide a rebuttable presumption in favor of joint physical custody of a minor child.

Sponsor: Bobbi Andera

Allow a business owner who is a veteran to display military specialty plates on a noncommercial vehicle registered to the veteran's business and to limit personal liability to the business owner and veteran.

Sponsor: Tim Reisch

Increase fees for decals and license plates mailed to vehicle owners.

Sponsor: Randy Deibert

Recognizing the Agricultural Issues team of the West Central FFA chapter and celebrating their first-place victory in the state competition and their journey to nationals.

Sponsor: Bethany Soye

Provide for a pilot program for the implementation of a secured cryptographically end-to-end verifiable voting system in certain jurisdictions.

Sponsor: Sue Lucas-Peterson

Eliminate a limit on the accumulation of the unused index factor for property taxation.

Sponsor: Travis Ismay

Provide for the establishment of charter schools.

Sponsor: Lauren Nelson

Provide that an alcoholic beverage may be carried and consumed in enterprises connected to and in the same building as a bar or lounge.

Sponsor: Mike Weisgram

Make an exception for improvement districts from a limit on revenue growth for purposes of property taxation.

Sponsor: Randy Deibert

Impose a transaction tax and dedicate revenues collected to supplant certain property taxes, and to provide a penalty therefor.

Sponsor: Heather Baxter

Amend provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code.

Sponsor: Julie Auch

Prohibit COVID-19 vaccination requirements and to provide a penalty therefor.

Sponsor: Josephine Garcia

Remove the authorization to issue grants as part of a tax increment financing district.

Sponsor: Taffy Howard

Establish civil liability for furnishing alcohol to an obviously intoxicated person.

Sponsor: Peri Pourier

Protect persons from discrimination by financial institutions.

Sponsor: Amber Hulse

Prohibit certain persons from requiring genetic-based vaccinations.

Sponsor: Bobbi Andera

Modify requirements to create a tax increment financing district.

Sponsor: Julie Auch

Provide an additional means of determining the purchase price of a used motor vehicle acquired by gift or other transfer.

Sponsor: Timothy Goodwin

Limit the annual increase in assessed value of each owner-occupied single-family dwelling.

Sponsor: Trish Ladner

Provide an appropriation for a payment for state employee salaries.

Sponsor: Tim Reed

Require the promulgation of rules related to accessing the capitol complex and providing electronic card access to capitol access pass holders.

Sponsor: Timothy Goodwin

Require age verification before an individual may access an application from an online application store, publicly available website, electronic service, or other online platform.

Sponsor: Keri Weems

Exempt one motor vehicle of a debtor from being taken by legal process.

Sponsor: Liz Larson

Limit costs and risks associated with electricity use by data centers and impose a moratorium.

Sponsor: Erin Healy

Repeal the expiration of a reduction in certain gross receipts and use tax rates.

Sponsor: Jon Hansen

Prohibit natural asset companies.

Sponsor: Julie Auch

Establish requirements for the distribution and sale of vapor products, and to provide a penalty therefor.

Sponsor: Timothy Goodwin

Provide for indigent legal services by the Commission on Indigent Legal Services, and to provide an appropriation therefor.

Sponsor: Greg Jamison

Impose a one-year moratorium on the construction or expansion of hyperscale data centers.

Sponsor: Taffy Howard

Require that the Department of Revenue provide an annual report to Indian tribes regarding certain tax collections.

Sponsor: Tamara Grove

Amend provisions pertaining to the timing of municipal and school district elections.

Sponsor: Heather Baxter

Limit the use of taxpayer funds and resources by a public education employer to support a labor organization or affiliate and to provide a penalty therefor.

Sponsor: John Hughes

Update provisions related to certain large-use customers of utilities.

Sponsor: Taffy Howard

Honoring Custer State Park cabin owners and their property rights.

Sponsor: Timothy Goodwin

Protect residents from increased utility costs and utility shortages caused by data centers, to clarify authority to regulate data centers, and to modify provisions pertaining to the purchasing of goods and services by a data center.

Sponsor: Casey Crabtree

Revise provisions related to the practice of addiction counseling and prevention services.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Honoring James Hanssen, a member of the Bridgewater-Emery School District Board of Education, on his forty years of school board service.

Sponsor: Lana Greenfield

Revise the factors for considering deviation from the child support obligation schedule.

Sponsor: Tom Pischke

Commending and honoring the Hill City School Board on its selection as the Associated School Boards of South Dakota Outstanding School Board of South Dakota for 2025.

Sponsor: Kyle Schoenfish

Commending and honoring Richard Schlosser, a member of the Frederick Area School District Board of Education, on his twenty-five years of school board service.

Sponsor: Kyle Schoenfish

Repeal provisions related to the shared parenting child support cross credit.

Sponsor: Tom Pischke

Commending and honoring Duane Alm for his more than sixty years of dutiful service to the Aberdeen School District as an educator, administrator, and school board member, and for being the recipient of the Associated School Boards of South Dakota's School Bell Award for 2025.

Sponsor: Kyle Schoenfish

Clarify statutes governing the administration of disability benefits by the South Dakota Retirement System.

Sponsor: Retirement Laws

Revise the requirements for executive sessions and closed meetings.

Sponsor: Local Government

Enhance public education in South Dakota.

Sponsor: Liz Larson

Revise certain requirements for contesting actions of the South Dakota Retirement System.

Sponsor: Retirement Laws

Authorize the creation of land banks.

Sponsor: Timothy Goodwin

Revise the scope of practice for occupational therapy.

Sponsor: Leslie Heinemann

Ensure uniformity in member identification provisions governing the South Dakota Retirement System.

Sponsor: Retirement Laws

Adjust a limit on the percentage increase in revenue payable from property taxes.

Sponsor: Randy Deibert

Revise a provision related to the adoption of federal motor carrier regulations.

Sponsor: Transportation

Update the reference to the Internal Revenue Code to reflect current federal law for the administration of South Dakota Retirement System statutes.

Sponsor: Retirement Laws

Revise the daily meal allowance for wildland fire employees and fire suppression forces in certain circumstances.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Clarify the effect of the resignation of certain gubernatorial appointees.

Sponsor: Tom Pischke

Revise the time for conducting the canvass of an election.

Sponsor: Tony Kayser

Address the tax situation in South Dakota.

Sponsor: Liz Larson

Require the provision of a notice to consumers, interacting with certain chatbots or other human-simulating computer technologies that could mislead or deceive the consumer.

Sponsor: Liz Larson

Ban kratom and kratom products and to provide a penalty therefor.

Sponsor: Leslie Heinemann

Lower the cost threshold at which a tax increment finance base must be redetermined.

Sponsor: Scott Moore

Include certain types of vehicles in the unpaid repair bill titling process.

Sponsor: Transportation

Require licensure for online pari-mutuel wagering pools for horse and dog races, and clarify the application of tax therefor.

Sponsor: Paul Miskimins

Provide for the sale of producer-raised meat and meat food products directly to consumers pending legalization under federal law.

Sponsor: Mark Lapka

Remove the requirement that counties remit to municipalities an amount equal to the road levy for calendar years 1984, 1985, and 1986.

Sponsor: Scott Moore

Authorize the shipment of distilled spirits directly to consumers, and to provide a penalty therefor.

Sponsor: Tim Reed

Clarify the rights to appeal and refer certain decisions of boards of county commissioners.

Sponsor: Julie Auch

Amend the state aid formula for general education and for special education.

Sponsor: Jim Mehlhaff

Provide for the study of statewide transit needs and the economic impacts of public transit, and to make an appropriation therefor.

Sponsor: Matt Roby

Prohibit geoengineering in this state.

Sponsor: Bobbi Andera

Lower a maximum limit on the tax increment base value.

Sponsor: Curt Voight

Regulate the use of chatbots by minors.

Sponsor: Liz Larson

Revise certain mining statutes.

Sponsor: Nicole Uhre-Balk

Modify provisions of a report required by the Governor's Office of Economic Development on certain awards and grants.

Sponsor: Erik Muckey

Repeal the creation and budgeting for the Digital Dakota Network.

Sponsor: Commerce and Energy

Authorize the construction of a National Guard vehicle maintenance shop in Sturgis, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.

Clarify when certification of values is transmitted to the county.

Sponsor: Local Government

Revise provisions regarding notices to the one-call notification center.

Sponsor: Commerce and Energy

Permit a school district to administer epinephrine using a nasal spray.

Sponsor: Education

Authorize the recall of certain elected officials or individuals appointed to fill vacancies in certain offices.

Sponsor: Travis Ismay

Prohibit the Board of Regents and institutions under its control from requiring certain students to reside in on-campus housing or purchase meal plans.

Sponsor: Dylan Jordan

Authorize the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources to dismantle and demolish buildings on the South Dakota State Fairgrounds, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Make certain federal laws applicable to public employees.

Sponsor: Tina Mulally

Allow the parole of certain inmates sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.

Sponsor: Heather Baxter

Make an appropriation for the construction costs at the Blue Dog State Fish Hatchery, and to declare an emergency.

Revise and repeal provisions related to rape offenses and to increase the penalty therefor.

Sponsor: Travis Ismay

Limit the potency of cannabis products sold at medical cannabis dispensaries.

Sponsor: John Carley

Recognizing the YMCA for 175 years of service to youth, families, and communities in South Dakota and across the United States.

Sponsor: Jamie Smith

Cause the repeal of the medical cannabis chapter upon the federal re-scheduling of cannabis.

Sponsor: John Carley

Revise a provision related to loitering within a community safety zone.

Sponsor: Aaron Aylward

Exempt certain sales at farmers' markets from sales tax.

Sponsor: Red Foster

Increase legislative oversight procedures and protections against conflicts of interest, and to provide a penalty therefor.

Sponsor: John Carley

Prohibit a video streaming service from transmitting certain advertising during children's programming and provide a penalty therefor.

Sponsor: Tom Pischke

Honoring Ashlyn Koupal of Wagner for being named to the 2026 McDonald's All-American Girls Basketball Team.

Sponsor: Marty Overweg

Make an appropriation for providing loans to custom exempt plants and slaughtering establishments.

Sponsor: John Shubeck

Urging Congress to repeal the estate tax.

Sponsor: Dylan Jordan

Prohibit a person from refusing to identify oneself in certain circumstances and to provide a penalty therefor.

Sponsor: Sydney Davis

Require emergency personnel to use flares or emergency reflective triangles to mark stopped emergency vehicles in some circumstances.

Sponsor: Phil Jensen

Establish provisions relating to the use of military protective orders upon arrest and as evidence in an action for a protection order.

Sponsor: Helene Duhamel

Allow online access to verify registry status for organ donation.

Sponsor: Josephine Garcia

Require that courts consider as a mitigating factor during sentencing an individual's history as a victim of abuse and provide for a reduced sentence in certain circumstances.

Sponsor: Kadyn Wittman

Provide a stipend to certain members of the National Guard who donate an organ for the purpose of transplantation to another individual.

Sponsor: Keri Weems

Allow for the expungement of records pertinent to dismissed protection order cases.

Sponsor: Mike Stevens

Establish requirements and liability protection for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses serving on ambulance crews.

Sponsor: Tim Walburg

Require the inclusion of certain features within a manufacturer's application store or on a developer's application.

Sponsor: Keri Weems

Amend the process for calculating a school district's general fund base percentage.

Sponsor: Spencer Gosch

Amend provisions pertaining to calculating local effort and state aid for general education.

Sponsor: Spencer Gosch

Revise licensure provisions for electricians.

Sponsor: Josephine Garcia

Permit a court to require that a defendant participate in global position monitoring as a condition of release for certain offenses.

Sponsor: Matt Roby

Require the disclosure of whether a ballot question was proposed by initiative or by the Legislature.

Sponsor: Chris Kassin

Require that the owner of a motor vehicle removed from a body of water pay the removal costs.

Sponsor: Jim Mehlhaff

Increase thresholds for the value of and eligibility for the partners in education scholarship.

Sponsor: Leslie Heinemann

Update the reference to the Internal Revenue Code to reflect current federal law for the administration of higher education savings plans.

Sponsor: State Affairs

Provide for the admission of certain children younger than five years old to the kindergarten program of a school district.

Sponsor: Kathy Rice

Authorize the use of a drone for the location and recovery of mortally wounded deer and elk and to provide a penalty therefor.

Sponsor: Jim Mehlhaff

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

Sponsor: Logan Manhart

Provide for the licensure of certain fishing guides, and to provide a penalty therefor.

Sponsor: Roger Degroot

Revise provisions in order to strengthen protections for unborn children.

Sponsor: John Carley

Amend the school funding formula to provide for the use of an average fall enrollment when determining local need.

Sponsor: Helene Duhamel

Increase civil penalties for commercial driver violations.

Sponsor: Transportation

Clarify the use of public funds for the purpose of alternative instruction.

Sponsor: Al Novstrup

Recognizing Scouting America Day at the Capitol and celebrating Scouting America for one hundred sixteen years of service to American youth.

Sponsor: Bethany Soye

Recognizing and honoring custodial staff across the State of South Dakota for their dedication and service.

Sponsor: Julie Auch

Create a solid background license plate for South Dakota.

Sponsor: Transportation

Require that certain mental health information be submitted to and subsequently removed from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

Sponsor: Erik Muckey

Require that the Department of Health annually report on public health effects of cannabis use.

Sponsor: John Carley

Establish provisions for homeownership through shared equity agreements.

Sponsor: Al Novstrup

Urging the United States Department of Homeland Security to establish a tribal law enforcement training academy in South Dakota.

Sponsor: Eric Emery

Require that a voter use a black ink ballpoint pen when marking an optical scan ballot.

Sponsor: Logan Manhart

Provide a sales and use tax exemption for goods and services related to data center operations.

Sponsor: Casey Crabtree

Commending and honoring the 2024-2025 Outstanding School Administrators of South Dakota: Dr. Jeff Danielsen, Watertown, School Superintendent; Bo Beck, Aberdeen, Middle School Principal; Connie Alspach, Dupree, School Business Official; Jay Swatek, Tea, Elementary School Principal; Kelly Messmer, Harding County, Secondary School Principal; Sherri Nelson, Brandon Valley, Curriculum Leader; and Monica Waltman, Douglas, Director of Special Education.

Sponsor: Lana Greenfield

Clarify that consent for the donation of ovum or sperm must be explicit.

Sponsor: Josephine Garcia

Recognizing February as National Career and Technical Education and National Career and Technical Student Organizations Month.

Sponsor: Drew Peterson

Require that annual withdrawal of groundwater from any groundwater source may not exceed the annual recharge of water to the groundwater source.

Sponsor: Scott Odenbach

Recognizing February as National Career and Technical Education and National Career and Technical Student Organizations Month.

Sponsor: Casey Crabtree

Create small-batch alcohol licenses.

Sponsor: Jim Mehlhaff

Provide a sales tax holiday on firearms.

Sponsor: Eric Emery

Restrict the use of artificial intelligence in therapy and psychotherapy services and to provide a penalty therefor.

Sponsor: Taylor Rehfeldt

Require that all recorded votes of a legislator be displayed on the Legislative Research Council website.

Sponsor: Greg Blanc

Require the use of certain geographic terminology in official materials of a state agency.

Sponsor: John Carley

Proposing and submitting to the voters at the next general election an amendment to the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, repealing the requirement to provide expanded medicaid.

Sponsor: Aaron Aylward

Address the assumption of risk by an individual present at a shooting range.

Sponsor: John Carley

Require the licensure of certain individuals performing installation of radon mitigation systems and provide a penalty therefor.

Sponsor: Tom Pischke

Revise the conditions for denial or restriction of a motor vehicle or motorcycle operator license or permit if an individual has a medical condition that can be controlled under the care of a physician.

Sponsor: John Sjaarda

Celebrating the St. Mary’s Cardinals as the 2025 Class 9B state football champions.

Sponsor: Jon Hansen

Supporting the secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture in establishing a working group of nutrition experts to determine national standards for foods and beverages purchased with supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits.

Sponsor: Chris Karr

Make an appropriation to implement the rural health transformation program, and to declare an emergency.

Revise a provision related to unauthorized possession of a controlled drug or substance.

Sponsor: Julie Auch

Permit the use of a ballot on demand system and to declare an emergency.

Sponsor: State Affairs

Impose a moratorium on industrial dairy operations.

Sponsor: Timothy Goodwin

Encouraging the use of physical cash in transactions.

Sponsor: John Sjaarda

Amend provisions pertaining to the tabulation of ballots and permit the release of any cast vote record and collection of ballot images produced by automatic tabulating equipment and to declare an emergency.

Sponsor: State Affairs

Clarify provisions related to the licensure of certified social workers in private, independent practice and establish an alternative to the licensure examination.

Sponsor: Taylor Rehfeldt

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

Sponsor: John Sjaarda

Congratulating and honoring Joyce Waddell on her retirement from the Bison School District.

Sponsor: Jana Hunt

Authorize the recall of county commissioners.

Sponsor: Travis Ismay

Create a pilot program in the Unified Judicial System to develop a pretrial release program.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorize purchasing agency verification and monitoring of workers' compensation insurance coverage obtained by public improvement contractors.

Sponsor: Sue Lucas-Peterson

Celebrating the Harrisburg Tigers as the 2025 Class AA state gymnastics champions.

Sponsor: Aaron Aylward

Require that corrected information be posted at least twenty-four hours prior to a meeting of a political subdivision.

Sponsor: Mary Fitzgerald

Honoring Madisen Younie of Rapid City, South Dakota Girls State Governor, and Brody Tynan of Sioux Falls, South Dakota Boys State Governor, and the South Dakota American Legion and Auxiliary for their sponsorship and coordination of the Girls State and Boys State programs.

Sponsor: Jessica Bahmuller

Supporting January as National Blood Donor Month.

Sponsor: Mike Derby

Direct the amendment of the Administrative Rules of South Dakota regarding the awarding of high school credit for participation in extracurricular athletics.

Sponsor: Lauren Nelson

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

Sponsor: Taffy Howard

Exempt certain individuals from, and require specific notice for, jury duty.

Sponsor: John Sjaarda

Discontinue the issuance of new Class B electrician licenses.

Sponsor: Commerce and Energy

Require publication of notices of gubernatorial appointments and reappointments.

Sponsor: Mary Fitzgerald

Establish the lifetime registration of and license fees for certain small trailers.

Sponsor: Dylan Jordan

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

Sponsor: Eric Emery

Provide requirements related to the cardiac health evaluation of minors.

Sponsor: Eric Emery

Increase the amounts required in a motor vehicle liability policy.

Sponsor: John Sjaarda

Urging this state's congressional delegation to end foreign aid programs pending control of the United States debt situation.

Sponsor: Aaron Aylward

Prohibit the sale of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol products to individuals under the age of twenty-one.

Sponsor: Kent Roe

Modify the tax rate on gold severed in this state.

Sponsor: Michael Rohl

Revise the duties of the Transportation Commission to include responsibilities of the South Dakota Railroad Board and the South Dakota Aeronautics Commission.

Sponsor: Transportation

Authorize the issuance of no-trespass orders by private security officers, require the establishment of buffer zones per written no-trespass orders, and afford municipalities greater authority to regulate trespass.

Sponsor: Eric Emery

Provide for the licensure of fishing and hunting guides, and to provide a penalty therefor.

Sponsor: Curt Voight

Clarify application of the seventy-two hour notice requirement to website posting.

Sponsor: Mary Fitzgerald

Recognizing the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Sponsor: Kadyn Wittman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Revise the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2026.

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

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

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

Modify the distribution of gaming revenues.

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

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

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

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

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

Adopt the respiratory care interstate compact.

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

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

Amend the requirements for filing certain campaign finance disclosure statements.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Make an appropriation for victim services provided by nonprofit organizations.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Require education in prenatal human growth and development.

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

Update certain citations to federal regulations regarding pipeline safety inspections.

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

Address search and seizure provisions applicable to digital currency.

Revise certain provisions related to child support.

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

Modify restrictions on lands for certain public purposes.

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

Reschedule the date for filing certain annual reports.

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

Clarify the requirements for marking an optical scan ballot.

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

Modify provisions for a tax increment financing district.

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

Authorize the salvage of certain bird eggs.

Increase the penalty for preventing practice of religion.

Revise provisions related to trusts.

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

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

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

Provide for prescribed burning of state-owned land by a person owning adjoining land and to declare an emergency.

Amend the definition of law enforcement officer to include tribal law enforcement officers.

Authorize the Department of Corrections to demolish the Pierre Minimum Center, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.

Revise a provision related to aggravated assault.

Clarify the prohibition on injuring or harassing a service animal.

Prohibit an insurer from declining or limiting life, disability, or long-term care insurance policies based solely on an individual's status as a living organ donor.

Adopt the physician assistant licensure compact.

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

Prohibit certain restrictions in employment contracts for community services providers.

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

Amend and repeal provisions pertaining to the ballot requirements for certain elections and to declare an emergency.

Amend provisions pertaining to the duties of presidential electors.

Provide for the publication of ballot images and the cast vote record of automatic tabulating equipment.

Revise the description of certain highways included in the state trunk highway system.

Update provisions related to the permit application process for proposed energy and transmission facilities.

Amend the type of entities eligible to participate in the cybersecurity services initiative.

Allow for the direct creation of a limited liability limited partnership.

Revise the application requirements for special license plates and parking permits for individuals with disabilities.

Modify provisions regarding directors serving on a farm mutual insurer’s board.

Establish a greater tire weight limit for a mobile crane moving on any highway in this state.

Modify provisions for a tax collection agreement with an Indian tribe.

Authorize the establishment of municipal property tax rebate programs.

Revise and repeal provisions related to the crime victims' compensation program.

Clarify the purposes permitted for certain offenders to operate a motor vehicle.

Make an appropriation for the payment of extraordinary litigation expenses and to declare an emergency.

Amend the reversion date for moneys appropriated to the Department of Education to improve and renovate the Cultural Heritage Center.

Revise provisions relating to state financial practices.

Revise provisions regarding pesticide laws.

Increase the annual fee required of an owner of an electric motor vehicle.

Make an appropriation to reimburse health care professionals who have complied with the requirements for rural recruitment assistance programs, and to declare an emergency.

Make an appropriation for costs related to the suppression of wildfires impacting the state and to declare an emergency.

Make an appropriation for the design and construction of an addition to the existing swine wean-to-finish barn at South Dakota State University and to declare an emergency.

Make an appropriation for the design and construction of a new soccer venue at South Dakota State University and to declare an emergency.

Amend provisions pertaining to the timing of municipal elections.

Increase fees for decals and license plates mailed to vehicle owners.

Allow a business owner who is a veteran to display military specialty plates on a noncommercial vehicle registered to the veteran's business and to limit personal liability to the business owner and veteran.

Revise the daily meal allowance for wildland fire employees and fire suppression forces in certain circumstances.

Modify fees charged by the clerk of courts for certain copies of court records.

Include certain types of vehicles in the unpaid repair bill titling process.

Repeal income modifications for the bank franchise tax pertaining to bad debts.

Revise the requirements for executive sessions and closed meetings.

Modify the requirements for open meeting agendas and provide a penalty therefor.

Ensure uniformity in member identification provisions governing the South Dakota Retirement System.

Update the reference to the Internal Revenue Code to reflect current federal law for the administration of South Dakota Retirement System statutes.

Remove the five percent calculation requirement from the county budgetary process.

Provide for the sale of producer-raised meat and meat food products directly to consumers pending legalization under federal law.

Remove the requirement that counties remit to municipalities an amount equal to the road levy for calendar years 1984, 1985, and 1986.

Revise procedures for returning and withholding security deposits for residential premises.

Modify provisions related to the controlled substances schedule and to declare an emergency.

Modify the annual fee imposed on certain concentrated animal feeding operations.

Update the official code of laws.

Provide that a firearm silencer is not a controlled weapon.

Provide for a refund of property taxes in previous years for qualifying veterans and surviving spouses.

Authorize the transfer of certain surplus real property by the Department of Game, Fish and Parks to the Spearfish Canyon Foundation for a public purpose.

Modify requirements for ambulance operators.

Clarify when agency financial resource information must be filed in the permanent administrative rulemaking process.

Require that agencies promulgating permanent rules publish the rules and associated rulemaking forms on a state website.

Increase thresholds for the value of and eligibility for the partners in education scholarship.