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SD SB192

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/29/2026

Primary Sponsor

Taffy Howard

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Origin

Senate

2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Increases the minimum blighted area requirement for creating a tax increment financing (TIF) district from 25% to 50% of the real property within the district by area

  • Changes the qualifying criteria from requiring blight OR economic development potential to requiring BOTH blight AND economic development potential simultaneously

  • Removes "predominance of open space with obsolete platting, diversity of ownership, or deterioration of structures or site improvements" from the list of qualifying conditions for a blighted area designation

  • Removes "diversity of ownership" as a standalone qualifying factor for blight, retaining only tax or special assessment delinquencies exceeding fair land value

  • Updates terminology throughout, including changing "insanitary" to "unsanitary" and "site or other improvements" to "land or structures affixed to the land"

Legislative Description

Modify the blight requirements for purposes of creating a tax increment financing district.

Economic Development

Last Action

Taxation Tabled, Passed, YEAS 4, NAYS 0. S.J. 17

2/20/2026

Committee Referrals

Taxation1/29/2026

Full Bill Text

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