Session Law Chapter 15
CHAPTER 15
(SB 194)
Create a Wind Energy Competitive Advisory Task Force.
FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to create a Wind Energy Competitive Advisory Task Force
and to provide for the appointment of the task force members.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
Section 1. There is hereby established the Wind Energy Competitive Advisory Task Force.
The task force shall consist of the following eleven members:
(1) The speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint two members of the House
of Representatives;
(2) The speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint two members of the
general public;
(3) The president pro tempore of the Senate shall appoint two members of the Senate;
(4) The president pro tempore of the Senate shall appoint two members of the general
public; and
(5) The Governor shall appoint three members of the general public.
The initial appointments shall be made no later than July 1, 2011, and shall serve until
January 1, 2012. If there is a vacancy on the task force, the vacancy shall be filled in the same
manner as the original appointment.
The task force shall review South Dakota wind energy taxation and incentives and shall
advise the Governor and Legislature regarding the competitive atmosphere of wind energy
incentives and taxation among the several states.
The task force shall make recommendations as to the proper mechanisms to tax wind energy
and compete with surrounding states for the construction and maintenance of wind energy
installations.
Section 2. The Wind Energy Competitive Advisory Task Force shall be under the
supervision of the Executive Board of the Legislative Research Council and staffed and funded
as an interim legislative committee. The Legislative Research Council may receive additional
funds from any legal source to carry out the purposes of this Act. The executive board shall
designate the chair and the vice chair of the task force.
Signed March 15, 2011