TOPICAL INDEX
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Abandoned Tank
Underground tank cleanup program, created.
Adjustment Training Center
Adjustment training center employee training for certain employees, rule
amended.
Administrative Appeal
Administrative appeal to circuit court, purpose for change of venue revised.
Administrative Rules
Veterans service officers, annual testing required.
Administrative rules to be reviewed before rules are filed with Secretary of
State.
Water supply and treatment system operator certification provisions revised.
Access to state highways, administrative rules to regulate access authorized.
Adjustment training center employee training for certain employees, rule
amended.
Car Insurance, notice of nonrenewal provisions revised.
School districts required to report on usage of long-term substitute teachers.
Electronic transactions, regulated.
Underground tank cleanup program, created.
South Dakota accepts land from the United States for outdoor recreational
purposes.
Nursing facility administrator licensure renewal or reactivation, provisions
revised.
Managed care, requirements for health carriers revised.
Home inspectors regulated.
Motor vehicle fuel, methyl tertiary butyl ether regulated.
Psychologist, provisional licensure allowed.
Medical records, Division of Insurance to promulgate rules to regulate.
Adoption
Adoption petition, time for filing revised.
Advanced Practice Nurses
Advanced practice nurses, license renewal provisions revised.
Agricultural Income Value
Agricultural income value used to determine agricultural land assessments,
pilot study.
Agricultural Land Assessment
Agricultural income value used to determine agricultural land assessments,
pilot study.
Real property valuation appeals, certain costs allowed.
Alcoholic Beverage
Underage consumption of alcoholic beverages, court jurisdiction revised.
Underage possession or consumption of alcoholic beverage, jurisdiction
over the offense revised.
Alcoholic beverage sting operations regulated.
Farm winery license provisions revised.
Alcoholic beverage license, number of licenses that may be issued to one
person revised.
Alcoholic beverage license, grounds for revocation or suspension revised.
Adult may not give or sell alcoholic beverage to a minor.
Merchant may detain person who attempts to illegally purchase tobacco
products or alcoholic beverages.
Retailer defense to charge of selling alcoholic beverage to underage person.
Improvement districts, authority granted to regulate alcoholic beverage
licensees.
Alcoholic beverage, number of temporary on-sale licenses municipality
may issue, revised.
Alcoholic beverage licenses, additional licenses for convention facilities allowed
for Deadwood.
Ambulance District
Ambulance districts, special assessment authority provided.
Ambulance districts, provisions revised.
Annual Assessment of Property
Annual assessment of property, provisions revised.
Board for the equalization of assessments, time period to meet revised.
Assessed Valuation
Assessed valuation by director of equalization, presumption of correctness
revised.
Median value per acre, identifiable region used.
Lots or tracts assessed to same person, procedure revised.
Board for the equalization of assessments, time period to meet revised.
Attorney Fees
Attorney fees, forcible entry and detainer, reasonable fee allowed.
Attorney General
Identity theft, crime created.
Driver's license revocation for vehicular homicide, period of time revised.
Audit Finding
Audit finding, subsequent finding results in required report to Appropriations
Committee.
Automated External Defibrillator
Automated external defibrillator, immunity for placement and use.
Average Daily Membership
Special education various provisions revised.
Ballot
Ballot marks and recount procedure revised.
Banks
Regulated lenders, disclosure of customer information regulated.
Bank franchise tax, provision revised.
Benefit Plans
Benefit plans exempt from legal process, provisions revised.
Bicycles
Confiscated or abandoned bicycles to be given to charitable organizations.
Biological Specimens
Biological specimens, collection from criminals provisions revised.
Blanket Insurance
Blanket insurance defined as group health insurance.
Board of Regents
Special education funds may be used for certain initiatives.
Boats
Boating and snowmobile accident reporting procedures revised.
Boundary Change
Municipality boundary change, notice to the Department of Revenue required.
Bureau of Administration
Debt collection, postsecondary technical institutes may use the Bureau of
Administration to collect debt.
Bureau of Finance and Management
Postsecondary technical institutes, building authority funds transferred to the
health and education facility authority for certain projects.
Candidate
A candidate's financial statement, filing period revised.
County commission, candidate must be resident of the district when the
declaration of candidacy is signed.
Car Insurance
Car insurance damage claims, duty of insurers and rights of consumers defined.
Car Insurance, notice of nonrenewal provisions revised.
Cemetery
Machinery that may be purchased to maintain municipal cemetery, provisions
revised.
Child Abuse and Neglect
Persons required to report child abuse, list expanded.
Child Pornography
Child pornography, computer-related depiction prohibited.
Child Welfare Agency
Child welfare agency licenses revised.
Chiropractors
Chiropractors, physical exams for high school athletes, authorized to give.
Chiropractors, licensure renewal date revised.
Church Benefit Plans
Church benefit plans exempt from insurance provisions.
Cigarette Taxes
Cigarette taxes, payment required in certain instances.
Class 1 Misdemeanor
Identity theft, crime created.
Transporter license plates, Department of Revenue may issue.
Home inspectors regulated.
Adult may not give or sell alcoholic beverage to a minor.
Motor vehicle broker, prohibited.
Dead bodies, penalties increased for violating provisions relating to disposition
and records.
Class 2 Misdemeanor
Game and fish storage and transportation, requirements revised.
Night-vision equipment, use in hunting activities prohibited.
Towing company must notify law enforcement when removing a motor vehicle
from a public highway.
Cremation laws, penalty for violations.
Conflict of Interest
Contracts between governmental entities exempt from certain conflicts
of interest.
Constitutional Amendment
Allows the investment of the permanent school funds in certain financial
instruments.
Consumer Installment Sales Contract
Cash sale price, definition revised.
Installment sales contract, nonpayment fee.
Contested Case
Human rights dispute, equal access to records.
Contribution Rate
Class A employee and employer contributions to the South Dakota Retirement
System increased by one percent.
Controlled Substances
Controlled substances, schedule revised.
Cooperatives
Cooperatives, quorum to be set in bylaws.
Cosmetology
Temporary cosmetology permits, expiration period changed.
County Board of Mental Illness
County board of mental illness members, immune from civil liability.
County Commission
Planning and zoning statutes revised.
County commission, candidate must be resident of the district when the
declaration of candidacy is signed.
Drainage permit fee increases authorized.
County Poor Relief
County poor relief, indigent definition revised.
County Road and Bridge Fund
County road and bridge funds, expenditure limit revised.
Crime
Identity theft, crime created.
Vehicular homicide and battery, marijuana added to elements of crime.
Rape, definition revised.
Underage possession or consumption of alcoholic beverage, jurisdiction over
the offense revised.
Hazardous devices, prohibition on public lands.
Bigamy, elements of the crime revised.
Property purchased at public auction, removal from state under certain
conditions is presumed to be theft.
Student violations of law or threats, law enforcement may report.
Protection order, who may apply, provisions revised.
Crime of stalking or assault, defendant may not contact victim.
Cremation laws, penalty for violations.
Criminal Background Checks
Criminal background checks for school employees.
Death Penalty
Death penalty may not be imposed on a person with mental retardation.
Debt Collection
Debt collection, postsecondary technical institutes may use the Bureau of
Administration to collect debt.
Delinquent Child
Underage consumption of alcoholic beverages, court jurisdiction revised.
Delinquent Property Taxes
Delinquent property taxes, procedure to give notice and collect the taxes,
revised.
Department of Agriculture
Northern Crops Institute, special appropriation.
Agricultural policy, office created.
Department of Commerce and Regulation
Human rights dispute, equal access to records.
Car insurance damage claims, duty of insurers and rights of consumers defined.
Insurance licensees, different treatment between licensees eliminated and
monetary penalties allowed.
Surplus lines insurer, additional grounds for ineligibility listed.
Temporary cosmetology permits, expiration period changed.
South Dakota Insurance Guaranty Association, provisions revised.
Nursing facility administrator licensure renewal or reactivation, provisions
revised.
Medications or drug samples may be provided by certain health care
practitioners under certain conditions.
Simulcast racing operations, regulation revised.
Motor carrier enforcement officers and inspectors, duties defined and revised.
Driver education course from other state may be used to meet restricted minor's
permit requirements.
Managed care, requirements for health carriers revised.
Blanket insurance defined as group health insurance.
Advanced practice nurses, license renewal provisions revised.
Health insurance on a franchise plan, certain provisions revised.
Department of Corrections
Mechanical restraints, use regulated.
Child in custody of Department of Corrections, periodic court review.
Department of Education and Cultural Affairs
School districts required to report on usage of long-term substitute teachers.
High school diplomas awarded to certain World War II and Korean War
veterans.
Debt collection, postsecondary technical institutes may use the Bureau of
Administration to collect debt.
Open enrollment revised.
Public school teachers reimbursed for national certification.
Education programs authorized and provisions revised.
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Water supply and treatment system operator certification provisions revised.
South Dakota Water and Environment Fund, authorized expenditures.
Underground tank cleanup program, created.
Department of Game, Fish, and Parks
Park license needed for certain designated areas.
Hunting, fishing, or trapping privileges revoked upon certain convictions.
South Dakota accepts land from the United States for outdoor recreational
purposes.
Game and fish storage and transportation, requirements revised.
Night-vision equipment, use in hunting activities prohibited.
Boating and snowmobile accident reporting procedures revised.
Migratory birds, waterfowl, and small game, certain provisions regulating
hunting and licenses revised.
Hunting and fishing licensing agents, bonding procedures revised.
Motor fuel tax distribution to game, fish and parks, revised.
Nonresident waterfowl hunting license limit increased.
Department of Health
Immunization to enter school, provisions revised.
Controlled substances, schedule revised.
Nursing facility bed moratorium continued.
Health care facilities, lodging, food service or campground establishments,
licensure provisions revised.
Department of Human Services
Training program for interpreters for the deaf, Department of Human Services
authority repealed.
Mental illness provisions revised.
Persons with developmental disabilities, provisions revised.
Tobacco prevention and reduction program and trust fund created.
Department of Labor
Workers' compensation managed care plans, provisions revised.
Unemployment compensation, procedure to assign industry codes to employers
changed.
Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
Special appropriation of $25,000 to support the USS South Dakota battleship
memorial.
Department of Revenue
Multi-state compact for sales and use tax collection system, authorization for
Governor to enter.
Cigarette taxes, payment required in certain instances.
Transporter license plates, Department of Revenue may issue.
Motor vehicle dealer permit, increased fee permitted.
Motor vehicle registration and license canceled if registration fee paid with a
dishonored check.
Property and sales tax refunds, income eligibility revised.
Tax refunds to the elderly and disabled.
Municipality boundary change, notice to the Department of Revenue required.
Internal revenue code, dates pertaining to references to the code revised.
Statewide sales tax permit, Department of Revenue authorized to grant.
Real property valuation appeals, certain costs allowed.
Department of Social Services
Special appropriation from special racing fund to Department of Social Services
for certain abuse shelter programs.
Long-term nursing care, transfer of certain funds allowed.
Child welfare agency licenses revised.
Work and education activity requirements established for welfare program in
Department of Social Services.
Department of Transportation
Access to state highways, administrative rules to regulate access authorized.
Underground tank cleanup program, created.
Developmental Disabilities
Persons with developmental disabilities, provisions revised.
DNA
Biological specimens, collection from criminals provisions revised.
Domestic Abuse
Special appropriation from special racing fund to Department of Social Services
for certain abuse shelter programs.
Domestic abuse protection order, temporary order in effect until party served.
Domestic abuse, arrest report information revised.
Drainage Permit
Drainage permit fee increases authorized.
Driver Education
Driver education course from other state may be used to meet restricted minor's
permit requirements.
Driver's License
Driver's license revocation for vehicular homicide, period of time revised.
Motorcycle operator permits, provisions revised.
Elections
Polling places, the time for opening and closing, revised.
Election board members, the procedure to appoint, revised.
A candidate's financial statement, filing period revised.
Initiated measures, period to circulate petitions before election revised.
Municipal government, process to change form revised.
Electronic Signature
Electronic transactions, regulated.
Electronic Transactions
Electronic transactions, regulated.
Emergency Clause
Park license needed for certain designated areas.
South Dakota Water and Environment Fund, authorized expenditures.
Controlled substances, schedule revised.
Specialty license plates, certain provisions revised.
Extracurricular Activities
Chiropractors, physical exams for high school athletes, authorized to give.
Farm Winery
Farm winery license provisions revised.
Fee
Motor vehicle dealer permit, increased fee permitted.
Installment sales contract, nonpayment fee.
Tax sale, uniform fee for redemption set.
Attorney fees, forcible entry and detainer, reasonable fee allowed.
Felony
HIV, intentional exposure made a crime.
Rape, definition revised.
Hazardous devices, prohibition on public lands.
Sex acts between employees and prisoners made a felony.
Internet gambling prohibited.
Motor vehicle broker, prohibited.
Insurance agent guilty of felony, may seek license after rehabilitation.
Fetus
Nontherapeutic research restricted.
Fetus defined.
Financial Responsibility
Financial support, family members responsibility.
Financial Statement
A candidate's financial statement, filing period revised.
Findings of Fact
Findings of fact, standards of review revised.
Franchise
Recreational vehicle dealers included in franchise protections.
Full and True Value
Full and true value definition used in relation to tax assessments.
Gaming or Racing License
Gaming or racing license, grounds for refusal or revocation.
General Appropriations
The General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2000, amended.
General appropriations for the ordinary expenses of state government.
Government Operations and Audit
Audit finding, subsequent finding results in required report to Appropriations
Committee.
Governor
Underground tank cleanup program, created.
General fund for a school district, property tax levies revised.
Tax refunds to the elderly and disabled.
Conservation Commission, special appropriation.
South Dakota accepts land from the United States for outdoor recreational
purposes.
Bank franchise tax, provision revised.
Grants
Special appropriation from special racing fund to Department of Social Services
for certain abuse shelter programs.
Health Benefit Plan
Health benefit plans issued before July 1, 1996, certain reforms required.
Managed care, requirements for health carriers revised.
Church benefit plans exempt from insurance provisions.
Health Care Facilities
Municipality may donate land to certain health care facilities.
Health care facilities, lodging, food service or campground establishments,
licensure provisions revised.
Health Care Professionals
Health care professionals may form certain business arrangements.
Health Insurance
Usual, customary and reasonable charges required to be disclosed by insurers.
County poor relief, indigent definition revised.
Managed care, requirements for health carriers revised.
Blanket insurance defined as group health insurance.
Health insurance on a franchise plan, certain provisions revised.
Certain mandated health benefits extended to certain health insurance products.
Health insurance, coverage required for off-label use of certain drugs.
HIV
HIV, intentional exposure made a crime.
Home Inspectors
Home inspectors regulated.
Hunting, Fishing, and Trapping
Hunting, fishing, or trapping privileges revoked upon certain convictions.
Public hunting on school lands must be on foot.
South Dakota accepts land from the United States for outdoor recreational
purposes.
Game and fish storage and transportation, requirements revised.
Night-vision equipment, use in hunting activities prohibited.
Migratory birds, waterfowl, and small game, certain provisions regulating
hunting and licenses revised.
Hunting and fishing licensing agents, bonding procedures revised.
Nonresident waterfowl hunting license limit increased.
Immunization
Immunization to enter school, provisions revised.
Improvement District
Improvement districts, authority granted to regulate alcoholic beverage licensees.
Industrial Development Board
Industrial board, local board composition revised.
Inheritance Tax
Inheritance tax, waiver or compromise of interest provided.
Initiated Measures
Initiated measures, period to circulate petitions before election revised.
Insurable Interest
Insurable interest, financial institution may acquire interest to the extent of debt.
Insurance Licensees
Insurance licensees, different treatment between licensees eliminated and
monetary penalties allowed.
Insurance agent guilty of felony, may seek license after rehabilitation.
Insurer
Insurable interest, financial institution may acquire interest to the extent of debt.
Insurers, material acquisition or disposal of assets disclosure requirements
revised.
Insurer and affiliate transactions, provision repealed.
Insurers, list of acceptable investments increased.
Interest Rate
Rate of interest on property tax certificates and delinquent taxes, revised.
Interim Committee Bill
Underage consumption of alcoholic beverages, court jurisdiction revised.
Health benefit plans issued before July 1, 1996, certain reforms required.
Class A employee and employer contributions to the South Dakota Retirement
System increased by one percent.
Assessed valuation by director of equalization, presumption of correctness
revised.
Median value per acre, identifiable region used.
Full and true value definition used in relation to tax assessments.
Administrative rules to be reviewed before rules are filed with Secretary of State.
Aberdeen ambulance attendants removed as Class B members of the South
Dakota Retirement System.
Benefit improvements made for South Dakota Retirement System members.
Annual assessment of property, provisions revised.
Internet Gambling
Internet gambling prohibited.
Interpreters for the Deaf
Training program for interpreters for the deaf, Department of Human Services
authority repealed.
Interstate Compact
Multi-state compact for sales and use tax collection system, authorization for
Governor to enter.
Interstate Nurse Licensure Compact
Interstate Nurse Licensure Compact, enacted to permit South Dakota's
participation in the compact.
Investigative Records
Human rights dispute, equal access to records.
Investment
Management and use of investments by certain institutions regulated.
Juvenile Corrections
Juvenile Corrections, monitor and study created.
Persons required to report child abuse, list expanded.
Sex acts between employees and prisoners made a felony.
Juvenile correctional facility, placement of child in facility after appropriate
review and finding.
Mechanical restraints, use regulated.
Child in custody of Department of Corrections, periodic court review.
Landowner
Special districts, procedure to form and adjust boundaries revised.
Legal Presumption
Assessed valuation by director of equalization, presumption of correctness
revised.
Legislature
Audit finding, subsequent finding results in required report to Appropriations
and finding Committee.
Legislative per diem increased.
Codify legislation passed in 1999.
License Plates
Specialty license plates, certain provisions revised.
Limited Liability Business Entities
Health care professionals may form certain business arrangements.
Nurses may form limited liability business entities.
Liquidated Court Costs
Liquidated court costs increased for indigent defense.
Lodging, Food Service, or Campground
Health care facilities, lodging, food service or campground establishments,
licensure provisions revised.
Managed Care
Workers' compensation managed care plans, provisions revised.
Managed care, requirements for health carriers revised.
Manufactured or Mobile Home
Manufactured or mobile homes, requirements for moving revised.
Marriage
Marriage contracted outside of state, certain provisions revised.
Bigamy, elements of the crime revised.
Median Value
Median value per acre, identifiable region used.
Medical Records
Medical records, Division of Insurance to promulgate rules to regulate.
Mental Illness
Mental illness provisions revised.
Monetary Penalties
Insurance licensees, different treatment between licensees eliminated and
monetary penalties allowed.
Cigarette taxes, payment required in certain instances.
Hazardous devices, prohibition on public lands.
Motor Carrier Enforcement Officer
Motor carrier enforcement officers and inspectors, duties defined and revised.
Motor Carrier Inspector
Motor carrier enforcement officers and inspectors, duties defined and revised.
Motor Vehicle
Service contracts regulated.
Motor vehicle leasing, method to tax revised.
Motor vehicle, definition of rental vehicle for purpose of tax revised.
Specialty license plates, certain provisions revised.
Motor vehicle registration and license canceled if registration fee paid with a
dishonored check.
Towing company must notify law enforcement when removing a motor vehicle
from a public highway.
Livestock hauling, certain provisions revised.
Motor vehicle excise tax, who may pay clarified.
Vehicle traffic control when traffic control lights are not working.
Motor vehicle accident, notice requirements revised.
Motorcycle mufflers, alteration or modification prohibited.
Motor Vehicle Broker
Motor vehicle broker, prohibited.
Motor Vehicle Dealer
Motor vehicle dealer permit, increased fee permitted.
Motor vehicle manufacturer may exercise right of first refusal if certain
conditions are met.
Motor vehicle dealership, transfer, assignment, or sale regulated.
Motor vehicle dealerships, ownership regulated.
Motor Vehicle Fuel
Motor vehicle fuel, methyl tertiary butyl ether regulated.
Motor fuel tax distribution to game, fish and parks, revised.
Motor Vehicle Insurance
Car Insurance, notice of nonrenewal provisions revised.
Motor Vehicle Manufacturer
Motor vehicle manufacturer may exercise right of first refusal if certain
conditions are met.
Motor vehicle dealership, transfer, assignment, or sale regulated.
Motorcycles
Motorcycle operator permits, provisions revised.
Motorcycle mufflers, alteration or modification prohibited.
Municipality
Industrial board, local board composition revised.
Municipal sewer charges, method to determine revised.
Municipal government, process to change form revised.
Municipality may donate land to certain health care facilities.
Municipality boundary change, notice to the Department of Revenue required.
Special assessment, municipal assessment provisions revised.
Machinery that may be purchased to maintain municipal cemetery, provisions
revised.
Planning and zoning statutes revised.
Oaths, who may administer, revised.
Water and sewer services, municipal responsibility outside of boundaries
clarified.
Alcoholic beverage, number of temporary on-sale licenses municipality may
issue, revised.
Drainage permit fee increases authorized.
Commissioner responsibilities, time to assign responsibility revised.
Night-Vision Equipment
Night-vision equipment, use in hunting activities prohibited.
Nonprofit Corporation
Nonprofit corporations, method to amend articles of incorporation revised.
Nurse Midwives
Medications or drug samples may be provided by certain health care
practitioners under certain conditions.
Nurse Practitioner
Medications or drug samples may be provided by certain health care
practitioners under certain conditions.
Nurses
Nurses may form limited liability business entities.
Nursing Facility
Nursing facility bed moratorium continued.
Nursing Facility Administrator
Nursing facility administrator licensure renewal or reactivation, provisions
revised.
Nursing Home
Long-term nursing care, transfer of certain funds allowed.
Oath
Oaths, who may administer, revised.
Open Enrollment
Open enrollment revised.
Owner-Occupied Single Family Dwelling
Owner-occupied single-family dwelling classification revised.
Parental Rights
Parental rights, termination proceedings made final after certain date.
Park License
Park license needed for certain designated areas.
Per Diem
Legislative per diem increased.
Personal Information
Regulated lenders, disclosure of customer information regulated.
Medical records, Division of Insurance to promulgate rules to regulate.
Petition Circulator
Initiated measures, period to circulate petitions before election revised.
Circulation of petitions, verification and who can circulate, revised.
Petitions
Initiated measures, period to circulate petitions before election revised.
Circulation of petitions, verification and who can circulate, revised.
Physician
Physician may perform tasks related to performing an abortion.
Physician Assistant
Medications or drug samples may be provided by certain health care
practitioners under certain conditions.
Planning and Zoning
Planning and zoning statutes revised.
Polls
Polling places, the time for opening and closing, revised.
Postsecondary Technical Institutes
Debt collection, postsecondary technical institutes may use the Bureau of
Administration to collect debt.
Postsecondary technical institutes, building authority funds transferred to the
health and education facility authority for certain projects.
Precinct Election Board
Election board members, the procedure to appoint, revised.
Professions and Occupations
Psychologist, provisional licensure allowed.
Public Contracts
Conservation easement for certain state lands.
Public Employee
Aberdeen ambulance attendants removed as Class B members of the South
Dakota Retirement System.
Benefit improvements made for South Dakota Retirement System members.
South Dakota Retirement System, actuary study.
Deferred compensation fund for public employees, certain provisions repealed
and investment officer authority revised.
Public Employer
Aberdeen ambulance attendants removed as Class B members of the South
Dakota Retirement System.
Benefit improvements made for South Dakota Retirement System members.
South Dakota Retirement System, actuary study.
Public Records
Public records, electronic storage allowed.
Real Estate Licensee
Real estate licensees, no duty to disclose registered sex offender information.
Residential rental agent, defined.
Real Property
Conservation easement for certain state lands.
Real property valuation appeals, certain costs allowed.
Real estate taxes, due date revised.
Recount
Ballot marks and recount procedure revised.
Restricted Minor's Permit
Motorcycle operator permits, provisions revised.
Restricted minor's permit, certain violations will not result in suspension.
Rules Review
Administrative rules to be reviewed before rules are filed with Secretary of
State.
Sales and Use Tax
Multi-state compact for sales and use tax collection system, authorization for
Governor to enter.
Auctioneers, sales tax provisions revised.
Property and sales tax refunds, income eligibility revised.
Statewide sales tax permit, Department of Revenue authorized to grant.
Sales and service tax, exemption for certain events.
School Board
School buses may be used for civic purposes.
School term revised.
Federally regulated charter bus service, authority to provide bus service to
schools clarified.
Food service company management contracts, limits on terms.
Ten Commandments, public schools may display.
School Bus
School buses may be used for civic purposes.
Federally regulated charter bus service, authority to provide bus service to
schools clarified.
School District
School districts may not transfer funds from the general fund to the capital
outlay fund.
Immunization to enter school, provisions revised.
Birth certificates for students, filing requirements revised.
School buses may be used for civic purposes.
School districts required to report on usage of long-term substitute teachers.
School term revised.
High school diplomas awarded to certain World War II and Korean War
veterans.
General fund for a school district, property tax levies revised.
Special education various provisions revised.
Federally regulated charter bus service, authority to provide bus service to
schools clarified.
Criminal background checks for school employees.
Food service company management contracts, limits on terms.
Ten Commandments, public schools may display.
School District General Fund
School districts may not transfer funds from the general fund to the capital
outlay fund.
General fund for a school district, property tax levies revised.
Tax levy for school district general fund and the effect of student discipline,
revised.
Seized Property
Disposition of seized property, sale procedure revised.
Service Contract
Service contracts regulated.
Sewer Charges
Municipal sewer charges, method to determine revised.
Sex
Sex acts between employees and prisoners made a felony.
Sex Offender
Rape, definition revised.
Real estate licensees, no duty to disclose registered sex offender information.
Sexual Abuse
Special appropriation from special racing fund to Department of Social Services
for certain abuse shelter programs.
Rape, definition revised.
Simulcast Racing Operations
Simulcast racing operations, regulation revised.
Snowmobiles
Boating and snowmobile accident reporting procedures revised.
South Dakota Insurance Guaranty Association
South Dakota Insurance Guaranty Association, provisions revised.
South Dakota Retirement System
Class A employee and employer contributions to the South Dakota Retirement
System increased by one percent.
Aberdeen ambulance attendants removed as Class B members of the South
Dakota Retirement System.
Benefit improvements made for South Dakota Retirement System members.
South Dakota Retirement System, actuary study.
Special Appropriation
Special appropriation from special racing fund to Department of Social Services
for certain abuse shelter programs.
South Dakota Water and Environment Fund, authorized expenditures.
Northern Crops Institute, special appropriation.
Tax refunds to the elderly and disabled.
Conservation Commission, special appropriation.
Special appropriation of $25,000 to support the USS South Dakota battleship
memorial.
Tobacco prevention and reduction program and trust fund created.
Public school teachers reimbursed for national certification.
Special Assessment
Ambulance districts, special assessment authority provided.
Special assessment, municipal assessment provisions revised.
Municipal special assessment provisions, previous enactment repealed.
Special District
Special districts, procedure to form and adjust boundaries revised.
Special Education
Special education state aid, criteria for inclusion for certain children changed.
Special education various provisions revised.
Special education funds may be used for certain initiatives.
Stalking
Crime of stalking or assault, defendant may not contact victim.
State Aid to Education
Special education state aid, criteria for inclusion for certain children changed.
State Dessert
Kuchen declared to be the official state dessert.
State Highways
Access to state highways, administrative rules to regulate access authorized.
State trunk highway system revised.
Strip Search
Strip searches, not allowed for curfew violations.
Student
Birth certificates for students, filing requirements revised.
School term revised.
Student violations of law or threats, law enforcement may report.
Substitute Teachers
School districts required to report on usage of long-term substitute teachers.
Supreme Court
Findings of fact, standards of review revised.
Surplus Line Insurance
Surplus lines insurer, additional grounds for ineligibility listed.
Taxes
Median value per acre, identifiable region used.
Full and true value definition used in relation to tax assessments.
Multi-state compact for sales and use tax collection system, authorization for
Governor to enter.
Cigarette taxes, payment required in certain instances.
Lots or tracts assessed to same person, procedure revised.
Motor vehicle leasing, method to tax revised.
Motor vehicle, definition of rental vehicle for purpose of tax revised.
Property and sales tax refunds, income eligibility revised.
General fund for a school district, property tax levies revised.
Tax refunds to the elderly and disabled.
Bank franchise tax, provision revised.
Annual assessment of property, provisions revised.
Special assessment, municipal assessment provisions revised.
Owner-occupied single-family dwelling classification revised.
Tax levy for school district general fund and the effect of student discipline,
revised.
Tax sale, uniform fee for redemption set.
Delinquent property taxes, procedure to give notice and collect the taxes,
revised.
Rate of interest on property tax certificates and delinquent taxes, revised.
Motor vehicle excise tax, who may pay clarified.
Ambulance districts, provisions revised.
Real estate taxes, due date revised.
Teachers
School districts required to report on usage of long-term substitute teachers.
School term revised.
Criminal background checks for school employees.
Public school teachers reimbursed for national certification.
Education programs authorized and provisions revised.
Telecommunication Access Fee
Telecommunications access fee, reporting and collection clarified.
Telecommunications Company
Telecommunications companies, date for certain company promotions revised.
Ten Commandments
Ten Commandments, public schools may display.
Testing
Veterans service officers, annual testing required.
Theft
Identity theft, crime created.
Tobacco Product
Tobacco products, imported products regulated.
Merchant may detain person who attempts to illegally purchase tobacco
products or alcoholic beverages.
Tobacco Settlement Money
Tobacco settlement money deposited in the state treasury.
Tobacco prevention and reduction program and trust fund created.
Traffic Control
Vehicle traffic control when traffic control lights are not working.
Transporter Plates
Transporter license plates, Department of Revenue may issue.
Trusts and Estates
Trust and estate administration, provisions revised.
Unemployment Compensation
Unemployment compensation, procedure to assign industry codes to employers
changed.
Uniform Commercial Code
Uniform Commercial Code, secured transactions revised.
Uniform Probate Code
Uniform Probate Code, written objections to conservator's annual accounting.
Uniform Probate Code, duties of court representative.
Uniform Probate Code, estate closing procedures revised.
Notice to parties in estate litigation.
Vehicular Homicide or Battery
Vehicular homicide and battery, marijuana added to elements of crime.
Vehicular battery, presumption related to alcohol in blood revised.
Venue
Administrative appeal to circuit court, purpose for change of venue revised.
Veterans Service Officers
Veterans service officers, annual testing required.
Vital Records
Dead bodies, penalties increased for violating provisions relating to disposition
and records.
Voter
Special districts, procedure to form and adjust boundaries revised.
Water and Environment Fund
South Dakota Water and Environment Fund, authorized expenditures.
Water and Sewer Connections
Water and sewer services, municipal responsibility outside of boundaries
clarified.
Water Development District Board
Water development district board members method to pay expenses revised.
Water Treatment and Distribution Systems
Water supply and treatment system operator certification provisions revised.
Weeds or Pests
Liability assigned if legal action is taken to prevent or delay the control or
eradication of weeds or pests.
Workers Compensation
Workers' compensation managed care plans, provisions revised.
Workers' compensation, certain benefits increase applied prospectively.
Workforce Development Initiative
Work and education activity requirements established for welfare program in
Department of Social Services.