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2022 Policy Updates

SDFB Policy Update April 1, 2022

SDFB Policy Update April 15, 2022

Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act.

SDFB Policy Update May 13, 2022

SDFB Policy Update May 27, 2022

2022 Bill Tracker

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Senate Bill

SDFB Status	Bill	Purpose
	HB 1007	Codify a joint committee for legislative redistricting.
	HB 1008	Provide a cause of action for certain employees that are required to receive a vaccination as a condition of employment and to declare an emergency.
	HB 1015	Require a moment of silence in schools to begin the school day.
	HB 1032	Make an appropriation to the Board of Technical Education to construct an agriculture and diesel power laboratory and multi-purpose space on the campus of Mitchell Technical College and to declare an emergency.
	HB 1033	Expand the eligible projects for the local infrastructure improvement grant fund.
	HB 1034	Make an appropriation from the coordinated natural resources conservation fund to the State Conservation Commission and to declare an emergency.
	HB 1037	Revise the penalty for certain willful violations by grain buyers and grain warehouse operators.
	HB 1039	Provide for the assessment of certain agricultural land as noncropland.
	HB 1040	Reduce the maximum property tax levies for the general fund of school districts.
	HB 1053	Authorize counties to issue bonds for certain expenditures funded by a gross receipts tax.
	HB 1070	Clarify certain provisions of the rural access infrastructure improvements grant program.
	HB 1072	Revise the safety zone within which a firearm may be discharge or trapping activities may occur.
	HB 1081	Add solar energy tax revenue to the calculation of local effort for state aid to school districts.
	HB 1090	Require an annual report on nonmeandered waters.
	HB 1091	Authorize the Board of Regents to contract for the design and construction of a year-round rodeo practice facility on the campus of South Dakota State University, together with the equipment and furnishings, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.
	HB 1092	Make an appropriation for the precision agriculture cybersecurity CyberAg partnership initiative and to declare an emergency.
	HB 1096	Revise provisions regarding livestock identification.
	HB 1120	Include carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide capture companies in certain provisions regarding pipeline taxation.
	HB 1131	Provide for a revocation of hunting, trapping, or fishing privileges.
	HB 1137	Make an appropriation for high performance computing and data storage systems at South Dakota State University and to declare an emergency.
	HB 1156	Revise provisions regarding weed removal along highways.
	HB 1203	Require taxing districts to hold a public hearing when increasing property tax revenues relative to the previous year.
	HB 1276	Make an appropriation for the purposes of predator control and to declare an emergency.
	HB 1277	Make an appropriation to the State Conservation Commission, transfer money thereto, and to declare an emergency.
	HB 1296	Provide for the killing of mountain lions under certain circumstances.
	HB 1306	Make an appropriation to rural access infrastructure funds and declare an emergency.
	HB 1316	Revise provisions regarding soil health in resource conservation and forestry and conservation districts.
	HB 1321	Prohibit frivolous or vexatious complaints against commercial pesticide applicators and to provide a penalty therefor.
	HB 1322	Provide for the direct sale of certain home-produced or home-processed foods and food products.
	HB 1323	Increase the amount transferred into the coordinated natural resources conservation fund.
	HB 1325	Revise the classification of agricultural land according to soil type.
	HB 1327	Reduce certain gross receipts tax rates and a use tax rate, and to repeal a conditional reduction of certain gross receipts tax rates.
	HB 1330	Limit the increase of assessed valute of property tax for the purpose of taxation, and to limit the property tax due on property.
	HB 1331	Clarify the description of common carrier pipelines.
	HJR 5002	Proposing and submitting to the electors at the next general election an amendment to the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, establishing the commissioner of agriculture and natural resources as an elected constitutional officer.

	SB 35	Increase penalties for actions related to grain transactions.
	SB 38	Prohibit a grain broker from engaging in certain transactions or activities and to provide a penalty therefor.
	SB 39	Reduce the period for filing claims upon the revocation of a grain buyer license
	SB 40	To establish safety standards regarding biogas gathering in lines.
	SB 50	Make an appropriation for water, wastewater and storm water projects throughout state government, and to declare an emergency.
	SB 53	Make an appropriation to increase workforce housing and to declare an emergency.
	SB 55	Appropriate funds for the expansion of broadband infrastructure and to declare an emergency.
	SB 59	Revise property tax levies for school districts and to revise the state aid to general and special education formulas.
	SB 60	Revise the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2022.
	SB 62	Make an appropriation for eligible water, wastewater, storm water, and nonpoint source projects and to declare an emergency.
	SB 64	Make appropriations from the water and environment fund and its revolving fund subfunds for various water and environmental purposes and to declare an emergency.
	SB 73	Provide for the use of artificial light and night-vision equipment while hunting coyotes and other predators.
	SB 84	Make an appropriation for the design, renovation, and construction of a multi-purpose facility at the Cottonwood Field Station and to declare an emergency.
	SB 85	Create the ARPA water and environment fund, create a subfund, to make an appropriation therefore, and to declare an emergency.
	SB 88	Revise certain provisions regarding the State Conservation Commission and conservation districts.
	SB 102	Create the medicaid expansion fund and to provide for the receipt of monies received as a result of expanding medicaid eligibility.
	SB 126	Require closure of litigation over the recreational use of nonmeandered waters.
	SB 128	Increase the penalty for neglect, abandonment, and mistreatment of animals.
	SB 135	Revise the provisions regarding agritourism liability.
	SB 145	Provide protections and workplace safety for meat and poultry processing workers.
	SB 158	Revise provisions regarding the liability of owner or caretaker of an impounded animal.
	SB 163	Address transparency in prescription drug pricing.
	SB 166	Reduce the rate of gross receipts tax on certain food.
	SB 168	Provide public access to abandoned cemeteries.
	SB 176	Revise provisions regarding self-propelled agriculture units.
	SB 181	Require the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources to assemble a task force to study the adoption of a watershed ecosystems management approach.
	SB 184	Provide for limited elk licenses to landowners.
	SB 186	Expand Medicaid eligibility by the Legislature.
	SB 206	Provide for the assessment of certain agricultural land as noncropland.
	SCR 606	Urging the highest levels of safety and oversight in the operation of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility.

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Michael Held
SDFB Lobbyist
Email: mheld@sdfbf.org
Cell: (605) 350-0739

Krystil Smit
SDFB Executive Director
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Cell: (605) 261-2960

Matthew Bogue
SDFB State Public Policy Director
Email: matthew@sdfbf.org
Cell: 605) 377-8833