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2020 Bill Tracker

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House Bill

SDFB Status	Bill	Purpose
	HB 1006	Authorize the secretary of revenue to contract with certain entities for purposes of maintaining a database to determine agricultural income value and to specify the mandatory and permissive data of the database.
	HB 1007	Require certain adjustments to the assessed value of agricultural land if factors impact the land's productivity and to require those adjustments to be documented.
	HB 1008	Legalize the growth and production of industrial hemp and derivative products in the state, and to declare an emergency.
	HB 1025	Revise certain provisions regarding plugging and performance bonds for oil and gas wells.
	HB 1027	Make an appropriation from the coordinated natural resources conservation fund to the State Conservation Commission and to declare an emergency.
	HB 1028	Revise certain provisions regarding pesticide registration and application.
	HB 1035	Make an appropriation from the water and environment fund and its revolving fund subfunds for various water and environmental purposes, to revise the water resources projects list, and to declare an emergency.
	HB 1042	Revise the special education property tax levy for school districts and to revise the state aid to special education formula.
	HB 1043	Revise the property tax levies for the general fund of school districts and to revise the state aid to education formula.
	HB 1049	Establish a maximum on the number of words contained in a statement of a proponent or opponent for the ballot question pamphlet.
	HB 1053	Revise certain provisions regarding the submission process for ballot measures.
	HB 1059	Revise certain provisions regarding hunting with drones
	HB 1071	Revise provisions regarding surface water quality complaints.
	HB 1084	Increase the maximum allowable height of certain vehicles carrying baled feed and to declare an emergency.
	HB 1093	Establish a pipeline liability fund, to authorize a special fee for extraordinary expenses, and to make a continuous appropriation therefor.
	HB 1095	Revise requirements regarding hunting mentors.
	HB 1099	Authorize counties to impose a temporary sales and use tax and to issue revenue bonds to fund certain county infrastructure construction.
	HB 1100	Make an appropriation to begin the research and development of a new bioprocessing facility and to declare an emergency.
	HB 1111	Revise provisions regarding the qualifications to serve on the Game, Fish and Parks Commission.
	HB 1112	Authorize the hiring of law enforcement officers by the South Dakota State Brand Board.
	HB 1118	Revise the boundaries of certain water development districts and to revise certain provisions regarding the election of the board of directors and the levying of taxes in the affected districts.
	HB 1124	Provide for an increase in the assessment against certain treated land.
	HB 1159	Revise provisions regarding the referral of opt outs made by school districts.
	HB 1166	Revise provisions regarding the appointment of inactive watershed district boards and the reactivation of watershed districts.
	HB 1171	Require commercial pesticide applicators to maintain proof of financial responsibility.
	HB 1181	Revise certain provisions regarding bounties for coyotes.
	HB 1184	Provide limited deer and antelope licenses to landowners.
	HB 1197	Require testing of moisture meters and protein-measuring devices.
	HB 1198	To repeal provisions regarding maximum taxes levied by the board of a school district for the capital outlay fund.
	HB 1199	Require certain annexation information be provided to electric utilities.
	HB 1200	Establish dates for the mowing of ditches on the state trunk highway system.
	HB 1202	Revise provisions regarding certain sales and use tax rates.
	HB 1220	Accomodate legislation enhancing education.
	HB 1223	Provide for the creation of an international business and trade office.
	HB 1227	Make an appropriation for the rural veterinary medical education program and to declare an emergency.
	HB 1229	Accommodate legislation related to electric service in a newly annexed area.
	HB 1236	Revise provisions regarding the management of the animal damage control program.
	HB 1238	Permit modification of the term of a perpetual conservation easement after the death of the grantor.
	HB 1248	Revise the motor vehicle license fee for certain older trucks.
	HB 1252	Grant property tax relief to certain persons who are long-term residents and long-term property owners.
	HB 1254	Require a habitat stamp for certain hunting, fishing, canoeing, kayaking, and jet skiing activities.
	HB 1257	Revise certain provisions regarding hunting, fishing, or trapping on private property without permission.
	HB 1262	Revise provisions regarding electric service in annexed areas.
	HB 1270	To revision provisions regarding agricultural land classifications for tax purposes.
	HB 1274	Establish the Tax Revenue Study Task Force to study tax revenue in this state.
	HB 1284	Create a road improvement priority fund, to provide for the distribution of the fund, and to repeal certain sales tax exemptions.
	HB 1286	Regulate capital outlay expenditures.
	HB 1291	Appropriate money for the ordinary expenses of the legislative, judicial, and executive departments of the state, the expenses of state institutions, interest on the public debt, and for common schools.
	HB 1292	Make an appropriation to expand rural access to broadband services and to declare an emergency.

Senate Bill

SDFB Status	Bill	Purpose
	SB 17	Make an appropriation for the plugging and surface reclamation of natural gas wells and to declare an emergency.
	SB 22	Revise certain provisions regarding pesticide registration, pesticide application, and enforcement of pesticide laws.
	SB 24	Revise the fees for pesticide registration, private applicator licenses, commercial applicator licenses, and pesticide dealer licenses.
	SB 36	Transfer funds from the budget reserve fund and to declare an emergency.
	SB 38	Revise the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2020.
	SB 45	Transfer the functions of the South Dakota Value Added Finance Authority to the South Dakota Economic Development Finance Authority and the South Dakota Board of Economic Development and to abolish the South Dakota Value Added Finance Authority.
	SB 57	Provide for the assessment of certain agricultural land as non-cropland.
	SB 63	Establish certain provisions regarding pore spaces.
	SB 67	Provide an option to sparse school districts regarding the amount of taxes collected in the capital outlay fund.
	SB 68	Authorize a county gross receipts tax.
	SB 70	Authorize other languages to be used in the process of issuing certain driver licenses and permits.
	SB 75	Provide for a habitat stamp on hunting and fishing licenses.
	SB 76	Provide for the assessment of certain agricultural land as non-cropland.
	SB 79	Modify provisions regarding the building of fences across certain unimproved highways.
	SB 90	Revise the distribution of motor fuel tax revenue, create a small structure and large culvert fund provide for the use and administration of the fund, and to make an appropriation thereof.
	SB 94	Revise provisions for taxes levied by the board of school district for the capital outlay fund.
	SB 102	Provide certain procedures regarding the effect of initiated measures and amendments.
	SB 111	Exclude certain wind energy tax revenue from the state aid to education formula.
	SB 113	Revise certain provisions regarding instruction permits and restricted minor's driving permits.
	SB 122	Impose a severance tax on the quarrying of certain minerals.
	SB 125	Revise provisions regarding the exemption from taxation of certain substances used for agricultural purposes.
	SB 151	Define critical infrastructure and revise certain crimes for the trespass or damage to critical infrastructure.
	SB 154	Affect broadband in South Dakota.
	SB 157	Revise certain provisions regarding the county zoning and appeals process.
	SB 158	Accommodate legislation regarding refined agricultural products.
	SB 163	Establish certain restrictions on the foreign ownership of agricultural land.
	SB 165	Require all wind energy facilities to include an aircraft detection lighting system.
	SB 168	Limit the amount of other revenue that is counted as local effort in the state aid to education formula.
	SB 170	Revise certain provisions regarding school district capital outlay funds.
	SB 174	Revise the purposes for which a school district's capital outlay fund may be used.
	SB 175	Accommodate legislation related to meetings and records of rural electric cooperatives.
	SB 178	Increase funding for counties and townships by increasing the excise tax rate on motor fuel.
	SB 184	Revise provisions regarding electric service in annexed areas.