Updates from South Dakota Farm Bureau
Michael Held, South Dakota Farm Bureau's lobbyist, is at the Capitol representing our members during the Legislative Session.
Contact for Questions:
Michael Held
SDFB Lobbyist
Email:
mheld@sdfbf.org
Cell:
(605) 350-0739
Read bi-weekly policy updates from Dani Hanson:
Policy Update - August 7, 2020
SDFB Public Comment Letter Regarding DOT Mowing Dates
Policy Update - August 21, 2020
Policy Update - September 4, 2020
SD Farm Bureau Public Comment Regarding Pheasant Season
Policy Update - September 18, 2020
Policy Update - October 2, 2020
Policy Update - October 16, 2020
SDFB Policy Overview July 14, 2020
Dani Hanson, SDFB's Director of Public Policy, recently gave a brief overview of SDFB's new backgrounders and provided a short update on policy happenings in Pierre since the 2020 Legislative Session. She also provided helpful suggestions to prepare policy for the fall. Please contact Dani Hanson, Director of Public Policy with any questions regarding this update.
Dani@sdfbf.org
(605)209-6021
2020 Bill Tracker
Key:
SDFB Supports
SDFB Keeping track
SDFB Opposes
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 1189 | Make an appropriation to expand rural access to broadband services and to declare an emergency. |
| 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 161 | Exempt certain real property from the special maintenance fee levy. |
| 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. |