South Dakota is allocating $10 million for water infrastructure and environmental projects: $2 million for water, wastewater, and storm water projects that must be approved by the Board of Water and Natural Resources and included in the state water plan, and $8 million for riparian buffer initiatives statewide. The bill declares an emergency so the funding takes effect immediately rather than waiting for the normal legislative process.
This bill does not directly amend codified state law.
The engrossed version dramatically simplifies the bill by removing detailed grant eligibility formulas based on population size and project type, instead splitting the $10,000,000 appropriation into two flat allocations ($2,000,000 for water/wastewater/storm water projects and $8,000,000 for riparian buffer initiatives) with minimal eligibility criteria, which NARROWS and REDIRECTS the bill from a complex needs-based funding system to a more straightforward categorical grant program.
This change converts the bill from its engrossed draft version to its final enrolled version, removing the working markup indicators and legislative process notes while adding signature blocks and filing spaces for the Governor and Secretary of State—a standard procedural transformation with no substantive changes to the $10,000,000 appropriation for water, wastewater, storm water, and riparian buffer projects.
Signed by the Governor S.J. 549
Delivered to the Governor S.J. 520
Signed by the Speaker H.J. 553
Signed by the President S.J. 512
House of Representatives Do Pass Amended Passed, YEAS 61, NAYS 8. H.J. 542
Committee on Appropriations Do Pass Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 0.
Committee on Appropriations Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
First read in House and referred to House Committee on Appropriations H.J. 445
Senate Do Pass Amended Passed, YEAS 28, NAYS 5. S.J. 385
Committee on Appropriations Do Pass Amended Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 0.
Committee on Appropriations Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
Committee on Appropriations Motion to amend
Committee on Appropriations Scheduled for hearing
First read in Senate and referred to Senate Committee on Appropriations S.J. 179
Prime sponsor · Sen.
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Prime sponsor · Rep.
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Cosponsors
Do Pass Amended
Committee on Appropriations — Do Pass
Do Pass Amended
Committee on Appropriations — Do Pass Amended