Changes to Existing Law

For the purposes of this title, the term, residence, means the place in which a person has fixed his or her habitation and to which the person, whenever absent, intends to return. A person who has left home and gone into another state or territory or county of this state for a temporary purpose only has not changed his or her residence. A person is considered to have gained a residence in any county or municipality of this state 100 copies were printed on recycled paper by the South DakotaLegislative Research Council at a cost of $.167 per page.v Insertions into existing statutes are indicated by underscores.Deletions from existing statutes are indicated by overstrikes. - 2 -HB 1129 in which the person actually lives, if the person has no present intention of leaving. If a person moves to another state, or to any of the other territories, with the intention of making it his or her permanent home, the person thereby loses residence in this state voting, a qualified elector may have only one residence, shown by an actual fixed permanent dwelling, establishment, or any other abode to which the person returns when not called elsewhere for labor or other special or temporary purposes. A qualified elector retains a residence in this state until another residence has been gained.7

Every person who, at the time of an election, has been a resident of this state who shall be of the age of for at least thirty days prior to the election, is eighteen years and upwards of age or older, is not otherwise disqualified, who shall have complied and complies with the7 provisions of law relating to the regarding registration of voters shall be entitled to may vote at8 any election in this state.