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provide for a court order to test for HIV at the request of victims of certain crimes.

HB1061 allows crime victims to request a court order requiring someone arrested for certain violent crimes (like sexual assault) to be tested for HIV, and requires the results to be shared with the victim. This creates a new legal process for victims to learn whether they may have been exposed to HIV during the crime, rather than having no official way to get this information.

revise certain provisions regarding victims of sexual assault.

# HB 1179 Summary This bill expands protections and services for sexual assault victims by allowing them to request anonymity when reporting crimes and ensuring their identities aren't disclosed in court proceedings without consent. The law also requires law enforcement and prosecutors to inform victims of their rights, including the option to have a victim advocate present during interviews and legal proceedings.

revise certain provisions regarding the collection and storage of sexual assault kit evidence.

# HB1180 Summary This bill updates South Dakota's rules for how law enforcement collects, handles, and stores sexual assault kits to improve evidence preservation and tracking. The changes establish clearer procedures for documenting when kits are received, stored, and tested, and require better inventory management to prevent evidence from being lost or destroyed.

temporarily revise the statute of limitations for bringing a civil action for certain cases of child sexual abuse.

HB1269 extends the time period that child sexual abuse survivors have to file a lawsuit against their abusers or the institutions that failed to protect them. Instead of the current deadline, survivors would have additional years to bring civil cases forward, giving more people a realistic opportunity to seek justice after disclosing abuse that often occurred years or decades earlier.

revise provisions regarding rape.

# SB107 Summary SB107 revises South Dakota's rape laws by removing the spousal exemption, meaning a person can now be prosecuted for sexually assaulting their spouse—a crime previously excluded from rape statutes. The bill also expands the definition of rape to include additional non-consensual sexual acts beyond traditional penetration, broadening the scope of what conduct is criminalized.

require certain products contain digital blocking capability, establish a deactivation fee, establish the human trafficking and child exploitation prevention fund, and provide a penalty therefor.

# HB1154 Summary This bill requires certain products—likely devices or apps used for communication—to include digital blocking technology that allows users to prevent contact from specific people, and establishes a fee when this blocking feature is deactivated or removed. Revenue from these deactivation fees would go into a new fund dedicated to preventing human trafficking and child exploitation. Businesses that fail to comply with these requirements would face penalties.

establish certain provisions regarding training for human trafficking prevention.

# HB 1241 Summary This bill requires certain businesses and organizations in South Dakota to train their employees on how to recognize and report human trafficking. The law applies to hotels, transportation companies, healthcare providers, and other establishments that frequently interact with the public, making them frontline defenders against trafficking.

revise visitation rights of a person causing conception by rape or incest.

SB143 eliminates visitation and custody rights for individuals who conceived a child through rape or incest. Currently, South Dakota law allows courts to consider visitation in these cases; this bill removes that possibility entirely, preventing perpetrators of rape or incest from having legal contact with or custody of any resulting children.

revise provisions regarding civil forfeitures.

# HB1174 Summary HB1174 strengthens protections for property owners in civil forfeiture cases by requiring law enforcement to meet a higher standard of proof and by allowing property owners to more easily challenge the government's seizure of their assets. The bill also limits how law enforcement can use forfeited property and requires clearer notice to owners about their rights when property is taken.

provide a criminal penalty for causing an abortion against a pregnant mother's will.

HB1193 makes it a crime for someone to intentionally cause an abortion without a pregnant woman's consent, treating it as a serious offense similar to other crimes against the person. The bill creates a new criminal penalty to protect pregnant women from having abortions forced upon them against their will. This adds a specific crime to South Dakota law that didn't previously exist as its own distinct offense.

establish immunity from liability for injuries to or the death of a person engaged in off-road vehicle activity under certain circumstances.

HB1117 provides legal protection to landowners and property managers who allow people to use their land for off-road vehicle activities—meaning they cannot be sued if someone is injured or killed while riding ATVs, dirt bikes, or similar vehicles on that property. The law creates an exception to this immunity if the landowner was grossly negligent or intentionally caused harm, or if they charged a fee for access to the land.

revise certain provisions regarding support obligations.

# HB 1106 Summary This bill modifies how child support and spousal support obligations are calculated and enforced in South Dakota. The specific changes affect the income calculations used to determine support amounts, adjustments for shared parenting time, and procedures for modifying or terminating support orders based on changed circumstances.

define activities that constitute human trafficking.

# HB1198 Summary HB1198 expands South Dakota's definition of human trafficking to clarify which specific activities count as trafficking crimes. The bill adds detail to what constitutes trafficking—such as recruiting, transporting, harboring, or advertising people for labor or sexual exploitation—to ensure prosecutors and law enforcement have clear guidance on prosecuting traffickers.

establish a fund to receive civil recoveries to offset costs incurred by riot boosting, to make a continuous appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.

SB189 creates a special fund to collect money from civil lawsuits and settlements related to riot damages, with that money used to pay for state costs of responding to and recovering from riots. The fund is set up as a continuous appropriation, meaning the state can spend collected money without needing approval each year, and the bill declares an emergency so these provisions take effect immediately.