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regulate the use of auxiliary containers.

SB54 prevents local cities and counties from banning or restricting plastic auxiliary containers (like takeout boxes), plastic beverage containers, garbage bags, straws, and other plastic packaging materials. The bill establishes that only state law—not local ordinances—can regulate these items, though it allows local governments to still require special garbage bags for waste identification and ban glass bottles in parks for safety reasons. This preemption removes the ability of South Dakota cities and towns to enact their own plastic restriction or ban ordinances.

add gravel to the definition of a mineral.

This bill adds gravel to South Dakota's legal definition of a "mineral" under state law. Previously, the definition included oil and gas but not gravel; now gravel is explicitly listed as a mineral that can be extracted from the earth for economic value. This change means gravel extraction operations may now fall under the state's mineral development and surface rights laws.