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revise certain provisions regarding manufactured home construction and safety standards.

This bill updates South Dakota's manufactured home safety standards to reflect current federal regulations instead of outdated 1990 standards, requiring the State Fire Marshal to enforce construction rules that match federal standards as of January 1, 2020. The change ensures manufactured homes built and sold in South Dakota meet more recent safety requirements set by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

revise tenant and landlord rights.

HB1168 updates South Dakota's eviction laws by clarifying the legal grounds landlords can use to remove tenants through a forcible detainer action. The bill specifically adds a new provision allowing evictions when a tenant violates a material term of their written lease agreement, expanding the reasons beyond non-payment of rent or holding over after lease expiration. This gives landlords an additional tool to enforce lease terms beyond the three-day rent payment deadline currently specified in law.

revise certain provisions regarding the county zoning and appeals process.

This bill creates a new legal standard for who can challenge county zoning decisions, requiring that people must show they suffered a specific, concrete injury (not just a general public concern) that is unique to them and directly caused by the zoning action they're contesting. It also requires county zoning ordinances to clearly spell out which conditional uses are allowed in each zoning district and what criteria will be used to approve or deny them. These changes make it harder for people to sue over zoning decisions unless they can prove they were personally and uniquely harmed, while making the zoning approval process more transparent.

establish certain provisions regarding pore spaces.

This bill creates new state law establishing that landowners automatically own the pore spaces (natural cavities and voids) beneath their property, and this ownership cannot be separated from the surface land title. However, landowners can still lease out pore space to others, and the law doesn't affect any pore space deals that were already completed before July 1, 2020.