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provide certain procedures regarding the effect of initiated measures and amendments.

This bill establishes a new rule for resolving conflicts when both South Dakota voters approve an initiated measure or constitutional amendment and the Legislature passes a law affecting the same topic. The initiated measure or amendment will take effect if it has a later effective date than the conflicting legislative act, or if both have the same effective date; additionally, if the Legislature repeals a law that voters just amended through an initiative, the voter-approved amendment will override the repeal.

repeal certain provisions regarding initiated measures.

SB 112 removes requirements that petition circulators for initiated constitutional amendments must disclose to signers whether they are volunteers or paid, and if paid, how much they're being compensated. The bill eliminates this transparency provision that was previously required on the form given to each person signing an initiated amendment petition.

repeal and revise certain provisions regarding the petition circulation process.

SB 180 revises the rules for how people can circulate petitions in South Dakota by amending the petition circulation process requirements in state law. The bill makes changes to §10-56-22, though the specific details of those changes are not fully visible in the provided text excerpt. To give you a complete summary of what petition rules are being changed, I would need to see the full text of the bill's amendments.

Rescinding House Joint Resolutions calling for a constitutional convention for the sole purpose of changing the Constitution of the United States.

South Dakota is withdrawing previous calls it made for a national constitutional convention to amend the U.S. Constitution. This resolution cancels out earlier requests the state had submitted asking Congress to convene such a convention.

revise certain provisions regarding the submission process for ballot measures.

This bill requires sponsors of ballot measures to submit their proposed initiatives to the Legislative Research Council for review at least six months before they can start collecting signatures, ensuring the measures meet legal requirements and don't have unintended fiscal impacts on the state. The bill clarifies that the Research Council director has up to fifteen workdays to provide written comments back to sponsors, the attorney general, and secretary of state to help them fix any problems with their proposals.