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prevent a county, township, or municipality from authorizing a guaranteed income program.

SB 115 prohibits counties, townships, and municipalities in South Dakota from creating or operating guaranteed income programs—meaning local governments cannot establish programs that provide regular cash payments to residents. The bill amends state law to explicitly ban this type of local government spending initiative.

provide a rebuttable presumption in favor of joint physical custody of a minor child.

SB214 changes South Dakota custody law to presume that parents should share physical custody of their children equally unless one parent can prove otherwise. Instead of judges starting with no preference about custody arrangements, courts will now begin with the assumption that joint physical custody is in the child's best interest, and a parent seeking a different arrangement must present evidence to rebut that presumption.