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Recognizing the Mitchell Friends of NRA as the largest Friends of NRA chapter in the state and celebrating the chapter's significant support of gun safety classes, hunter education courses, and youth shooting sports.

This is a ceremonial resolution that recognizes the Mitchell Friends of NRA chapter as South Dakota's largest chapter and honors its work supporting gun safety classes, hunter education courses, and youth shooting sports programs. The resolution does not change any state laws or policies—it simply celebrates the organization's contributions to the community.

require the Department of Social Services and the Department of Education to apply for and administer the summer electronic benefit transfer for children program and to make an appropriation therefor.

HB 1184 requires South Dakota's Department of Social Services and Department of Education to apply for and run a federal summer food assistance program that provides electronic benefit cards to eligible children during school breaks. The bill appropriates state funding to support administration of this program, which helps low-income families purchase food for their children when school meals aren't available during summer months.

appropriate money for the ordinary expenses of the legislative, judicial, and executive departments of the state, the current expenses of state institutions, interest on the public debt, and for common schools.

HB1259 appropriates state funding for the routine costs of running South Dakota's legislature, courts, executive branch agencies, state institutions, and public schools, as well as payments on the state's debt. This is the state's general operating budget bill that provides the money needed to keep basic government functions running during the fiscal year. The bill doesn't change existing law—it simply allocates funds to cover these established expenses.

reimburse school districts for costs incurred in providing reduced price meals to students.

This bill allows school districts to provide reduced-price meals to students whose family income falls below 209% of the federal poverty line, even if they don't qualify for federal reduced-price meal programs. The state will reimburse school districts for the cost of providing these meals to eligible students. The bill also clarifies that students who qualify for free meals through federal programs cannot be charged, and students eligible for reduced-price meals can only be charged amounts allowed under federal rules.

require that a notification of medical cannabis certification be provided to a patient's primary or referring practitioner.

South Dakota's medical cannabis program now requires doctors to be notified when their patients receive a cannabis certification, ensuring their primary or referring physician stays informed about this treatment. The bill makes updates to the cannabis certification process and removes some outdated provisions from state law related to an earlier cannabis program framework. This change helps coordinate patient care between cannabis providers and a patient's regular medical team.