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allow licensed hunting preserve facilities to sell alcoholic beverages on designated days outside of the shooting preserve season.

Licensed hunting preserve facilities may now sell alcoholic beverages on designated days when they are not operating their shooting preserve season, allowing them to generate additional revenue during the off-season. The bill repeals several existing restrictions on alcohol sales at these facilities and modifies regulations governing hunting preserves and alcohol licensing. This creates a new business opportunity for hunting preserve owners to host events and serve drinks outside their regular hunting operations.

provide new statutory requirements for regulating linear transmission facilities, to allow counties to impose a surcharge on certain pipeline companies, and to establish a landowner bill of rights.

SB201 establishes new rules for pipeline companies operating in South Dakota, allowing counties to charge them a surcharge and giving landowners additional legal protections when pipelines cross their property. The bill amends existing pipeline regulations and creates a new landowner bill of rights that specifies what companies must do when using private land for transmission facilities.

Condemning rape as a tactic of war.

# HCR 6009 Summary This is a legislative resolution expressing South Dakota's official condemnation of rape used as a weapon of war. The resolution does not change state law but instead makes a statement of the legislature's position on this international humanitarian issue.

increase the dollar limit for playing video lottery.

South Dakota video lottery machines will allow players to bet up to four dollars per game instead of the current two dollar limit. The maximum free games or credits that can be awarded per bet will also increase from one thousand dollars to two thousand dollars. These changes make it possible for players to wager and potentially win larger amounts when playing video lottery machines.