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prohibit a ban of combustion engines.

South Dakota cities and counties are prohibited from banning or restricting the use of vehicles with gas engines within their jurisdictions. This prevents local governments from adopting rules, ordinances, or other policies that would outlaw internal combustion engines, even if they wanted to encourage electric vehicles or reduce emissions.

repeal the Petroleum Release Compensation Board.

South Dakota is eliminating the Petroleum Release Compensation Board, a state agency that handled claims related to petroleum spills and contamination. The bill removes the board's governing statutes and related provisions, ending this compensation program entirely.

eliminate the cap on assessment amounts for road improvements and to allow townships to plan and pay for the paving and maintenance of non-section line roads.

HB 1109 removes the dollar cap that currently limits how much townships can assess property owners for road improvement projects, allowing them to spend more on paving and maintenance as needed. The bill also gives townships the authority to plan and pay for improvements to non-section line roads (smaller roads that don't follow the standard grid pattern), expanding the types of roads they can maintain beyond what they can do now.

prohibit the exercise of eminent domain for the construction of pipelines carrying carbon oxide.

South Dakota would prohibit companies from using eminent domain (the government power to seize private land for public use) to build pipelines designed to transport carbon dioxide for underground storage or sequestration. This new law prevents pipeline companies from forcing landowners to sell or allow access to their property for carbon capture projects, even if the state normally permits eminent domain for other types of infrastructure.