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Void covenants that prohibit or restrict the possession or use of firearms and ammunition.

South Dakota property owners can no longer be bound by deed restrictions or neighborhood covenants that ban firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or shooting on their land. Any existing covenants with such restrictions—even those made before this law takes effect—become unenforceable and void. The new law protects the lawful possession, storage, transportation, and discharge of firearms from being restricted through property covenants.

Address the imposition of firearm restrictions on certain employees, officers, volunteers, and other individuals.

This bill prevents counties, townships, and cities from restricting their employees, officers, and volunteers from carrying concealed firearms in government buildings, facilities, vehicles, and on government property. The restriction applies to any method of imposing such limits, including policies, written guidance, or verbal directives. The bill essentially overrides local government decisions to prohibit guns in their own workplaces.

Expand the authorized carrying, possession, and storage of a concealed pistol.

This bill expands who can carry a concealed pistol on school property by allowing permit holders to do so without needing written permission from the school principal, as long as they don't bring the gun into school buildings. Previously, only law enforcement and trained school sentinels could carry weapons on school grounds; now any adult with a concealed carry permit can carry one outside of buildings.

Prohibit the use of a firearms code for transactions involving firearms, accessories, components, and ammunition and to provide a civil penalty therefor.

This bill prohibits South Dakota financial institutions from using special firearms merchant codes to identify or track gun and ammunition sales—essentially banning them from labeling transactions to flag firearms dealers or purchases. Violators face civil penalties. The law prevents banks, credit unions, and payment processors from flagging or monitoring these transactions, even for their own internal purposes.

Limit the imposition of restrictions on the carrying of a concealed pistol and other items of self-defense while on the campus of a public institution of higher education.

SB100 prohibits South Dakota's public colleges and technical schools from restricting students, staff, and visitors from carrying concealed pistols, stun guns, mace, pepper spray, and other chemical irritants on campus or in campus buildings. The bill prevents these institutions from creating policies that limit the lawful possession, storage, or transportation of these self-defense items within their boundaries.

Authorize a change in bullet diameter for use in taking certain animals.

South Dakota currently allows hunters using night-vision equipment to take certain predators and varmints only with shotguns or rifles using bullets smaller than .225 inches in diameter. This bill increases the allowable bullet diameter to .312 inches, permitting the use of larger-caliber firearms for nighttime hunting of coyotes, raccoons, foxes, and similar animals on both public and private land.

Establish the crime of aggravated criminal entry of a motor vehicle with the intent to steal a firearm or firearm silencer, to make offenders ineligible for presumptive probation, and to provide a penalty therefor.

This bill creates a new felony crime for stealing firearms from motor vehicles, making it a Class 5 felony to break into a car and steal a gun. The bill also prevents people convicted of this new crime from receiving presumptive probation—meaning judges can't automatically give them probation and must instead consider prison time or other penalties.