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Prohibit the Board of Regents and institutions under its control from requiring students to reside in on-campus housing or purchase meal plans.

South Dakota's public universities can no longer require students to live in on-campus housing or buy meal plans after their first year of attendance. Currently, the Board of Regents and its institutions can mandate these requirements for all students; this bill limits that power to first-year students only. This change allows upperclassmen more freedom to choose where they live and how they eat while attending a state university.

Remove the prohibition against a landowner having an easement on the landowner's property.

South Dakota currently prohibits a property owner from holding an easement on their own land, but this bill removes that restriction. The bill repeals the old rule that automatically eliminates easements when the same person owns both the property and the easement rights, and instead allows property owners to maintain easements on their own property. This change gives landowners more flexibility in managing their property rights and obligations.

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.

Change the approval requirement for the construction or expansion of a municipal camping or tourist accommodation facility.

This bill makes it easier for South Dakota cities to build or expand public campgrounds and tourist facilities by changing how many private campground owners must approve the project. Instead of requiring approval from all private campground owners within 15 miles, cities now only need written approval from owners representing at least 75% of existing private campgrounds in that area, and if a campground has multiple owners, just one owner can give approval on behalf of all of them.

Allow the governing body of a municipality to change the use of municipally owned parkland by ordinance.

Municipal governments in South Dakota can now change how city-owned parkland is used by passing an ordinance, as long as the new use serves a public purpose. Before making this change, cities must publish notice of the proposed ordinance in their official newspaper for at least two weeks, with the final notice appearing at least 14 days before the city council's first reading of the ordinance.