South Dakota law currently defines "community safety zones" as 500-foot areas around certain facilities to restrict where sex offenders can live, including day care centers and family day cares. This bill adds licensed and registered child care programs to that list of protected facilities, expanding the locations where sex offenders are prohibited from establishing residences. The change strengthens protections for children in organized child care settings by treating these programs the same as existing day care facilities under state sex offender residency restrictions.
This bill does not directly amend codified state law.
The amendment restructured the definition of "community safety zone" by converting it from general language into a numbered list that explicitly includes licensed day care centers, licensed group family day care homes, and registered family day care facilities as protected sites—substantially BROADENING the bill's scope to explicitly cover all types of licensed and registered child care programs rather than relying on implicit coverage. This change also converted the bill from its introduced form to its enrolled (final passed) form with standard legislative formatting.
Signed by the Governor S.J. 549
Delivered to the Governor S.J. 520
Signed by the Speaker H.J. 553
Signed by the President S.J. 505
House of Representatives Do Pass Passed, YEAS 65, NAYS 2. H.J. 523
Judiciary Certified uncontested, placed on consent
Judiciary Do Pass Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0.
Judiciary Scheduled for hearing
House of Representatives Referred to House Judiciary H.J. 262
First Reading House H.J. 238
Senate Do Pass Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 1. S.J. 184
Judiciary Do Pass Passed, YEAS 4, NAYS 3. S.J. 11
Judiciary Scheduled for hearing
Senate Referred to Senate Judiciary S.J. 92
First Reading Senate S.J. 82
Prime sponsor · Rep.
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Prime sponsor · Sen.
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Judiciary — Do Pass
Do Pass
Judiciary — Do Pass