The amendment converted the bill from its introduced form into its official enrolled version, adding standard legislative certification pages and signature blocks for the Governor and state officials while maintaining the $5,000,000 appropriation to the Department of Public Safety for a Highway Patrol airplane and mission equipment. This is a procedural formalization with no substantive change to the bill's purpose.
26.541.15 26.541.16 101st Legislative Session 69 2026 South Dakota Legislature Senate Bill 69 Introduced by: The Chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations at the request of the Department of Public Safety Underscores indicate new language. Overstrikes indicate deleted language. ENROLLED AN ACT ENTITLED An Act to make an appropriation for the purchase of a new Division of Highway 1 Patrol airplane and mission equipment and to declare an emergency. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA: 3 Section 1. There is appropriated $5,000,000 from the general fund, to the Department of 4 Public Safety, for the purchase of a new Division of Highway Patrol airplane, for the purchase 5 of mission equipment to be used in the airplane, and for the installation of the mission 6 equipment. 7 Section 2. The secretary of the Department of Public Safety shall approve vouchers and the 8 state auditor shall draw warrants to pay expenditures authorized in this Act. 9 Section 3. Any amounts appropriated in this Act not lawfully expended or obligated shall 10 revert in accordance with the procedures prescribed in chapter 4-8. 11 Section 4. Whereas, this Act is necessary for the support of the state government and its 12 existing public institutions, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this Act shall be in 13 full force and effect from and after its passage and approval. 14 26.541.16 2 69 SB69 ENROLLED An Act to make an appropriation for the purchase of a new Division of Highway Patrol airplane and mission equipment and to declare an emergency. I certify that the attached Act originated in the: Senate as Bill No. 69 Secretary of the Senate President of the Senate Attest: Secretary of the Senate Speaker of the House Attest: Chief Clerk of the House Senate Bill No. 69 File No. ____ Chapter No. ______ Received at this Executive Office this _____ day of _____________, 2026 at ____________M. By for the Governor The attached Act is hereby approved this ________ day of ______________, A.D., 2026 Governor STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA, ss. Office of the Secretary of State Filed ____________, 2026 at _________ o'clock __M. Secretary of State By Asst. Secretary of State