Committee hearings, interim meetings, floor sessions, and election dates · synced from the LRC schedule · all times Central
South Dakota Legislature · Pierre Review · All times Central
Thursday, February 12, 2026
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House Agriculture and Natural Resources
Committee Hearing
Eliminate the Agricultural Land Assessment Implementation and Oversight Advisory Task Force, and to provide that the Department of Revenue receive the submission of recommendations and provide a report on agricultural value
Require statewide livestock ownership inspection
Revise certain mining statutes
Require an alternate approval process for an operation that extracts materials by the use of explosives
Prohibit geoengineering in this state
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House Health and Human Services
Committee Hearing
Revise the medical purpose affirmative defense in cannabis prosecution
Ban kratom and kratom products and to provide a penalty therefor
Establish provisions related to the disclosure of COVID-19 and mRNA vaccination status and blood donations
Establish a data collection system pertaining to assisted reproductive technology and to provide a penalty therefor
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Committee Hearing
Authorize the recall of certain elected officials or individuals appointed to fill vacancies in certain offices
Update references in certain statutes to the 2024 standard building codes
Limit the types of residential improvements for which counties, municipalities, and townships may require a permit
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Committee Hearing
Create a new class of nonagricultural property for purposes of taxation, and to provide a penalty therefor
Modify the requirements for public notice of a hearing prior to a vote to impose an excess tax levy, and to modify requirements to refer an excess tax levy of a school district to a vote
Adjust the assessment methodology for owner-occupied single-family dwellings and nonagricultural property
Exempt any soil amendment used exclusively for agricultural purposes from sales tax
Reduce certain property taxes for owner-occupied property, and to increase the rates for certain gross receipts taxes and use taxes
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Committee Hearing
Modify requirements regarding the use of a mobile electronic device while operating a motor vehicle
Provide an additional means of determining the purchase price of a used motor vehicle acquired by gift or other transfer
Require that a snow bear be titled and licensed
Provide for the study of statewide transit needs and the economic impacts of public transit, and to make an appropriation therefor
Require that county treasurers calculate excise tax using the amount shown on a bill of sale for a used vehicle sold, leased, or transferred by a person other than a licensed motor vehicle dealer
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Joint Committee on Appropriations
Committee Hearing
Authorize the construction of a trades center on the campus of Lake Area Technical College, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency
Create the South Dakota school construction fund, provide for the transfer of moneys to the fund, and make an appropriation therefor
Make an appropriation for a statewide educator retention initiative
Make an appropriation to the South Dakota Board of Technical Education to construct an advanced manufacturing laboratory space and classrooms on the campus of Southeast Technical College and to declare an emergency
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Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources
Committee Hearing
Terminate bounty payments for the control of nest predation
Provide for an automatic refund of an assessment on crops, livestock, and milk
Create the water infrastructure development fund, to provide an appropriation, to provide for the awarding of grants and loans from the fund for certain rural water projects and to declare an emergency
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Committee Hearing
Authorize the shipment of distilled spirits directly to consumers, and to provide a penalty therefor
Revise public notice requirements for new sand, gravel, and construction aggregate mines
Revise registration fees for drones and establish a fund to support drone aviation
Authorize the creation of land banks
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Committee Hearing
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Committee Hearing
Regulate the use of chatbots by minors
Permit a court to commit a juvenile adjudicated delinquent for certain weapons offenses to the Department of Corrections
Require the award of certain disbursements to prevailing owners and taxpayers in appeals of property classifications or assessments
Authorize a comprehensive study of juvenile correctional and residential facilities, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency