Interim Rules Review Committee
Thursday, March 12, 2026
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This webcast is a service of SDPB. Good, useful, and full of wonder. SDPB. The Interim Rules Review Committee will now come to order. Madam Secretary, please call the roll.
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DeGroot, excused. Larson.
Here.
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Mehlhoff.
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Here.
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Muckey.
Here.
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Howard.
Here.
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Hansen.
Here.
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Mr.
- Justin Goetz, Code Counsel
Chair, you have a quorum.
Thank you, Madam Secretary. We have a quorum. The chair would entertain a motion to approve the minutes of our November 12th, 2025 meeting.
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So moved.
Moved by Mehlhaff, seconded by Muckey to approve the minutes. All those in favor will say aye.
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Aye.
Those opposed, nay. Minutes are approved. Okay, first up on our agenda is the assignment of agency rules. Um, would anybody like to change any of the assignments that we had? From last interim. I'm okay just leaving them as they are. Everybody good with that?
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Yes.
Okay, let's take a look at the— we'll leave them as they are.
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Good?
Okay. Let's take a look at the interim meeting schedule. That is kind of in the midway point of your packet. As you all know, we typically meet Every Tuesday. Any of these dates jump out as problematic to anybody?
- Speaker C
October 5th and 6th.
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Okay.
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May 11th.
Okay, I did not bring a pen.
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Thanks.
October 5th and 6th. May 11th doesn't work?
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Right. Okay.
April 13th. Okay, that's fine. Anything else?
- Speaker C
What was yours? April? April 13th.
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Okay.
- Speaker C
And June 2nd was yours, Senator? Yeah. Did you say just—
- Speaker D
no, I'm just— I'm still looking at it. No. Can we have a second?
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No.
Yep, sorry. Yeah, no rush.
- Speaker C
Oh, you said just a second. Yeah, you said June second. Exactly. I have that in common with Kolek.
Okay, so how about, how about I'm just gonna roll through all these Tuesdays? Or in other words, we could do all the Tuesdays except for the Tuesday in October. We would do Monday the 12th.
- Speaker C
Possibly April 7th. I have a dentist appointment at 11:45. We're usually out by then, aren't we?
On the first one, I mean, yeah, how many rules packets do we have for the first one?
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6.
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6.
- Speaker C
Ooh, maybe we better do that one.
Cutting it a little close. But—
- Speaker C
What's that? Do that one April 6th? I think so.
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April 20th too.
- Justin Goetz, Code Counsel
I mean, you can—
- Unknown
Oh, sure.
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April 20th.
That'd be fine with me. Does that work? Is that good? Does that work for everybody?
- Speaker C
I believe so. Yep.
Okay, so it would be Tuesday, April 20th.
- Justin Goetz, Code Counsel
Mr. Chair, is that the 21st you mean?
Oh, 21st. 21st. Okay, thank you.
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April 21st. Yeah.
Okay, so we would have Tuesday, April 21st, Tuesday, May 5th, Tuesday, June 9th, Tuesday, July 14th, Tuesday, August 18th, Tuesday, September 8th, and Monday, October 12th.
- Speaker C
Would you run through those again, please?
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Yep.
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I'm sorry.
So we got Tuesday, April 21st, Tuesday, May 5th, Tuesday, June 9th, Tuesday, July 14th, Tuesday, August 18th, Tuesday, September 8th, and Monday, October 12th. Good?
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Yep.
You good with that, Senator Mehlhoff?
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I believe so.
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Okay.
- Speaker C
I'm going to double-check.
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Okay.
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Okay.
All right, we'll roll with those days. Okay, next up, service of rules— electric versus hard copy or both. I would still prefer to do both. Same with Senator Howard. Same with Representative Muckey. Okay. Same with Senator Larson.
- Speaker C
I get by pretty good with the electronic.
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Okay.
- Justin Goetz, Code Counsel
So no changes for anyone here? And then we'll just leave DeGroot as he had it?
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Yeah.
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Yep.
- Speaker D
Actually, I can do just— I can do the e-copies only.
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Okay.
- Speaker D
I have so many rules packets still sitting around my house.
I know, it makes great scratch paper for the kids to color on. That's true, yeah. That's what you— the double-sided ones you make paper planes out of. Yeah. Okay, staff report. Mr. Goetz.
- Justin Goetz, Code Counsel
Mr. Chairman, thank you. Justin Goetz, Code Counsel. I won't belabor this more than to say that I sent out the report here. It's 2 pages earlier to the membership. And if you have any questions about it, let me know. We can speak whenever. The high points are SB 133, and it's now before the governor's office, before the governor's desk, and also the addition potentially of a new assistant code counsel. So thank you so much for your willingness to serve another interim.
Well, thank you. We appreciate that. Okay. Well, we are required to ask for public testimony. So is there any public testimony? She moves to adjourn. Okay. Yeah, okay.
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Yeah.
Okay. Anything further for the committee, Mr.
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Chair?
Representative Muckey, I move we adjourn. Motion made by Representative Muckey, seconded by Senator Howard, that we adjourn. All those in favor of adjournment will say aye. Those opposed, nay. We are adjourned.
Agenda
AGENDA
Interim Rules Review Committee
Representative Jon Hansen, Chair
Senator Taffy Howard, Vice Chair
Four hundred thirty-ninth meeting Room 413 – State Capitol
Thursday, March 12, 2026 Pierre, South Dakota
12:00 p.m. CT Call to Order
Roll Call - Determination of Quorum
Approval of Minutes - November 12, 2025, meeting
Assignment of Agency Rules
Interim Meeting Schedule
Service of Rules (Electronic vs. Hard Copy)
Staff Report
Public Testimony
1:00 p.m. CT Adjourn
PLEASE NOTE: The above times are approximate.
Register electronically to testify: https://sdlegislature.gov/testify/306527
Members:
Senators Taffy Howard,
Liz Larson,
and Jim Mehlhaff
and Representatives Roger DeGroot,
Jon Hansen,
and Erik Muckey
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Official Minutes
MINUTES
Interim Rules Review Committee
Representative Jon Hansen, Chair
Senator Taffy Howard, Vice Chair
Four hundred thirty-ninth meeting Room 413 – State Capitol
Thursday, March 12, 2026 Pierre, South Dakota
The four hundred thirty-ninth meeting of the Interim Rules Review Committee (IRRC) was called to order by Representative Jon Hansen, Chair, at 2:32 p.m. (CT) on March 12, 2026, in Room 413 at the State Capitol, Pierre, South Dakota.
A quorum was determined with the following members present: Representatives Jon Hansen, Chair, and Erik Muckey, and Senators Taffy Howard, Vice Chair, Liz Larson, and Jim Mehlhaff. Representative Roger DeGroot was excused. Staff members present were Justin Goetz, Code Counsel, and Kelly Thompson, Legislative Editor.
NOTE: For the purpose of continuity, the following minutes are not necessarily in chronological order. All referenced documents distributed at the meeting are hyperlinked to the document on the Legislative Research Council website. This meeting was live streamed. Each section contains a hyperlink to the time stamp pertaining to that item in the archived live stream available at sdlegislature.gov.
Approval of Minutes
Senator Mehlhaff moved, seconded by Representative Muckey, that the November 12, 2025, meeting minutes be approved. Motion prevailed on a unanimous voice vote of those members present (00:31.960)
Assignment of Agency Rules
A handout was provided indicating the current agency assignments for committee members. All members expressed their intention to retain their assignments from the 2025 Interim. (00:41.960)
Interim Meeting Schedule
Representative Hansen explained that the committee usually meets on Tuesdays. Meetings begin at 10:00 a.m. (CT) unless the length of the agenda necessitates an earlier start time, and are usually held in Room 414 of the State Capitol, with remote participation available via Microsoft Teams. Upon reviewing a list of potential meeting dates, members set the following meeting schedule for the 2026 Interim: April 21, May 5, June 9, July 14, August 18, September 8, and October 12. (01:05.280)
Service of Rules (Electronic vs. Hard Copy)
Committee members may receive rules documents from agencies electronically, in hard copy form, or by both means. For the 2026 Interim, all members requested to receive both electronic and hard copy service with the exception of Senators Larson and Mehlhaff who opted to receive electronic service only. LRC staff will update Form 12 and Form E-3 accordingly, notify agency rules contacts, and post the information on the LRC website. (06:03.700)
Staff Report
Mr. Justin Goetz, Code Counsel, advised committee members that at least fifty bills were introduced during the 2026 Legislative Session related to rulemaking authority, whether adding, revising existing, or repealing the authority. Of these, twenty have passed both chambers. The two interim committee bills adopted by the committee - Senate Bill 56 and Senate Bill 57 - have been signed by the Governor and shall become law on July 1, 2026.
Also signed by the Governor and substantially impacting the chapter 1-26 rulemaking process is Senate Bill 133. The bill creates a new filing for all rules - the regulatory impact analysis - and expands the actions the committee can take if a rule packet constitutes a major rule.
Mr. Goetz reported that, to date, six rule packets have been received for consideration during the 2026 Interim. (07:02.820)
Public Testimony: General Purposes
No public testimony was received.
Adjournment
Representative Muckey moved, seconded by Senator Howard, that the meeting be adjourned. Motion prevailed on a unanimous voice vote of those members in attendance. (08:05.680)
Chair Hansen adjourned the meeting at 2:40 p.m. (CT).