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create the building opportunity through out-of-school time program and the building opportunity through out-of-school time program fund, authorize a new fee, make an appropriation therefor, and transfer moneys to the building opportunity through out-of-school time program fund.

South Dakota is creating a new "Building Opportunity Through Out-of-School Time Program" that provides grants to schools and nonprofits running after-school, before-school, or summer programs focused on academics, career readiness, and preventing risky behaviors like substance abuse and truancy. The bill establishes a dedicated fund to pay for the program through a new fee and state appropriations. This creates a new state initiative to support youth programming outside regular school hours.

add licensed and registered child care programs to the definition of community safety zone.

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.