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encouraging the Executive Board of the Legislative Research Council to form an interim legislative committee to study the role and function of county boards of mental illness.

This resolution asks the Legislative Research Council to create a committee that will study how county boards of mental illness operate, including their authority over involuntary commitments and their role in reporting to federal background check systems. The committee will examine whether current laws governing voluntary and involuntary commitment processes are working effectively and how they could better connect with national criminal background checks. This is a study request only—it doesn't change any current laws but directs lawmakers to investigate potential improvements to the mental health commitment system.

make an appropriation for providing a grant to a nonprofit that delivers programming to support offenders and correctional staff.

South Dakota is setting aside $2.7 million to give as a grant to a nonprofit organization that provides trauma-informed training programs to inmates and prison staff at state correctional facilities. To receive the grant, the nonprofit must already be offering leadership development and skills training at South Dakota's three main prisons and must have delivered these programs there within the past six months. The money must be spent by June 30, 2031, or it will be returned to the state's general fund.