Bills affecting your community in South Dakota — 2026 session

Prohibit an insurer from declining or limiting life, disability, or long-term care insurance policies based solely on an individual's status as a living organ donor.

Provide a property tax credit for the payment of nonpublic school tuition.

Modify the provisions for a refund of taxes to disabled veterans and surviving spouses under certain property tax relief programs.

Provide for a refund of property taxes in previous years for qualifying veterans and surviving spouses.

Extend the motor vehicle and motorcycle licensing fee available to a veteran with a disability to the spouse of a veteran with a disability.

Provide property tax relief to certain senior owners of owner-occupied single-family dwellings.

Revise property tax levies for school districts and to revise the state aid to general and special education formulas.

Make an appropriation for tax refunds for elderly persons and persons with a disability, and to declare an emergency.

Modify tax refunds for elderly persons and persons with a disability.

Clarify statutes governing the administration of disability benefits by the South Dakota Retirement System.

Permit a court to impose as a condition of probation, or parole in certain circumstances, treatment at a nonprofit entity awarded an alternative care program grant.

Establish the homeowner tax reduction fund.

Allow a business owner who is a veteran to display military specialty plates on a noncommercial vehicle registered to the veteran's business and to limit personal liability to the business owner and veteran.

Amend certain provisions pertaining to special education funding.

Amend the manner of calculating state aid to general and special education funding.

Require that the Department of Health accept the medical records of a veteran applying for a medical cannabis registry identification card.

Provide a tax credit for owner-occupied property, to make an appropriation therefor, and to transfer moneys to the general fund.

Require the licensure of non-medical home care agencies, and to provide a penalty therefor.

Create requirements for age verification and parental consent for application stores and to provide a penalty therefor.

Modify requirements to create a tax increment financing district.