• PIERRE, S.D. - Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed the following legislative bills on Tuesday, March 12:
• SB1 - An Act to revise the provisions regarding plugging and performance bonds for oil and gas wells and to repeal the supplemental restoration bond requirement.
• SB44 - An Act to allow disqualification of commercial driver licenses for violations of federal, state, or local texting bans while driving a commercial vehicle to comply with federal regulations and requirements.
• SB60 - An Act to revise certain definitions regarding the appraisal certification program.
• SB61 - An Act to allow licensed insurance agents to act as consultants in certain circumstances.
• SB62 - An Act to revise certain requirements regarding when an insurer's certificate of authority may be revoked.
• SB71 - An Act to correct the name of a postsecondary institution authorized to provide educational programs in South Dakota, and to revise the requirements for an institution seeking such authorization.
• SB80 - An Act to reinstate certain provisions repealed in the Eighty-seventh Legislative Session regarding the accounting for federal impact aid.
• SB237 - An Act to appropriate funds for deposit into the need-based grant fund, to provide for annual funding of the need-based grant fund with a portion of the funds received from the education enhancement trust fund, and to declare an emergency.
• HB1048 - An Act to revise and repeal certain provisions related to the Department of Agriculture.
• HB1049 - An Act to transfer the value added agriculture subfund from the Governor's Office of Economic Development to the Department of Agriculture.
• HB1056 - An Act to revise various trust and trust company provisions.
• HB1058 - An Act to repeal and revise certain statutes related to the Animal Industry Board.
• HB1059 - An Act to repeal and revise certain obsolete and unnecessary statutes and rules relating to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
• HB1062 - An Act to repeal and reenact certain provisions regarding forestry and fire suppression.
• HB1083 - An Act to revise the crime of rustling to include sheep and goats.
• HB1093 - An Act to allow the use of dogs to hunt mountain lions and leashed dogs to track and retrieve wounded or presumed dead big game animals.
• HB1102 - An Act to revise provisions regarding the South Dakota Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act.