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26.649.11 101st Legislative Session 1097
2026 South Dakota Legislature
House Bill 1097
Introduced by: Representative Mulder
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An Act to make an appropriation for providing a grant to a nonprofit that delivers 1
diversion programming. 2
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA: 3
Section 1. There is appropriated $2,000,000 from the general fund, to the Department of 4
Corrections, for the provision of a grant to a nonprofit corporation that delivers juvenile 5
diversion programming in Sioux Falls, in partnership with the Sioux Falls Police Department 6
and the Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office. 7
Section 2. To be awarded the grant, the nonprofit corporation must commit to coordinating 8
and hosting a week -long summer camp open to sixth graders identified by school resource 9
officers working in Sioux Falls for the purpose of building relationships with law enforcement 10
officers and being diverted from criminal activity. The camp must be held once each calendar 11
year, for ten years, beginning in 2026. The camp must include participation by members of 12
the Sioux Falls Police Department and the Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office. The nonprofit 13
corporation must also commit to coordinating and hosting three follow -up events within the 14
same calendar year as the summer camp for camp participants, their families, and law 15
enforcement officers. 16
Section 3. Until all moneys appropriated by this Act are expended, the nonprofit corporation 17
shall, on or before December first of each year, report to the special committee created by 18
§ 4-8A-2 on outcome measures for the diversion programming described in section 2 of this 19
Act. The special committee may propose outcome measures on which the nonprofit 20
corporation must report. 21
Section 4. The Department of Corrections shall award one-tenth of the moneys appropriated 22
by this Act to the nonprofit organization each calendar year beginning in 2026. 23
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Section 5. The secretary of the Department of Corrections shall approve vouchers and the 1
state auditor shall draw warrants to pay expenditures authorized in this Act. 2
Section 6. Any amounts appropriated in this Act not lawfully expended or obligated by June 3
30, 2036, shall revert in accordance with the procedures prescribed in chapter 4-8. 4
Section 7. This Act is effective beginning June 30, 2026. 5