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SB6 • 2026

reduce the duration of an individual's reemployment benefits.

reduce the duration of an individual's reemployment benefits.

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Sponsor
Rohl
Last action
2026-02-19
Official status
Tabled
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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reduce the duration of an individual's reemployment benefits.

reduce the duration of an individual's reemployment benefits.

What This Bill Does

  • reduce the duration of an individual's reemployment benefits.
  • Official keyword topics: Reemployment Assistance Official sponsor note: Senators <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4814/Detail">Rohl</a> (prime), <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4741/Detail">Crabtree</a>, <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4763/Detail">Howard</a>, <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4827/Detail">Vilhauer</a>, and <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4835/Detail">Zikmund</a> and Representatives <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4735/Detail">Bahmuller</a>, <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4737/Detail">Baxter</a>, <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4783/Detail">Manhart</a>, and <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4789/Detail">Moore</a>

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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6A

None

Filed

Plain English: 6A 101st Legislative Session 6 2026 South Dakota Legislature Senate Bill 6 Introduced by: Senator Rohl Underscores indicate new language.

  • 6A 101st Legislative Session 6 2026 South Dakota Legislature Senate Bill 6 Introduced by: Senator Rohl Underscores indicate new language.
  • Overstrikes indicate deleted language.
  • AMENDMENT 6A FOR THE INTRODUCED BILL An Act to reduce the duration of an individual's reemployment benefits.
  • 1 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA: 2 Section 1.
6B

None

Filed

Plain English: 6B 101st Legislative Session 6 2026 South Dakota Legislature Senate Bill 6 Introduced by: Senator Rohl This bill has been extensively amended (hoghoused) and may no longer be consistent with the original intention of the sponsor.

  • 6B 101st Legislative Session 6 2026 South Dakota Legislature Senate Bill 6 Introduced by: Senator Rohl This bill has been extensively amended (hoghoused) and may no longer be consistent with the original intention of the sponsor.
  • Underscores indicate new language.
  • Overstrikes indicate deleted language.
  • AMENDMENT 6B FOR THE INTRODUCED BILL An Act to reduce the duration of an individual's reemployment benefits ensure 1 consumer access to E -15 gasoline at qualified retail motor fuel sites and to 2 provide a penalty.

Bill History

  1. 2026-02-19 Senate Commerce and Energy

    Scheduled for hearing

  2. 2026-02-19 Senate Commerce and Energy

    Tabled

  3. 2026-02-17 Senate Commerce and Energy

    Recalled

  4. 2026-01-22 Senate Commerce and Energy

    Deferred to the 41st legislative day

  5. 2026-01-22 Senate Commerce and Energy

    Motion to amend

  6. 2026-01-22 Senate Commerce and Energy

    Scheduled for hearing

  7. 2026-01-13 Senate

    First read in Senate and referred to Senate Commerce and Energy

Official Summary Text

reduce the duration of an individual's reemployment benefits.
Official keyword topics:
Reemployment Assistance
Official sponsor note: Senators <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4814/Detail">Rohl</a> (prime), <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4741/Detail">Crabtree</a>, <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4763/Detail">Howard</a>, <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4827/Detail">Vilhauer</a>, and <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4835/Detail">Zikmund</a> and Representatives <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4735/Detail">Bahmuller</a>, <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4737/Detail">Baxter</a>, <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4783/Detail">Manhart</a>, and <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4789/Detail">Moore</a>

Current Bill Text

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26.58.11 101st Legislative Session 6

2026 South Dakota Legislature
Senate Bill 6

Introduced by: Senator Rohl

Underscores indicate new language.
Overstrikes indicate deleted language.
An Act to reduce the duration of an individual's reemployment benefits. 1
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA: 2
Section 1. That § 61-6-8 be AMENDED: 3
61-6-8. Unless the provisions of §§ 61-6-49 to 61-6-64, inclusive, apply, an 4
individual's maximum benefit amount is an amount equal to one -third of the individual's 5
total base period wages in covered employment not to exceed twenty-six twelve times the 6
individual's weekly benefit amount. If that amount is not a multiple of one dollar, it is 7
lowered to the next lower multiple of one dollar. 8
Trade readjustment payments may allow an individual to receive benefits in excess 9
of twenty-six twelve weeks if the individual is in training approved by the secretary under 10
the Trade Act of 1974, as amended by section 2501 of P.L. 97-35--August 13, 1981, and 11
then only as long as necessary to complete the training. 12
If the benefit year of an individual ends within an extended benefit period, the 13
number of weeks of extended benefits that the individual would, but for this section, be 14
entitled to in that extended benefit period is reduced by the number of weeks for which 15
the individual received any amounts as trade readjustment allowances within that benefit 16
year, multiplied by the individual's weekly benefit amount for extended benefits. 17