FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to  provide for tourism regions in the state, to provide for the distribution of tourism promotion funds to those regions, and to provide an additional appropriation for tourism promotion.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
     Section  1.  That chapter 1-42 be amended by adding thereto a NEW SECTION to read as follows:

     For the purposes of distributing some of the tourism promotion fund established by §  1-42- 31, the state is divided into the following five tourism regions:

             (1)    The glacial lakes and prairies region which includes the counties of Beadle, Brookings, Codington, Deuel, Hamlin, Hand, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Miner, Moody, and Sanborn;

             (2)    The southeast region which includes the counties of Bon Homme, Clay, Davison, Hanson, Hutchinson, Lincoln, McCook, Minnehaha, Turner, Union, and Yankton;

             (3)    The northern route to the Black Hills region, which promotes a new tourism route

extending from eastern metro markets to the Black Hills across the northern tier of South Dakota and includes the counties of Brown, Campbell, Clark, Corson, Day, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk, Grant, Harding, Marshall, McPherson, Perkins, Potter, Roberts, Spink, and Walworth;

             (4)    The great lakes region which includes the counties of Aurora, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix, Douglas, Gregory, Hughes, Hyde, Lyman, Stanley, Sully, and Tripp; and

             (5)    The Black Hills, Badlands, and lakes region which includes the counties of Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Jackson, Jones, Lawrence, Meade, Mellette, Pennington, Shannon, Todd, and Ziebach.
     Section  2.  That chapter 1-42 be amended by adding thereto a NEW SECTION to read as follows:

     Any monies granted from the tourism promotion fund to tourism associations in the state shall be equally proportioned among the five tourism regions as provided in section 1 of this Act.
     Section  3.  There is hereby appropriated from the general fund the sum of fifty-five thousand dollars ($ 55,000 ), or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the tourism promotion fund to increase the amount of money otherwise available to be granted to tourism associations pursuant to section 2 of this Act.