Chapter 196

(Senate Bill 41)

An Act to revise the appropriation for the construction of a National Guard Readiness Center in Sioux Falls, for the purchase and exchange of property between the state and the Sioux Falls Development Foundation, and to declare an emergency.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

Section 1. That section 2 of chapter 234 of the 2021 Session Laws be AMENDED:

Section 2. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund the sum of $500,000 $5,685,920, and the sum of $15,000,000 $16,291,974 in federal fund expenditure authority to the Department of the Military, for purposes of design and construction of a National Guard Readiness Center in Sioux Falls, and to authorize and support activities related to the following property exchange:

(1) An approximately 32.96-acre parcel located on East Benson Road and North Sycamore Avenue in Sioux Falls that is currently owned by the state, with the following description: Tract 3 less the western most five (5) acres of said Tract, and all of Tract 4, Knabach Addition to the City of Sioux Falls, located in the SE1/4 of Section 35, T102N-R49W of the 5th P.M., City of Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota; and

(2) An approximately 38.88-acre parcel located on the future North Bahnson Avenue Road in Sioux Falls that is currently owned by the Sioux Falls Development Foundation, with the following description: Tract 3 (excepting Lot H1), East Benson Addition to the City of Sioux Falls; a portion of an unplatted parcel of land described as the Northwest ¼ (Except H1 through H5, Lacey’s Tract 2, Lacey’s Addition, Lacey’s 2nd Addition and Runge’s Addition); and a portion of an unplatted parcel of land described as the West ½ of the Southwest 1/4 (excepting Lot H1, Lot H2 and Sioux Empire Development Park 8 Addition), all located in Section 35, Township 102 North, Range 49 West of the 5th P.M. City of Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota.

Section 2. Whereas, this Act is necessary for the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.

Signed March 18, 2022