revise restrictions on residence within a community safety zone and to declare an emergency.

Housing exceptions expand for registered sex offenders

South Dakota allows people required to register as sex offenders to keep qualifying homes near domestic abuse or sexual assault shelters. They must have established and lived in the home as of July 1, 2024. They also qualify if the shelter was built or established after they established their residence. For zones containing schools, public parks, public playgrounds, or public pools, the comparable date is July 1, 2006. The exception also applies if those sites were built or established after the person established residence. Other exceptions cover incarceration in a jail, prison, or other correctional placement, and parole or probation assignments to halfway houses or supervised living centers. People experiencing homelessness qualify when an appropriate community official initiates their admission to a community homeless shelter. Exceptions also cover placement in qualifying health care facilities or services from state-accredited or certified community service providers. Health facilities must be state-licensed or Medicare- or Medicaid-certified under federal law as amended through December 31, 2001. Exceptions also cover people whose offense occurred before age 18 who were not tried and convicted as adults, and people with a qualifying circuit court exemption. Outside these exceptions, the residence ban remains. Violations remain Class 6 felonies, with subsequent violations classified as Class 5 felonies. The law took effect immediately upon passage and approval.