Pipeline would join teacher bonuses, smoking bans, abortion as referred South Dakota laws

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A group hoping to put a newly adopted “Landowner Bill of Rights” law to a statewide vote of South Dakotans would be just the third referred measure to make the ballot in the last decade.

The campaign committee South Dakota Property Rights and Local Control Alliance (SDPRLCA) has been given the all clear by the Secretary of State’s Office to begin circulating petitions to put Senate Bill 201 on the November ballot starting Monday — when state lawmakers officially close the 99th Legislative Session.

The measure in the group’s crosshairs, signed earlier this month by Gov. Kristi Noem, creates new statutory requirements for regulating carbon dioxide pipelines and allows counties to impose a tax on those projects.