2-7-5. Prefiled bills--Numbering, printing, and disposition--Introduction.
The director of the Legislative Research Council shall, in accordance with rules adopted by the Legislature, receive the prefiled bills and resolutions, place them in proper form, and assign them numbers for introduction in the proper house. The director shall electronically deliver each bill and resolution to the secretary of the Senate or the chief clerk of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, on the day when the session convenes. However, the director may not deliver any prefiled bill or resolution until every sponsor of the bill or resolution has been duly sworn into office.
Upon prefiling, the bills and resolutions become the property of the Legislature and may not thereafter be withdrawn. Prefiled bills and resolutions shall be considered as introduced on the first legislative day.
Source: SL 1967, ch 273, §1; SL 1984, ch 16, §2; SL 1997, ch 19, §1; SL 2020, ch 11, § 1.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 2 - Legislature and Statutes
Chapter 07 - Legislative Printing, Records And Journals
Section 2-7-1 - Compilation, printing, and distribution of legislative manual.
Section 2-7-3 - Contents of legislative manual.
Section 2-7-4 - Prefiled bills--Persons authorized--Rules.
Section 2-7-5 - Prefiled bills--Numbering, printing, and disposition--Introduction.
Section 2-7-6.1 - Committee introduction of bills and resolutions.
Section 2-7-10 - Permanent journals as official record of proceedings.
Section 2-7-11 - Index and distribution of journals.
Section 2-7-12 - Certified copies of journals as prima facie evidence of proceedings.
Section 2-7-17 - Certification and filing of printed bills and resolutions--Judicial notice.
Section 2-7-18 - Engrossment of bills and amendments.
Section 2-7-19 - Enrollment of bill after passage by both houses.
Section 2-7-20.1 - Certificate of conformity by Legislature in form and style.
Section 2-7-20.4 - Bills becoming law without Governor's signature or objections.