FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to  allow for the additional public distribution of sex offender information.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
     Section  1.  That § 22-22-34 be amended to read as follows:
     22-22-34.   The Division of Criminal Investigation may make the file available to any regional or national registry of sex offenders. The division shall accept files from any regional or national registry of sex offenders and shall make such files available when if requested pursuant to § §  22-22-30 to 22-22-39, inclusive. The division shall compile a statewide registration list for public inspection or public distribution under chapter 1-27, including electronic or internet distribution. However, the public distribution of sex offender information by the internet shall be limited to persons registered for committing the following offenses:

             (1)    Rape in the first or second degree as set forth in §  22-22-1;

             (2)    Criminal pedophilia as set forth in §  22-22-30.1; or

             (3)    Felony sexual contact as set forth in §  22-22-7.
     Section  2.  That chapter 22-22 be amended by adding thereto a NEW SECTION to read as

follows:

     The public distribution of sex offender information by the internet pursuant to section 1 of this Act shall include a recent photograph of each sex offender for whom information is made available. Further, no sex offender whose sentence has been finally discharged for more than fifteen years may be placed on the internet.