ENTITLED, An Act to  replace certain geographic names that use offensive names, words, or phrases.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
     Section  1.  The Legislature finds that certain geographic place names are offensive and insulting to all South Dakota's people, history, and heritage. These place names should be replaced by names that reflect South Dakota's people, history, and heritage without resorting to harmful or offensive stereotypes, names, words, or phrases. Section 4 of this Act lists the currently known geographic names that are harmful or offensive. All state and local government agencies may make changes to maps and any other reference materials to reflect the changes provided in this Act. A copy of this Act shall be forwarded by the Legislative Research Council to the United States Board on Geographic Names for consideration as recommendations for changes on any federal maps and reference materials that reference these names and places.
     Section  2.  The geographic place names set forth in section 4 of this Act are considered harmful and offensive. The new place names provided in section 4 of this Act shall replace and shall be used by all state and local agencies in South Dakota in all future publications, maps, or other reference materials published after the effective date of this Act.
     Section  3.  If no replacement place name for a specific location or feature is provided in section 4 of this Act, a replacement name may be suggested by the county or other local government entity, or by any interested person and may be submitted to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Pierre for a period of ninety days following the effective date of this Act. The final decision on any replacement names, not previously approved by the Legislature pursuant to this Act, shall be made jointly by the Board of Water and Natural Resources, the Board of Minerals and Environment, and the Transportation Commission within sixty days after the expiration of the ninety-

day deadline. Any place names adopted in the manner described in this section shall be adopted and used and shall replace the offensive place names listed in section 4 of this Act pursuant to the provisions of this Act.
     Section  4.  Offensive place names in South Dakota by county are replaced as follows:

County	Current place name	Place name changed to
Codington	Squaw Lake	Serenity Lake
Custer	Little Squaw Creek	No recommendation
	Negro Canyon	"    "
	Negro Wool Ridge	"    "
Fall River	Squaw Flat	Hat Creek Flat
Gregory	Squaw Creek	No recommendation
	Squaw Creek Reservoir	"    "
Haakon	Squaw Creek	No recommendation
	Negro Creek	"    "
Harding	Squaw Creek	No recommendation
	East Squaw Creek	"    "
	Squaw Tree Spring	"    "
	West Squaw Creek	"    "
Jackson	Big Negro Draw	No recommendation
	Little Negro Creek	"    "
Jones	Squaw Creek	Pitan Creek
Lake	Negro Creed	Franklin Creek
Lawrence	Squaw Creek	Cleopatra Creek
	East Branch of Squaw Creek	East Branch Cleopatra Creek
	Negro Gulch	Last Chance Gulch
	Negro Hill	African Hill
Marshall	Squaw Hill	Six Mile Hill
	Squaw Lake	Six Mile Lake
Meade	Squaw Butte School	No recommendation
	Squaw Butte	"    "
	Squaw Creek	"    "
	Negro Creek School	"    "
Moody	Squaw Creek	Jack Moore Creek
Pennington	Squaw Creek	Cedar Breaks Creek
	Negro Creek	Medicine Mountain Creek
Shannon	Little Squaw Humper Creek	Little Red Shirt Creek
	Little Squaw Humper Table	Little Red Shirt Table
	Squaw Humper Creek	Two Bulls Creek
	Squaw Humper Dam	Two Bulls Dam
	Squaw Humper Table	Two Bulls Table
Stanley	Negro Edge Canyon	No recommendation
Ziebach	Squaw Teat Butte	Peaked Butte
	Squaw Teat Creek	East Rattlesnake Creek

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An Act to replace certain geographic names that use offensive names, words, or phrases.

========================= I certify that the attached Act originated in the HOUSE as Bill No. 1280

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Chief Clerk

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Speaker of the House

Attest:

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Chief Clerk

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President of the Senate

Attest:

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Secretary of the Senate

House Bill No. 1280
File No. ____
Chapter No. ______     =========================
Received at this Executive Office this _____ day of _____________ ,

20____ at ____________ M.

By _________________________
for the Governor

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The attached Act is hereby approved this ________ day of ______________ , A.D., 20___

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Governor

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STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA,

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Office of the Secretary of State

Filed ____________ , 20___
at _________ o'clock __ M.

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Secretary of State

By _________________________
Asst. Secretary of State