An Act to authorize the Department of Corrections to purchase certain real property, construct a community work center for offenders committed to the Department of Corrections, to make an appropriation therefor, transfer funds from the budget reserve fund, and to declare an emergency.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

Section 1. The Department of Corrections may purchase, on behalf of the State of South Dakota, a site comprising about twenty acres of real property that is described as:

Lot K North Valley Subdivision (formerly remainder of Lot A of North Valley Park Subdivision) located in Section 32, T2N, R8E, B.H.M., Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota.

Section 2. The Department of Corrections may contract for the planning, site preparation, designing, construction, furnishing, and equipping of a community work center for offenders committed to the Department of Corrections, together with furnishings and equipment, including heating, air conditioning, plumbing, water, sewer, electric facilities, architectural and engineering services, and other services and improvements as may be required.

Section 3. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund the sum of $28,012,008 to the Department of Corrections for the purposes authorized in sections 1 and 2 of this Act.

Section 4. The Bureau of Administration, pursuant to chapter 5-14, shall supervise the design, renovation, and construction of facilities approved by this Act.

Section 5. The commissioner of the Bureau of Administration and the secretary of the Department of Corrections shall approve vouchers and the state auditor shall draw warrants to pay expenditures authorized by this Act.

Section 6. Any amounts appropriated in this Act not lawfully expended or obligated shall revert in accordance with the procedures prescribed in chapter 4-8.

Section 7. The state treasurer shall transfer the sum of $28,012,008 from the budget reserve fund to the general fund.

Section 8. Whereas, this Act is necessary for the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.