An Act to make an appropriation for providing a grant to a nonprofit that delivers programming to support offenders and correctional staff.

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

Section 1. There is appropriated $2,700,000 from the general fund, to the Department of Corrections, for the provision of a grant to a nonprofit corporation that delivers programming to support offenders and correctional staff.

Section 2. To be awarded the grant, the nonprofit corporation must currently offer trauma-informed programming that includes leadership development and personal and professional skills training at state correctional facilities; have delivered this programming at a state correctional facility within six months before the effective date of this Act; and plan to serve both offenders and correctional staff at the South Dakota State Penitentiary, Mike Durfee State Prison, and South Dakota Women's Prison as verified by the Department of Corrections.

Section 3. The secretary of the Department of Corrections shall approve vouchers and the state auditor shall draw warrants to pay expenditures authorized in this Act.

Section 4. Any amounts appropriated in this Act not lawfully expended or obligated by June 30, 2031, shall revert in accordance with the procedures prescribed in chapter 4-8.

Section 5. This Act is effective beginning June 29, 2026.