PIERRE, S.D.(Press Release) – On Thursday, Governor Kristi Noem signed the following four bills into law:

• HB 1185 amends provisions regarding entry on private property for examination and survey of a project requiring a siting permit;
• HB 1186 defines the requirements for granting a carbon pipeline easement;
• SB 201 provides new statutory requirements for regulating linear transmission facilities, to allow counties to impose a surcharge on certain pipeline companies, and to establish a landowner bill of rights; and,
• SB 177 permits the appointment of a circuit court judge or Supreme Court justice as a member of the Public Utilities Commission in place of a disqualified or incapacitated commissioner.

Governor Noem has signed 159 bills into law this legislative session.