SB 16 South Dakota Senate · 2025 Regular Session

set aside certain contractor's excise tax collections relating to the Ellsworth Air Force Base, to create a fund for the collections, and to provide an appropriation therefor.

This bill directs the state to set aside contractor's excise tax collections from Ellsworth Air Force Base into a dedicated fund. The legislation creates a specific financial account to hold these tax revenues separately from the general state budget. It also provides an appropriation to establish and maintain this fund for future use. The measure directly affects the state's financial management of taxes collected from contractors operating at the military base.

Issues: ✓ Budget & Taxes

Bill status in committee 2 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

Senate Failed

Mar 2025

Governor

Introduced Jan 14, 2025 Last action Mar 3, 2025

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Introduced → Joint Appropriations Engrossed · 4 edits · Feb 25, 2025

MODERATE

This bill creates a new fund to collect and distribute contractor's excise taxes specifically related to Ellsworth Air Force Base. The legislation establishes a dedicated South Dakota Ellsworth Development Authority support fund, mandates annual reporting on grants, and directs all relevant tax collections to this new fund for base expansion and mission support purposes.

Scope change

The bill expands the scope by creating a new dedicated fund and administrative authority specifically for Ellsworth Air Force Base tax collections, which previously did not have a designated fund structure.

FISCAL

Created a new South Dakota Ellsworth Development Authority support fund in the state treasury to hold contractor's excise tax collections related to Ellsworth Air Force Base.

Mandates that all excise taxes collected under chapter 10-46A from projects on Ellsworth Air Force Base must be deposited into the new fund.

Continuously appropriates up to one hundred dollars from the fund for mitigating impacts of base mission expansion and supporting mission and troops at Ellsworth Air Force Base.

REQUIREMENT

Requires the authority to administer the fund and award grants to achieve the fund's purposes, with annual reporting to a special committee detailing grant recipients, purposes, and how grants support the base.

Floor votes · Senate Mar 3, 2025

How they voted

14–21

Failed

Total votes 35

Mar 3, 2025

D Democratic3

2 Yea 1 Nay

66% Yea

R Republican32

12 Yea 20 Nay

62% Nay

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

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Committee

Amendments

Mar 3, 2025

Upper · Passed

Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 14, NAYS 21 S.J. 420

upper

Mar 3, 2025

Introduced

Senate Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 419 Amendment 16G

upper

Mar 3, 2025

Vote failed

Senate Vote: fail (14-21)

senate

Feb 25, 2025

Upper · Passed

Committee on Appropriations Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 4

upper

Feb 25, 2025

Introduced

Committee on Appropriations Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 16D

upper

Feb 5, 2025

Committee

Referred to , Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 0

upper

Jan 27, 2025

Committee

Referred to S.J. 100

upper

23 primary · 0 co-sponsors