ENTITLED An Act to require the Unified Judicial System to assemble a task force to address barriers to services for emerging adults involved in the justice system in South Dakota.

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

Section 1. The Unified Judicial System shall assemble a task force consisting of at least eleven members to examine barriers to service for emerging adults involved in the justice system in South Dakota.

Section 2. For purposes of this Act, the term, emerging adults, means individuals who are eighteen to twenty-five years old.

Section 3. The task force must be comprised of representatives from the following agencies or interests: the Unified Judicial System, Department of Corrections, Department of Education, Department of Labor and Regulation, Department of Social Services, prosecutors, defense attorneys, law enforcement, and community-based providers.

Section 4. The task force examination must include the following:

(1) Recommending best practices for supporting emerging adults that are involved in the adult criminal justice system;

(2) Creating joint training opportunities for justice system professionals and partners related to emerging adults;

(3) Identifying opportunities to expand diversion programming for emerging adults;

(4) Exploring ways to overcome barriers to housing and employment for emerging adults;

(5) Exploring supervision practices utilized through probation and parole for emerging adult offenders;

(6) Recommending ways to develop culturally responsive, community-based mentoring programs for emerging adults, and

(7) Recommending alternative or additional funding structures for supportive services for emerging adults.

Section 5. The Unified Judicial System shall present the findings of the task force to the Governor and to the Legislature no later than November 15, 2023.

Section 6. All expenses incurred in carrying out the work of the task force shall be paid out of funds appropriated or otherwise provided to the Unified Judicial System.

An Act to require the Unified Judicial System to assemble a task force to address barriers to services for emerging adults involved in the justice system in South Dakota.

I certify that the attached Act originated in the: House as Bill No. 1063 Chief Clerk Speaker of the House Attest: Chief Clerk President of the Senate Attest: Secretary of the Senate House Bill No. 1063 File No. ____ Chapter No. ______

Received at this Executive Office this _____ day of _____________, 2023 at ____________M. By for the Governor The attached Act is hereby approved this ________ day of ______________, A.D., 2023 Governor STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA, ss. Office of the Secretary of State Filed ____________, 2023 at _________ o'clock __M. Secretary of State By Asst. Secretary of State