An Act to require the Department of Social Services and the Department of Education to apply for and administer the summer electronic benefit transfer for children program and to make an appropriation therefor.

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

Section 1. The Department of Social Services and the Department of Education shall submit a notice of intent to the United States secretary of agriculture to apply for and participate in the summer electronic benefit transfer for children program, administered by the United States Department of Agriculture, for the summers of 2025 through 2029.

Section 2. The Department of Social Services and the Department of Education shall develop a management and administration plan for participation in the summer electronic benefit transfer for children program for the summer of 2025 and submit the plan to the United States secretary of agriculture no later than January 1, 2025.

Section 3. The Department of Social Services and the Department of Education shall develop a management and administration plan for the summer electronic benefit transfer for children program for each summer of participation and submit the plan to the United States secretary of agriculture by the deadline established by the secretary.

Section 4. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund the sum of $150,000, and $150,000 in federal fund expenditure authority, to the Department of Social Services, for purposes of administering the summer electronic benefit transfer for children program during the summers of 2025 through 2029.

Section 5. There is hereby appropriated $28,933,440 in federal fund expenditure authority to the Department of Social Services, for purposes of distributing the benefits for the summer electronic benefit transfer for children program during the summers of 2025 through 2029.

Section 6. The secretary of the Department of Social Services shall approve vouchers and the state auditor shall draw warrants to pay expenditures authorized by this Act.

Section 7. Any amounts appropriated in this Act not lawfully expended or obligated shall revert in accordance with the procedures prescribed in chapter 4-8.