2024 South Dakota Legislature

Senate Bill 209

ENROLLED

An Act

ENTITLED An Act to make an appropriation for grants to assisted living centers and nursing facilities for costs related to telemedicine.

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

Section 1. There is hereby appropriated $5,000,000 in federal fund expenditure authority, for the expenditure of state fiscal recovery fund American Rescue Plan Act moneys, to the Department of Health, for purposes of providing grants to assisted living centers and nursing facilities, licensed in accordance with chapter 34-12, to purchase and install technology and infrastructure for telemedicine.

Section 2. The secretary of the Department of Health shall approve vouchers and the state auditor shall draw warrants to pay expenditures authorized by this Act.

Section 3. Any amounts appropriated in this Act not lawfully expended or obligated shall revert in accordance with the procedures prescribed in chapter 4-8.

Section 4. This Act is effective June 30, 2024.

An Act to make an appropriation for grants to assisted living centers and nursing facilities for costs related to telemedicine.

I certify that the attached Act originated in the:

Senate as Bill No. 209

Secretary of the Senate

President of the Senate

Attest:

Secretary of the Senate

Speaker of the House

Attest:

Chief Clerk

Senate Bill No. 209

File No. ____

Chapter No. ______

Received at this Executive Office

this _____ day of _____________,

2024 at ____________M.

By

for the Governor

The attached Act is hereby

approved this ________ day of

______________, A.D., 2024

Governor

STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA,

ss.

Office of the Secretary of State

Filed ____________, 2024

at _________ o'clock __M.

Secretary of State

By

Asst. Secretary of State