§18. Enacting clause -- Assent by majority -- Recording of votes.
The enacting clause of a law shall be: "Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota" and no law shall be passed unless by assent of a majority of all the members elected to each house of the Legislature. And the question upon the final passage shall be taken upon its last reading, and the yeas and nays shall be entered upon the journal.
§19. Signing of bills and resolutions.
The presiding officer of each house shall, in the presence of the house over which he presides, sign all bills and joint resolutions passed by the Legislature, after their titles have been publicly read immediately before signing, and the fact of signing shall be entered upon the journal.
§20. Origin of bills -- Amendment in other house.
Any bill may originate in either house of the Legislature, and a bill passed by one house may be amended in the other.
§21. One subject expressed in title.
No law shall embrace more than one subject, which shall be expressed in its title.
§22. Effective date of acts -- Emergency clause.
No act shall take effect until ninety days after the adjournment of the session at which it passed, unless in case of emergency, (to be expressed in the preamble or body of the act) the Legislature shall by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected of each house, otherwise direct.
§23. Private and special laws prohibited.
The Legislature is prohibited from enacting any private or special laws in the following cases:
- Granting divorces.
- Changing the names of persons or places, or constituting one person the heir at law of another.
- Locating or changing county seats.
- Regulating county and township affairs.
- Incorporating cities, towns and villages or changing or amending the charter of any town, city or village, or laying out, opening, vacating or altering town plats, streets, wards, alleys and public ground.
- Providing for sale or mortgage of real estate belonging to minors or others under disability.
- Authorizing persons to keep ferries across streams wholly within the state.
- Remitting fines, penalties or forfeitures.
- Granting to an individual, association or corporation any special or exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever.
- Providing for the management of common schools.
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