Legislative Oversight Mechanisms

Ongoing oversight by legislative committee(s) or commission(s); interim charges; legislative program reviews or performance audits; legislative requests for information.

Legislative Program Evaluation Office

Department of Legislative Audit. This department conducts a financial audit of SDDOT; there is no legislative performance audit.

Sunset Review

Every state agency and the statutes that govern it are reviewed by an interim legislative committee every 10 years (S.D. Codified Laws Ann. ch. 1-26E). This is not a true sunset, however, because the statutes do not automatically repeal if there is no action of the Legislature. SDDOT was last reviewed in 2009.