This schedule enables legislators to have one working day each week at home in their districts to meet with constituents as well as to tend to other personal matters.

The administrative support for the legislature is provided by the South Dakota Legislative Research Council.

[2] Members of both houses of the state legislature are elected in November of every even-numbered year to serve a two-year term.

Legislative districts are redrawn every ten years, following the United States census.

In 2021, South Dakota enacted new state legislative and congressional districts after the legislature approved a compromise between two competing proposals.