The Governor may delegate to each responsible officer of any other agency, department, or institution the authority to grant consent for official travel outside this state. The Governor may establish general guidelines for travel outside the state. For each outside-the-state expenditure, there must be a record signed with either an original handwritten signature or an electronic signature attached using a security procedure capable of verifying the act of the person signing the record by the appropriate responsible officer. State agencies are permitted to follow federal regulations for payment of travel and other allowances to state employees, dependents of state employees, or to foreign nationals, if the travel and other allowances are funded entirely by federal or private grants in support of international programs.

Source: SDC 1939, § 48.0604 (4) as enacted by SL 1968, ch 194 ; SL 1979, ch 24 ; SL 2023, ch 3 , § 19; SL 2026, ch 3 , § 8.