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South Dakota Puts All State Forms Online

A new one-stop Web site gives the public, businesses access to all state forms.

PIERRE, S.D. -- Gov. Bill Janklow unveiled a one-stop Web site last week for more than 1,100 state forms.

The South Dakota Service Direct page went live on the state's Web site last Thursday, Janklow said, allowing citizens and businesses to search for and access nearly all state forms through one Web page.

Each form on the Service Direct Web site has links to information about the form, as well as a downloadable copy for printing and mailing. In many cases, officials said, the site offers a fill-in-the-blanks style online form for direct submission to the state electronically, allowing for many state forms to be processed entirely online for immediate service.

"The goal is to reduce the hassle for people," Janklow said. "This is a no-brainer."

Visitors to the site can search for the right form via a life-events timeline for locating services used by a specific age group. People can also use the standalone event buttons for specific actions, such as finding a job. For businesses, the site organizes services along starting, growing or maintaining a business.

If the visitor knows the specific form sought, the fastest path is via "Access all State Forms/Publications" that lists all state forms by service category and by agency. Visitors can also search by keyword.

The Service Direct portal covers forms for agencies under control of the governor, the Office of the Secretary of State and the state treasurer. Otto Doll, South Dakota's CIO, said Bureau of Information and Telecommunications will be working with the legislative and judicial branches of government and the other constitutional offices to include their forms and publications later this year.

The site's design and functionality were created at Janklow's direction by BIT staff.

"Most state and business portals cost several hundreds of thousands of dollars, some even in the millions," Doll said. "The BIT programmed the entire portal for under $200,000."

Office of Gov. Bill Janklow