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South Dakota Legislature
South Dakota Legislature
The South Dakota Legislature consists of 70 current members in the Senate and House of Representatives. Track 9,823 South Dakota bills, view legislator voting records, and monitor committee activity.
Sessions (24)
2026 Regular Session
2025 Regular Session
2025 1st Special Session
2024 Regular Session
2023 Regular Session
2022 Regular Session
2021 1st Special Session
2021 2nd Special Session
2021 Regular Session
2020 Special Session
2020 Regular Session
2019 Regular Session
2018 Special Session
2018 Regular Session
2017 Special Session
2017 Regular Session
2016 Regular Session
2015 Regular Session
2014 Regular Session
2013 Regular Session
2012 Regular Session
2011 Special Session
2011 Regular Session
2010 Regular Session
Legislators (70)
Bills (50)
To honor and remember Orris "Orrie" Swayze for his dedicated service to his family and the state.
Transfer moneys and make an appropriation for the replacement of the Richmond Lake dam and spillway and to declare an emergency.
Modify provisions for a tax increment financing district.
Define man and woman throughout the state.
Revise a provision related to service of process for boards of county commissioners.
Increase penalties for the operation of drones over certain facilities and to provide for mitigation techniques and countermeasures.
Revise provisions related to serving a subpoena in a contested case.
Make an appropriation for roadway and related infrastructure improvements required because of construction activity at Ellsworth Air Force Base and to declare an emergency.
Amend the period of time before which ballots and other election materials may be destroyed following an election.
Make an appropriation for victim services provided by nonprofit organizations.
Reschedule the date for filing certain annual reports.
Prohibit the dispensing, distribution, sale, or advertisement of certain articles or things for purposes of an unlawful abortion and provide a criminal and civil penalty therefor.
Establish parameters for the reimbursement of school districts that provide free or reduced-price meals to students.
Temporarily prohibit the manufacture, sale, and distribution of any product containing cell-cultured protein, and to provide a penalty therefor.
Revise the compliance requirements for limitations on foreign ownership of agricultural land.
Revise requirements pertaining to the minimum age for marriage.
Authorize counties and municipalities to issue a license for a cigar bar.
Amend provisions pertaining to the processing of absentee ballots and to declare an emergency.
Provide additional legislative oversight of rulemaking.
Permit a court to impose as a condition of probation, or parole in certain circumstances, treatment at a nonprofit entity awarded an alternative care program grant.
Add coaches to the list of mandatory reporters of child abuse or neglect.
Protect financial institutions taking action to prevent the financial exploitation of consenting, senior, or vulnerable adults.
Create the capitol restoration fund and to transfer moneys thereto.
Revise property tax levies for school districts and to revise the state aid to general and special education formulas.
Revise provisions relating to industrial hemp.
Protect electric infrastructure in this state.
Restrict ownership of real property interests by certain prohibited entities and to provide for enforcement.
Transfer moneys to the general fund from the budget reserve fund and the general revenue replacement fund, and to declare an emergency.
Update certain citations to federal regulations regarding pipeline safety inspections.
Revise the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2026.
Regulate the sale of nicotine products, and to provide a penalty therefor.
Clarify the requirements for marking an optical scan ballot.
Ensure the validity of non-compete agreements in the context of jointly owned business entities.
Revise certain provisions related to child support.
Address search and seizure provisions applicable to digital currency.
Clarify the procedure for a potential condemnor to examine real property absent the property owner's permission.
Authorize certain utilities to establish wildfire mitigation plans and associated liability limitations for wildfire damages.
Protect residents from increased utility costs and utility shortages caused by data centers and clarify authority to regulate data centers.
Modify the amount required to be set aside for extraordinary expenses incurred in providing special education programs.
Adopt the respiratory care interstate compact.
Update provisions pertaining to open records.
Revise the process for requesting a veteran's certificate of discharge from a county register of deeds.
Adopt the athletic trainer licensure compact.
Create a taskforce to study the creation of Indian medicaid managed care entities in the state.
Modify restrictions on lands for certain public purposes.
Amend provisions pertaining to the School Finance Accountability Board, and the process by which a recommendation of the board is approved.
Prohibit a candidate or political committee from accepting contributions or loans made by a foreign national, to provide a penalty therefor, and to declare an emergency.
Prevent virtual currency kiosk fraud.
Allow the Public Utilities Commission to assess actual costs to data centers that are customers of public utilities.
Regulate the retail sale of nicotine products, and to provide a penalty therefor.