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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.
Revise requirements pertaining to the minimum age for marriage.
Modify the distributions of revenues collected from severance taxation on new permits.
Amend provisions related to changing rooms, sleeping quarters, and restrooms.
Amend the requirements for filing certain campaign finance disclosure statements.
Clarify authority for the Cosmetology Commission to credit work experience for educational hours for certain out-of-state licensure applicants, and to require the commission to promulgate rules therefor.
Revise the season in which a nonprofit organization may host a special pheasant hunt for disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients.
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.
Transfer moneys and make an appropriation for the replacement of the Richmond Lake dam and spillway and to declare an emergency.
Create the capitol restoration fund and to transfer moneys thereto.
Add licensed and registered child care programs to the definition of community safety zone.
Revise a provision related to the transportation of an inmate upon discharge from a correctional facility.
Make an appropriation to the South Dakota Board of Technical Education to construct an advanced manufacturing laboratory space and classrooms on the campus of Southeast Technical College and to declare an emergency.
Revise qualifications for immunity from prosecution following a drug-related overdose.
Adopt the respiratory care interstate compact.
Expand the information required to be sent to the prescription drug monitoring program for each registry identification card holder.
Require the licensure of non-medical home care agencies, and to provide a penalty therefor.
Establish procedures for anti-SLAPP actions to protect the exercise of a person's constitutional rights, including freedom of speech.
Consider a cultivated-protein food product to be adulterated food.
Adopt the athletic trainer licensure compact.
Create a task force to study the provision of emergency medical services as an essential service and the funding thereof.
Modify the amount required to be set aside for extraordinary expenses incurred in providing special education programs.
Authorize the imposition of a county option gross receipts tax to reduce owner-occupied property taxes.
Require the sealing of court files upon dismissal or denial of a petition for a protection order.
Revise provisions relating to industrial hemp.
Modify the distribution of gaming revenues.
Allow the Public Utilities Commission to assess actual costs to data centers that are customers of public utilities.
Revise the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2026.
Transfer moneys to the general fund from the budget reserve fund and the general revenue replacement fund, and to declare an emergency.
Establish parameters for the reimbursement of school districts that provide free or reduced-price meals to students.
Revise provisions related to Division of Criminal Investigation cooperation with Indian tribes.
Revise a provision related to criminal invasions of privacy, prohibit the creation and distribution of digitally fabricated material of an identifiable individual, and provide penalties therefor.
Create the Developmental Disability Service Delivery Committee.
Permit the board of a school district to require that certain students receive instruction in alternative settings.
Protect residents from increased utility costs and utility shortages caused by data centers and clarify authority to regulate data centers.
Revise a provision regulating delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol, THC-O acetate, and hexahydrocannabinol for persons under the age of twenty-one and to provide a penalty therefor.
Modify provisions related to the South Dakota Veterans Council.
Safeguard the integrity, privacy, and security of genetic data and provide a civil penalty therefor.
Limit the types of residential improvements for which counties, municipalities, and townships may require a permit.
Revise a provision related to theft by a contractor, subcontractor, or supplier.
Make an appropriation for the purchase of a new Division of Highway Patrol airplane and mission equipment and to declare an emergency.
Make an appropriation for grants to support the purchase of personal protective equipment by volunteer fire departments and to declare an emergency.
Create a taskforce to study the creation of Indian medicaid managed care entities in the state.
Make appropriations for water and environmental purposes and to declare an emergency.
Modify provisions pertaining to the submission of a nominating petition.
Enhance the penalties for ingestion, possession with intent to deliver, and delivery of a controlled substance in a state correctional facility.
Revise property tax levies for school districts and to revise the state aid to general and special education formulas.
Authorize loans from the South Dakota housing infrastructure fund for airport infrastructure.
Make an appropriation for the expansion of broadband infrastructure and to declare an emergency.
Require the publication of the results of an election for precinct committeeman or committeewoman and to declare an emergency.