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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "modify the maximum sparsity benefit a sparse school district is eligible to receive."
+description: "modify the maximum sparsity benefit a sparse school district is eligible to receive."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
+legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 70"
+citation: "South Dakota SB 70 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education", "State Aid to Education"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Auch", "Emery", "Foster", "Grove", "Hunt", "Ismay", "Jensen (Phil)", "Larson", "Marty", "May", "Muckey", "Perry", "Pischke", "Rice"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2025-01-15"
+last_action: "2025-03-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b70c00b-1611-4098-926e-b242d48f6eb1"
+source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25660"
+source_hash: "dda510879d52fccb702aaf0299a8eab2d893ef7ce8498396669a6e0f488b62c7"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-sd"]
+---
+
+# South Dakota SB 70 (2025) — modify the maximum sparsity benefit a sparse school district is eligible to receive.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25660/275040)
+2. **70B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/281519.pdf)
+3. **70C** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/282560.pdf)
+4. **Senate Appropriations Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25660/282600)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25660/284337)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Pass Amended — **5–3** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **6–1** (pass) · upper
+- Referred to — **15–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass Amended — **69–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass Amended — **27–8** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Auch — primary (person)
+- Emery — primary (person)
+- Foster — primary (person)
+- Grove — primary (person)
+- Hunt — primary (person)
+- Ismay — primary (person)
+- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
+- Larson — primary (person)
+- Marty — primary (person)
+- May — primary (person)
+- Muckey — primary (person)
+- Perry — primary (person)
+- Pischke — primary (person)
+- Rice — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-15** First Reading Senate S.J. 31
+- **2025-01-17** Referred to S.J. 58 `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-28** Scheduled for hearing
+- **2025-01-28** Education Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 1 S.J. 3 `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-29** Referred to , Passed, S.J. 126 `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-10** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
+- **2025-02-20** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
+- **2025-02-20** Committee on Appropriations Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 10 Amendment 70B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2025-02-20** Committee on Appropriations Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 11 Amendment 70C `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2025-02-20** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 3 S.J. 11
+- **2025-02-24** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 27, NAYS 8 S.J. 356
+- **2025-02-25** First read in House and referred to H.J. 384 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-05** Scheduled for hearing
+- **2025-03-05** Referred to , Passed, YEAS 15, NAYS 0 `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-06** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
+- **2025-03-06** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-10** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 69, NAYS 0 H.J. 504
+- **2025-03-11** Signed by the President S.J. 511 `passage`
+- **2025-03-11** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 524 `passage`
+- **2025-03-12** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-12 S.J. 517 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-31** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-31 S.J. 538 `executive-signature, executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0b70c00b-1611-4098-926e-b242d48f6eb1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).
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