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+type: "Bill"
+title: "authorize a change in bullet diameter for use in taking certain animals."
+description: "authorize a change in bullet diameter for use in taking certain animals."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
+legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 78"
+citation: "South Dakota SB 78 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Firearms", "Game", "Fish", "Parks and Forestry", "Hunting"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Aylward", "Baxter", "Crabtree", "Deibert", "Gosch", "Grove", "Jensen (Kevin)", "Jensen (Phil)", "Jordan", "Kull", "Mehlhaff", "Mulally", "Nelson", "Overweg", "Perry", "Pischke", "Voight", "Voita"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-17"
+last_action: "2025-03-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbeb6762-ccbb-42ff-8530-33ba06a0620d"
+source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25917"
+source_hash: "ccc1e57b03633f42faf19ec2c2669004560d7489039c13a05cd9ceeca7b0296d"
+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 78 (2025) — authorize a change in bullet diameter for use in taking certain animals.
+
+## 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/25917/275576)
+2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25917/283654)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Aylward — primary (person)
+- Baxter — primary (person)
+- Crabtree — primary (person)
+- Deibert — primary (person)
+- Gosch — primary (person)
+- Grove — primary (person)
+- Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
+- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
+- Jordan — primary (person)
+- Kull — primary (person)
+- Mehlhaff — primary (person)
+- Mulally — primary (person)
+- Nelson — primary (person)
+- Overweg — primary (person)
+- Perry — primary (person)
+- Pischke — primary (person)
+- Voight — primary (person)
+- Voita — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-17** First Reading Senate S.J. 58
+- **2025-01-21** Referred to S.J. 63 `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-28** Scheduled for hearing
+- **2025-01-28** Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-29** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 129 `passage`
+- **2025-01-30** First Reading House H.J. 159
+- **2025-02-03** Referred to H.J. 172 `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-27** Scheduled for hearing
+- **2025-02-27** Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-27** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
+- **2025-03-03** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 1 H.J. 436 `passage`
+- **2025-03-04** Signed by the President S.J. 443 `passage`
+- **2025-03-05** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 470 `passage`
+- **2025-03-06** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-06 S.J. 465 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-13** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-13 S.J. 529 `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/cbeb6762-ccbb-42ff-8530-33ba06a0620d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).
+