---
type: "Bill"
title: "increase the penalty for a subsequent conviction for trespass to hunt, fish, or trap."
description: "increase the penalty for a subsequent conviction for trespass to hunt, fish, or trap."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 63"
citation: "South Dakota SB 63 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fishing", "Game", "Fish", "and Parks", "Hunting", "Licenses", "Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brunner", "Cammack", "Chaffee", "Cronin", "DiSanto", "Ewing", "Finck", "Frye-Mueller", "Gosch", "Gross", "Hammock", "Heinert", "Jensen (Kevin)", "Jensen (Phil)", "Klumb", "Lake", "Lesmeister", "Livermont", "Maher", "Marty", "Peterson (Kent)", "Qualm", "Randolph", "Rasmussen", "Reimer", "Rusch", "Schoenbeck", "Soholt", "Solano", "Wiese", "Wiik"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-22"
last_action: "2019-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/924dbaf5-89d4-49c4-b6dc-0b68ca62d26f"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=63&Session=2019"
source_hash: "be466d37a2fba64b5d8d5ea9103ab9eddfcb1ef7968a8ad3725520f20f73e306"
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 63 (2019) — increase the penalty for a subsequent conviction for trespass to hunt, fish, or trap.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment 63ba** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Amendment.aspx?Amend=amd63ba.htm)
2. **Printed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB63P.htm&Session=2019&Version=Printed&Bill=63)
3. **Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB63SAG.htm&Session=2019&Version=Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources&Bill=63)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB63ENR.htm&Session=2019&Version=Enrolled&Bill=63)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **65–2** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended - 2019HB 1024, SB 54, SB 63, SB 154 — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2019 — **12–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brunner — primary (person)
- Cammack — primary (person)
- Chaffee — primary (person)
- Cronin — primary (person)
- DiSanto — primary (person)
- Ewing — primary (person)
- Finck — primary (person)
- Frye-Mueller — primary (person)
- Gosch — primary (person)
- Gross — primary (person)
- Hammock — primary (person)
- Heinert — primary (person)
- Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
- Klumb — primary (person)
- Lake — primary (person)
- Lesmeister — primary (person)
- Livermont — primary (person)
- Maher — primary (person)
- Marty — primary (person)
- Peterson (Kent) — primary (person)
- Qualm — primary (person)
- Randolph — primary (person)
- Rasmussen — primary (person)
- Reimer — primary (person)
- Rusch — primary (person)
- Schoenbeck — primary (person)
- Soholt — primary (person)
- Solano — primary (person)
- Wiese — primary (person)
- Wiik — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-22** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources S.J. 139 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-01-31** Agriculture and Natural Resources Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 63ba `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-01-31** Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0. S.J. 243 `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-31** Placed on consent, Passed
- **2019-02-06** Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 0. S.J. 281 `passage`
- **2019-02-07** First read in House and referred to House Agriculture and Natural Resources H.J. 329 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-02-14** Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 1. H.J. 403 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-19** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 443
- **2019-02-20** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 453
- **2019-02-21** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 473
- **2019-02-22** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 486
- **2019-02-25** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 543
- **2019-02-26** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 557
- **2019-02-27** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 65, NAYS 2. H.J. 571 `passage`
- **2019-02-28** Signed by the President S.J. 556
- **2019-03-04** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 622
- **2019-03-05** Delivered to the Governor on March 05, 2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-11** Signed by the Governor on March 11, 2019 S.J. 678 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/924dbaf5-89d4-49c4-b6dc-0b68ca62d26f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).