---
type: "Bill"
title: "allow a student to wear certain military decorations at a school graduation ceremony and to declare an emergency."
description: "allow a student to wear certain military decorations at a school graduation ceremony and to declare an emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1068"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1068 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Military Affairs", "Students"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aylward", "Bathke", "Crabtree", "Deibert", "Emery", "Fitzgerald", "Halverson", "Howard", "Hulse", "Jensen (Kevin)", "Jensen (Phil)", "Jordan", "Kull", "Muckey", "Mulally", "Nelson", "Overweg", "Pourier", "Reder", "Reed", "Reisch", "Roe", "Rohl", "Uhre-Balk", "Van Diepen", "Venhuizen", "Voita", "Walburg", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-17"
last_action: "2025-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/295d06a8-4f91-406c-b011-1d03e7a9b7ca"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25706"
source_hash: "4fcdf90fbedd38a87550b8be81577fa67e6b9cdc8df9a19c0ad2fb882f6ad35e"
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 HB 1068 (2025) — allow a student to wear certain military decorations at a school graduation ceremony and to declare an emergency.

## 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/25706/275567)
2. **1068A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/282549.pdf)
3. **Senate Education Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25706/282574)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25706/283253)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **65–2** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Concurred in amendments — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aylward — primary (person)
- Bathke — primary (person)
- Crabtree — primary (person)
- Deibert — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Fitzgerald — primary (person)
- Halverson — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Hulse — primary (person)
- Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
- Jordan — primary (person)
- Kull — primary (person)
- Muckey — primary (person)
- Mulally — primary (person)
- Nelson — primary (person)
- Overweg — primary (person)
- Pourier — primary (person)
- Reder — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Reisch — primary (person)
- Roe — primary (person)
- Rohl — primary (person)
- Uhre-Balk — primary (person)
- Van Diepen — primary (person)
- Venhuizen — primary (person)
- Voita — primary (person)
- Walburg — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-17** First read in House and referred to H.J. 38 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-03** Military and Veterans Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-05** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 65, NAYS 2 H.J. 205 `passage`
- **2025-02-06** First Reading Senate S.J. 196
- **2025-02-10** Referred to S.J. 219 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-20** Education Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 1068A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-20** Education Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0
- **2025-02-24** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 362
- **2025-02-26** House of Representatives Concurred in amendments , Passed, YEAS 70, NAYS 0 H.J. 409
- **2025-02-27** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 429 `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Signed by the President S.J. 425 `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-05 H.J. 458 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-13** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-13 H.J. 542 `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/295d06a8-4f91-406c-b011-1d03e7a9b7ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).