---
type: "Bill"
title: "modify practice criteria for physician assistants."
description: "modify practice criteria for physician assistants."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1071"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1071 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Procedure", "Fees", "Health Care", "Licensure", "Professions and Occupations", "Promulgation of Rules"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Auch", "Bahmuller", "Bathke", "Baxter", "Beal", "Crabtree", "Emery", "Fitzgerald", "Goodwin", "Greenfield", "Grove", "Halverson", "Healy", "Hulse", "Hunt", "Jensen (Phil)", "Jordan", "Kassin", "Kull", "Ladner", "Larson", "Manhart", "Moore", "Muckey", "Mulder", "Novstrup", "Perry", "Peterson (Drew)", "Randolph", "Rice", "Sauder", "Schoenfish", "Shorma", "Voight", "Wittman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/630021fe-72cd-4026-a0a4-c5585a45fc4d"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25490"
source_hash: "588b8c388e5d08a34d31a2b6d4dccfa39fd96329191a6bee40a70bc812283dbe"
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 1071 (2025) — modify practice criteria for physician assistants.

## 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/25490/275801)
2. **1071A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/282711.pdf)
3. **Senate Health and Human Services Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25490/282867)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25490/283805)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **54–13** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Concurred in amendments — **69–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **32–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **9–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Auch — primary (person)
- Bahmuller — primary (person)
- Bathke — primary (person)
- Baxter — primary (person)
- Beal — primary (person)
- Crabtree — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Fitzgerald — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Greenfield — primary (person)
- Grove — primary (person)
- Halverson — primary (person)
- Healy — primary (person)
- Hulse — primary (person)
- Hunt — primary (person)
- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
- Jordan — primary (person)
- Kassin — primary (person)
- Kull — primary (person)
- Ladner — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Manhart — primary (person)
- Moore — primary (person)
- Muckey — primary (person)
- Mulder — primary (person)
- Novstrup — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Peterson (Drew) — primary (person)
- Randolph — primary (person)
- Rice — primary (person)
- Sauder — primary (person)
- Schoenfish — primary (person)
- Shorma — primary (person)
- Voight — primary (person)
- Wittman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** First read in House and referred to H.J. 43 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-04** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 3 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-05** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 54, NAYS 13 H.J. 205 `passage`
- **2025-02-06** First Reading Senate S.J. 196
- **2025-02-10** Referred to S.J. 219 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-24** Health and Human Services Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 1071A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-24** Health and Human Services Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0
- **2025-02-24** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-02-26** Remove from Consent Calendar S.J. 395
- **2025-02-27** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 3 S.J. 409
- **2025-03-04** House of Representatives Concurred in amendments , Passed, YEAS 69, NAYS 1 H.J. 449
- **2025-03-06** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 488 `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by the President S.J. 503 `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-12 H.J. 528 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-31** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-31 H.J. 554 `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/630021fe-72cd-4026-a0a4-c5585a45fc4d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).