---
type: "Bill"
title: "increase the number of off-sale licenses from two to three in municipalities and counties of one thousand or less."
description: "increase the number of off-sale licenses from two to three in municipalities and counties of one thousand or less."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1079"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1079 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverages"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aylward", "Emery", "Kull", "Larson", "Mehlhaff", "Moore", "Mortenson", "Muckey", "Pischke", "Roe", "Venhuizen", "Walburg", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ea0a0e5-448a-4094-97c9-cc4801891d15"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25911"
source_hash: "61b7005e36fc4909e2f12faf4634127fee2d35317a469a5c55bc4b4ee9b3ac47"
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 1079 (2025) — increase the number of off-sale licenses from two to three in municipalities and counties of one thousand or less.

## 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/25911/275949)
2. **1079A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/278091.pdf)
3. **1079B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/278774.pdf)
4. **House Commerce and Energy Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25911/278666)
5. **House Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25911/279962)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25911/283273)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **53–15** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **11–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aylward — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Kull — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Mehlhaff — primary (person)
- Moore — primary (person)
- Mortenson — primary (person)
- Muckey — primary (person)
- Pischke — primary (person)
- Roe — primary (person)
- Venhuizen — primary (person)
- Walburg — primary (person)
- Zikmund — 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`
- **2025-01-29** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-29** Commerce and Energy Motion to amend , Passed, H.J. 1 Amendment 1079A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-29** Commerce and Energy Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 1 H.J. 1
- **2025-02-03** House of Representatives Motion to amend , Passed, H.J. 173 Amendment 1079B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-03** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 53, NAYS 15 H.J. 173
- **2025-02-04** First Reading Senate S.J. 165
- **2025-02-10** Referred to S.J. 219 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-25** Commerce and Energy Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-25** Placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-02-26** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 395
- **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/6ea0a0e5-448a-4094-97c9-cc4801891d15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).