---
type: "Bill"
title: "provide for the transfer of motor vehicles and boats upon death."
description: "provide for the transfer of motor vehicles and boats upon death."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1129"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1129 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boating", "Fiduciaries and Trusts", "Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bathke", "Crabtree", "Deibert", "Emery", "Kull", "Larson", "Moore", "Mortenson", "Roby", "Smith", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/080c4b5e-7961-4525-8429-b70c7dd57bac"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25493"
source_hash: "960fcdc58a560fb3e18985e053458c7b6fab3b0c926425157ec9fb2afc997488"
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 1129 (2025) — provide for the transfer of motor vehicles and boats upon death.

## 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/25493/278412)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25493/283276)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bathke — primary (person)
- Crabtree — primary (person)
- Deibert — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Kull — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Moore — primary (person)
- Mortenson — primary (person)
- Roby — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** First read in House and referred to H.J. 144 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-04** Transportation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 H.J. 9 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-04** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, H.J. 9
- **2025-02-05** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 65, NAYS 2 H.J. 203 `passage`
- **2025-02-06** First Reading Senate S.J. 196
- **2025-02-10** Referred to S.J. 219 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-25** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-25** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-02-26** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 395 `passage`
- **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/080c4b5e-7961-4525-8429-b70c7dd57bac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).