---
type: "Bill"
title: "update Uniform Unclaimed Property Act to include provisions related to virtual currency and notice requirements."
description: "update Uniform Unclaimed Property Act to include provisions related to virtual currency and notice requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1196"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1196 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Property", "Unclaimed Property", "Virtual Currency"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emery", "Muckey", "Uhre-Balk", "Venhuizen", "Vilhauer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ce58719-ae2f-4f77-bd49-eeb5b854658d"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26050"
source_hash: "dc989559cebe3bd44841b032bed29f31e1644fe700a2fa8b1c54ce32cbb92b28"
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 1196 (2025) — update Uniform Unclaimed Property Act to include provisions related to virtual currency and notice requirements.

## 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/26050/279287)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26050/283707)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **32–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Emery — primary (person)
- Muckey — primary (person)
- Uhre-Balk — primary (person)
- Venhuizen — primary (person)
- Vilhauer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** First Reading House H.J. 154
- **2025-02-03** Referred to H.J. 171 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2025-02-18** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-18** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-02-19** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 69, NAYS 1 H.J. 324 `passage`
- **2025-02-20** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 321 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-25** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 411
- **2025-03-03** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 2 S.J. 424 `passage`
- **2025-03-04** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 454 `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Signed by the President S.J. 456 `passage`
- **2025-03-06** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-06 H.J. 476 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-13** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-13 H.J. 543 `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/4ce58719-ae2f-4f77-bd49-eeb5b854658d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).