---
type: "Bill"
title: "address the imposition of firearm restrictions on certain employees, officers, volunteers, and other individuals."
description: "address the imposition of firearm restrictions on certain employees, officers, volunteers, and other individuals."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1218"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1218 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Firearms", "Municipal Government", "Townships"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aylward", "Baxter", "Garcia", "Howard", "Ismay", "Jordan", "Nelson", "Novstrup", "Overweg", "Perry", "Peterson (Sue)", "Pischke", "Randolph", "Soye", "Voita"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 29
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-02-04"
last_action: "2025-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2fc87e08-f7b9-44be-b963-9ad930cb7864"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26037"
source_hash: "e94fb198ca901fbde8c6bb86d1c3a9888661a34322408449e8b14c2dd8ebbdf5"
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 1218 (2025) — address the imposition of firearm restrictions on certain employees, officers, volunteers, and other individuals.

## 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/26037/280249)
2. **1218A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/281655.pdf)
3. **1218F** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/282365.pdf)
4. **1218M** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/283968.pdf)
5. **1218N** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/283973.pdf)
6. **1218P** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/284280.pdf)
7. **House Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26037/282523)
8. **House Local Government Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26037/282307)
9. **Senate Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26037/284388)
10. **Senate Local Government Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26037/283984)
11. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26037/284516)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **30–4** (pass) · upper
- Failed to concur, appoint Conference Committee — **35–34** (pass) · lower
- Conference Committee Report adopted — **32–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Deferred to the 41st legislative day — **10–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **44–26** (pass) · lower
- Placed on calendar pursuant to JR 6F-6 — **41–29** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **6–7** (fail) · lower
- Conference Committee Report adopted — **56–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aylward — primary (person)
- Baxter — primary (person)
- Garcia — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Ismay — primary (person)
- Jordan — primary (person)
- Nelson — primary (person)
- Novstrup — primary (person)
- Overweg — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Peterson (Sue) — primary (person)
- Pischke — primary (person)
- Randolph — primary (person)
- Soye — primary (person)
- Voita — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-04** First read in House and referred to H.J. 184 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-13** Local Government Motion to amend , Passed, H.J. 1 Amendment 1218A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Amend the amendment , Passed, H.J. 2
- **2025-02-13** Local Government Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 7 H.J. 2
- **2025-02-13** Local Government Deferred to the 41st legislative day , Passed, YEAS 10, NAYS 3 H.J. 3
- **2025-02-18** Recalled from committee (Rule 7-7) , Passed, H.J. 304
- **2025-02-18** Local Government Report out of committee without recommendation as amended , Passed,
- **2025-02-19** Placed on calendar pursuant to JR 6F-6 , Passed, YEAS 41, NAYS 29 H.J. 323
- **2025-02-19** House of Representatives Motion to amend , Passed, H.J. 332 Amendment 1218F `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-19** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 44, NAYS 26 H.J. 334
- **2025-02-20** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 321 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-03-05** Local Government Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 1218M `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-05** Local Government Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 1218N `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-05** Local Government Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 2
- **2025-03-10** Senate Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 489 Amendment 1218P `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-10** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 30, NAYS 4 S.J. 489
- **2025-03-11** House of Representatives Failed to concur, appoint Conference Committee , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 34 H.J. 519
- **2025-03-11** Senate Conference Committee appointments S.J. 513
- **2025-03-11** House of Representatives Conference Committee appointments H.J. 522
- **2025-03-12** Concurred in amendments , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 0
- **2025-03-12** Conference Committee Report adopted , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 0
- **2025-03-12** House of Representatives Conference Committee Report adopted , Passed, YEAS 56, NAYS 14 H.J. 538
- **2025-03-12** Senate Conference Committee Report adopted , Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 3 S.J. 524
- **2025-03-13** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 548 `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Signed by the President S.J. 535 `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-13 H.J. 549 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-31** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-31 H.J. 553 `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/2fc87e08-f7b9-44be-b963-9ad930cb7864`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).