---
type: "Bill"
title: "shorten the time before records of a Governor or a lieutenant governor are opened to the public."
description: "shorten the time before records of a Governor or a lieutenant governor are opened to the public."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 10"
citation: "South Dakota SB 10 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Records and Files", "State Affairs and Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aylward", "Baxter", "Emery", "Foster", "Goodwin", "Jensen (Kevin)", "Larson", "Muckey", "Mulally", "Perry", "Pourier", "Reed", "Rohl", "Smith", "Uhre-Balk", "Voita"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 12
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-02-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f24a0a93-97a8-4647-9005-67162d0628f4"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25382"
source_hash: "345cf6c30bcec0c7edcd66c33b886a09edbffb59974fc1471aa34e1c75bb724c"
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 SB 10 (2025) — shorten the time before records of a Governor or a lieutenant governor are opened to the public.

## 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/25382/272396)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25382/279381)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **59–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aylward — primary (person)
- Baxter — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Foster — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Muckey — primary (person)
- Mulally — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Pourier — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Rohl — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Uhre-Balk — primary (person)
- Voita — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-14** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 12 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-22** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-23** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 81 `passage`
- **2025-01-24** First read in House and referred to H.J. 113 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-29** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 59, NAYS 7 H.J. 163 `passage`
- **2025-02-03** Signed by the President S.J. 157 `passage`
- **2025-02-04** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 188 `passage`
- **2025-02-05** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-02-05 S.J. 177 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-11** Signed by the Governor on 2025-02-11 S.J. 224 `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/f24a0a93-97a8-4647-9005-67162d0628f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).