---
type: "Bill"
title: "permit a court to order family therapy or reunification therapy in a custody or visitation dispute."
description: "permit a court to order family therapy or reunification therapy in a custody or visitation dispute."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 111"
citation: "South Dakota SB 111 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Child Custody", "Domestic Relations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emery", "Healy", "Heermann", "Larson", "Muckey", "Perry", "Reed", "Shorma", "Walburg", "Wittman"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-28"
last_action: "2025-03-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ea5e23ea-9002-455f-a921-88f202a51be9"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25857"
source_hash: "38ac109048daf32a5ba5f2854c3b18d2ffbfa91dda1bb5db6689a452510f3491"
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 111 (2025) — permit a court to order family therapy or reunification therapy in a custody or visitation dispute.

## 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/25857/277886)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25857/283111)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Emery — primary (person)
- Healy — primary (person)
- Heermann — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Muckey — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Shorma — primary (person)
- Walburg — primary (person)
- Wittman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-28** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 112 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-11** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 259
- **2025-02-13** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 268 `passage`
- **2025-02-18** First Reading House H.J. 306
- **2025-02-19** Referred to H.J. 324 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-24** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-24** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-02-25** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 70, NAYS 0 H.J. 385 `passage`
- **2025-02-26** Signed by the President S.J. 397 `passage`
- **2025-02-27** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 429 `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-03 S.J. 415 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-06** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-06 S.J. 459 `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/ea5e23ea-9002-455f-a921-88f202a51be9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).