---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise a provision related to sexual contact with a child under eighteen."
description: "revise a provision related to sexual contact with a child under eighteen."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 115"
citation: "South Dakota SB 115 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes", "Sex Offenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Baxter", "Duhamel", "Emery", "Grove", "Hohn", "Hulse", "Hunt", "Massie", "Perry", "Peterson (Sue)", "Pischke", "Pourier", "Wheeler"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/942e39fd-4dcf-44d2-b877-5532d4fd392f"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26039"
source_hash: "ee1cc4002fe0a5477d56bcf2528a67be7f6f83b04f1f14a247f503ae6a45a422"
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 115 (2025) — revise a provision related to sexual contact with a child under eighteen.

## 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/26039/278203)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26039/284185)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Baxter — primary (person)
- Duhamel — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Grove — primary (person)
- Hohn — primary (person)
- Hulse — primary (person)
- Hunt — primary (person)
- Massie — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Peterson (Sue) — primary (person)
- Pischke — primary (person)
- Pourier — primary (person)
- Wheeler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 126 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2025-02-06** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-06** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-02-07** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 210 `passage`
- **2025-02-10** First read in House and referred to H.J. 239 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-03-05** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0 H.J. 11 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, H.J. 11
- **2025-03-06** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 69, NAYS 0 H.J. 478 `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by the President S.J. 502 `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 524 `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-12 S.J. 517 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-31** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-31 S.J. 538 `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/942e39fd-4dcf-44d2-b877-5532d4fd392f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).