---
type: "Bill"
title: "limit the amount of money that may be loaned to a candidate or political committee."
description: "limit the amount of money that may be loaned to a candidate or political committee."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 12"
citation: "South Dakota SB 12 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Campaign Finance", "Elections", "Political Committees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Deibert", "Duhamel", "Emery", "Kull", "Larson", "Muckey", "Reed", "Reisch", "Rohl", "Vilhauer", "Wheeler"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-02-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/311f5811-36da-45a5-840c-451f6f6fc3c9"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25790"
source_hash: "082b96fd730e66611f0979ac55f2d26fa5bd01fa76c4312d038f5e1728783d9e"
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 12 (2025) — limit the amount of money that may be loaned to a candidate or political committee.

## 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/25790/272398)
2. **12A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/279543.pdf)
3. **12B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/279801.pdf)
4. **House Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25790/281009)
5. **House State Affairs Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25790/279718)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25790/281522)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **38–29** (pass) · lower
- Motion to amend — **34–33** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **6–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **12–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **21–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Deibert — primary (person)
- Duhamel — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Kull — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Muckey — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Reisch — primary (person)
- Rohl — primary (person)
- Vilhauer — primary (person)
- Wheeler — 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 6, NAYS 3 `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-23** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 21, NAYS 13 S.J. 81 `passage`
- **2025-01-24** First read in House and referred to H.J. 113 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-03** State Affairs Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 12A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-03** State Affairs Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 1
- **2025-02-05** House of Representatives Motion to amend , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 33 H.J. 206 Amendment 12B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-05** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 38, NAYS 29 H.J. 207
- **2025-02-10** Signed by the President S.J. 222 `passage`
- **2025-02-11** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 259 `passage`
- **2025-02-12** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-02-12 S.J. 250 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-19** Signed by the Governor on 2025-02-19 S.J. 288 `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/311f5811-36da-45a5-840c-451f6f6fc3c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).