---
type: "Bill"
title: "clarify the enactment and effective date of a measure initiated or referred within a political subdivision."
description: "clarify the enactment and effective date of a measure initiated or referred within a political subdivision."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 13"
citation: "South Dakota SB 13 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Initiated Measures", "Municipal Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carley", "Deibert", "Duhamel", "Goodwin", "Jensen (Kevin)", "Mehlhaff", "Otten", "Reimer", "Reisch", "Voight", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-02-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2873826-7f3e-4631-8786-1b54eb1e29fe"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25364"
source_hash: "5150beeabff78d125ebdb96768ea9c9c8e276ac3591e21acee600c1d7dd35980"
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 13 (2025) — clarify the enactment and effective date of a measure initiated or referred within a political subdivision.

## 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/25364/273290)
2. **13A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/275663.pdf)
3. **Senate Local Government Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25364/275799)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25364/279895)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion to amend — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carley — primary (person)
- Deibert — primary (person)
- Duhamel — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
- Mehlhaff — primary (person)
- Otten — primary (person)
- Reimer — primary (person)
- Reisch — primary (person)
- Voight — primary (person)
- Zikmund — 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`
- **2025-01-17** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-17** Local Government Motion to amend , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 Amendment 13A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-17** Local Government Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0
- **2025-01-17** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-01-22** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 72
- **2025-01-23** First read in House and referred to H.J. 106 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-30** Local Government Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-02-03** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 0 H.J. 172
- **2025-02-04** Signed by the President S.J. 168 `passage`
- **2025-02-05** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 207 `passage`
- **2025-02-06** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-02-06 S.J. 192 `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/b2873826-7f3e-4631-8786-1b54eb1e29fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).