---
type: "Bill"
title: "establish an electronic system for vehicle titles."
description: "establish an electronic system for vehicle titles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 131"
citation: "South Dakota SB 131 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles", "Promulgation of Rules", "Property Tax", "Taxation", "Vehicle Dealers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bahmuller", "Crabtree", "Deibert", "Duhamel", "Emery", "Jamison", "Kolbeck (Steve)", "Kull", "Larson", "Muckey", "Perry", "Reed", "Roby", "Uhre-Balk", "Weisgram", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/691f0644-3061-45a7-90fa-85cf09f2e336"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26148"
source_hash: "cee01dbd1371f5ddc9a26f9949d3a988c54a88b3601f6f241523228e476adfc2"
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 131 (2025) — establish an electronic system for vehicle titles.

## 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/26148/278872)
2. **131B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/281214.pdf)
3. **Senate Transportation Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26148/281258)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26148/284186)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **68–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bahmuller — primary (person)
- Crabtree — primary (person)
- Deibert — primary (person)
- Duhamel — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Jamison — primary (person)
- Kolbeck (Steve) — primary (person)
- Kull — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Muckey — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Roby — primary (person)
- Uhre-Balk — primary (person)
- Weisgram — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 137 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-07** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-07** Transportation Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 131B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-07** Transportation Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0
- **2025-02-07** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-02-11** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 234
- **2025-02-12** First read in House and referred to H.J. 269 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-27** Transportation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0 H.J. 20 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-03** House of Representatives Deferred to another day , Passed, H.J. 435
- **2025-03-06** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 1 H.J. 479
- **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/691f0644-3061-45a7-90fa-85cf09f2e336`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).