---
type: "Bill"
title: "require legislative approval for significant capital expenditures by the Department of Game, Fish and Parks."
description: "require legislative approval for significant capital expenditures by the Department of Game, Fish and Parks."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 144"
citation: "South Dakota SB 144 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fund", "Game", "Fish", "Parks and Forestry", "Legislative Oversight", "Procurement of Public Improvements"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andera", "Baxter", "Emery", "Ismay", "Jensen (Phil)", "Karr", "May", "Overweg", "Perry", "Peterson (Sue)", "Pischke", "Randolph"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e64aca95-7a55-4a83-8c0b-4d36d4ea386f"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25898"
source_hash: "18a5a7d4aeacf5e75bea93835314ff09001ea689ee54d91be31515f4fba60044"
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 144 (2025) — require legislative approval for significant capital expenditures by the Department of Game, Fish and Parks.

## 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/25898/279078)
2. **144B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/282517.pdf)
3. **Senate Appropriations Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25898/282602)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25898/284336)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **8–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **53–16** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Andera — primary (person)
- Baxter — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Ismay — primary (person)
- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
- Karr — primary (person)
- May — primary (person)
- Overweg — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Peterson (Sue) — primary (person)
- Pischke — primary (person)
- Randolph — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** First Reading Senate S.J. 137
- **2025-02-03** Referred to S.J. 152 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2025-02-20** Committee on Appropriations Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 1 Amendment 144B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-20** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0 S.J. 6
- **2025-02-24** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 358
- **2025-02-25** First read in House and referred to H.J. 384 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-03-06** Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 3 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-10** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 53, NAYS 16 H.J. 504
- **2025-03-11** Signed by the President S.J. 511 `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 524 `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-11 S.J. 512 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-13** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-13 S.J. 529 `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/e64aca95-7a55-4a83-8c0b-4d36d4ea386f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).