---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise certain provisions pertaining to municipal government."
description: "revise certain provisions pertaining to municipal government."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 167"
citation: "South Dakota SB 167 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipal Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reed", "Roby"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/077f98e9-6baf-407a-b52c-3ddfe67e6d2b"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25944"
source_hash: "a5ea042cde121bdebde0d0ddfbc453366e344cdf6bc7809b247f2529dd06427d"
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 167 (2025) — revise certain provisions pertaining to municipal government.

## 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/25944/279205)
2. **167A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/281093.pdf)
3. **167B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/281857.pdf)
4. **Senate Local Government Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25944/281887)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25944/283278)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **68–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Reed — primary (person)
- Roby — 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`
- **2025-02-12** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-12** Local Government Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 167A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-12** Local Government Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 167B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-12** Local Government Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0
- **2025-02-12** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-02-18** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 280
- **2025-02-19** First read in House and referred to H.J. 324 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-25** Local Government Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 2 H.J. 412
- **2025-03-03** Signed by the President S.J. 425 `passage`
- **2025-03-04** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 455 `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-05 S.J. 450 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-13** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-13 S.J. 528 `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/077f98e9-6baf-407a-b52c-3ddfe67e6d2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).