---
type: "Bill"
title: "allow an applicant to have an interpreter present during the driving portion of a driver license exam."
description: "allow an applicant to have an interpreter present during the driving portion of a driver license exam."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 193"
citation: "South Dakota SB 193 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Driver License", "Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emery", "Healy", "Hunt", "Larson", "Miskimins", "Muckey", "Smith", "Uhre-Balk", "Weems", "Wittman"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-04"
last_action: "2025-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48be106b-1779-4704-b459-def4d0f8a85d"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25929"
source_hash: "5a794635b27fe034190f819c99dc2d08f69d59ed55d410457512ac1c381df368"
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 193 (2025) — allow an applicant to have an interpreter present during the driving portion of a driver license exam.

## 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/25929/279829)
2. **193A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/281819.pdf)
3. **193B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/282420.pdf)
4. **193C** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/282592.pdf)
5. **Senate Local Government Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25929/282750)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25929/284067)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **59–11** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **33–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **9–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Emery — primary (person)
- Healy — primary (person)
- Hunt — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Miskimins — primary (person)
- Muckey — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Uhre-Balk — primary (person)
- Weems — primary (person)
- Wittman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-04** First Reading Senate S.J. 165
- **2025-02-06** Referred to S.J. 195 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-19** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-19** Local Government Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 193A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-19** Local Government Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 193B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-19** Local Government Deferred to another day , Passed,
- **2025-02-21** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-21** Local Government Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 193C `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-21** Local Government Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0
- **2025-02-25** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 2 S.J. 382
- **2025-02-26** First read in House and referred to H.J. 410 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-03-04** Transportation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 3 H.J. 23 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 59, NAYS 11 H.J. 467
- **2025-03-06** Signed by the President S.J. 473 `passage`
- **2025-03-06** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 488 `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-10 S.J. 478 `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/48be106b-1779-4704-b459-def4d0f8a85d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).