---
type: "Bill"
title: "increase civil penalties for commercial driver violations."
description: "increase civil penalties for commercial driver violations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 2"
citation: "South Dakota SB 2 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commercial Trucking", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Motor Vehicles", "Penalty", "Traffic Laws"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-02-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a76cbb9a-9e1e-4e7c-ac84-3d63acf8500a"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25599"
source_hash: "2d2a9a1ac212e269d18832d3b9754ca6b997570c1d918c5c6c9f3b3ca228ef9b"
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 2 (2025) — increase civil penalties for commercial driver violations.

## 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/25599/272388)
2. **2A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/274588.pdf)
3. **Senate Transportation Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25599/275837)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25599/279898)

## Votes

- Motion to amend — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **30–4** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **10–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **54–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Transportation — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-14** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 13 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-17** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-17** Transportation Motion to amend , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 Amendment 2A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-17** Transportation Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0
- **2025-01-17** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-01-22** Remove from Consent Calendar S.J. 72
- **2025-01-23** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 30, NAYS 4 S.J. 80
- **2025-01-24** First read in House and referred to H.J. 113 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-30** Transportation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 10, NAYS 3 H.J. 7 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 54, NAYS 14 H.J. 174
- **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/a76cbb9a-9e1e-4e7c-ac84-3d63acf8500a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).