---
type: "Bill"
title: "reduce employer contribution rates and increase the administrative fee rate for reemployment assistance."
description: "reduce employer contribution rates and increase the administrative fee rate for reemployment assistance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 26"
citation: "South Dakota SB 26 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Executive/Judiciary Request", "Fees", "Reemployment Assistance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81181f8a-8c05-48c9-b75c-d68018d3bbbb"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25548"
source_hash: "47488e273e103901e99dcdb8123484f97f1e982c7c41b3105354c4242bde0279"
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 26 (2025) — reduce employer contribution rates and increase the administrative fee rate for reemployment assistance.

## 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/25548/273303)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25548/284235)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **65–4** (pass) · lower
- Referred to — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Commerce and Energy — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-14** First Reading Senate S.J. 14
- **2025-01-21** Referred to S.J. 63 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-04** Commerce and Energy Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-04** Referred to , Passed, S.J. 164 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2025-02-18** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-19** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 298 `passage`
- **2025-02-20** First read in House and referred to H.J. 344 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-03-03** Referred to , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2025-03-05** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 65, NAYS 4 H.J. 485 `passage`
- **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. 539 `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/81181f8a-8c05-48c9-b75c-d68018d3bbbb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).