---
type: "Bill"
title: "increase driver license fees."
description: "increase driver license fees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 3"
citation: "South Dakota SB 3 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commercial Trucking", "Driver License", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Fees", "Fund", "Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2e62ddf-b5cd-4e6b-aa2f-e8e3f73a33b1"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25596"
source_hash: "5c2a01b4dce9d3e8f2c3600c177be76fa618d14827a938fae9c9509bf39b4898"
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 3 (2025) — increase driver license fees.

## 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/25596/272389)
2. **3A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/275110.pdf)
3. **Senate Appropriations Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25596/282598)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25596/284224)

## Votes

- Deferred to another day — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **24–11** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **51–18** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **6–2** (pass) · upper

## 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. 11 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2025-02-10** Committee on Appropriations Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 3A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-20** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2025-02-20** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 2 S.J. 10
- **2025-02-24** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 24, NAYS 11 S.J. 355
- **2025-02-25** First read in House and referred to H.J. 384 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-03-03** Committee on Appropriations Deferred to another day , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 2
- **2025-03-05** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2025-03-05** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 51, NAYS 18 H.J. 485
- **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/a2e62ddf-b5cd-4e6b-aa2f-e8e3f73a33b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).