---
type: "Bill"
title: "update the roles of the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Department of Public Safety regarding burning and burn permit issuing authority."
description: "update the roles of the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Department of Public Safety regarding burning and burn permit issuing authority."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 34"
citation: "South Dakota SB 34 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Executive/Judiciary Request", "Firefighters", "Public Health and Safety", "State Affairs and Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9bd155b6-06ab-4e4b-bc34-34cfd39a6a3f"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25559"
source_hash: "231828a571cec208df5e86f7f47bfd528dc0dc09f11f0cded95c0ee30d569b4c"
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 34 (2025) — update the roles of the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Department of Public Safety regarding burning and burn permit issuing authority.

## 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/25559/273311)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25559/283251)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Agriculture and Natural Resources — 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`
- **2025-01-28** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-28** Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-28** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-01-29** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 128 `passage`
- **2025-01-30** First Reading House H.J. 159
- **2025-02-03** Referred to H.J. 172 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-25** Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-25** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-02-26** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 70, NAYS 0 H.J. 410 `passage`
- **2025-02-27** Signed by the President S.J. 411 `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 443 `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/9bd155b6-06ab-4e4b-bc34-34cfd39a6a3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).