---
type: "Bill"
title: "impose a motor vehicle technology fee."
description: "impose a motor vehicle technology fee."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 45"
citation: "South Dakota SB 45 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriation", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Fees", "Fund", "Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f6f518d-5d57-454c-adc6-10e957dd55f9"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25633"
source_hash: "240dd8d41b5722ae80cf2a3fa08d2384e35bde7aa7b2f722da3022303c57c363"
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 45 (2025) — impose a motor vehicle technology fee.

## 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/25633/274066)
2. **45B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/283040.pdf)
3. **Joint Appropriations Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25633/283378)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25633/284083)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **57–13** (pass) · lower
- Referred to — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **22–13** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **15–3** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Transportation — 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`
- **2025-02-07** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-07** Referred to , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Scheduled for hearing J.J. 1
- **2025-02-21** Scheduled for hearing J.J. 1
- **2025-02-27** Scheduled for hearing J.J. 1
- **2025-02-27** Committee on Appropriations Motion to amend , Passed, J.J. 27 Amendment 45B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-27** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 15, NAYS 3 J.J. 27
- **2025-03-03** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 22, NAYS 13 S.J. 420
- **2025-03-04** First read in House and referral to committee waived pursuant to JR 6D-1 H.J. 451 `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-03-05** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 57, NAYS 13 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`
- **2025-03-31** 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/0f6f518d-5d57-454c-adc6-10e957dd55f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).