---
type: "Bill"
title: "permit a sheriff to charge a fee for service of process, whether service is completed or not."
description: "permit a sheriff to charge a fee for service of process, whether service is completed or not."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 5"
citation: "South Dakota SB 5 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Fees", "Service of Process", "Sheriff"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bathke", "Baxter", "Deibert", "Duhamel", "Fitzgerald", "Garcia", "Grove", "Hulse", "Kull", "Larson", "Mehlhaff", "Moore", "Muckey", "Pourier", "Reed", "Reisch", "Roby", "Roe", "Stevens", "Uhre-Balk", "Van Diepen", "Voight", "Walburg"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-02-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b429c7d3-ebad-4b45-901c-dd19696424c0"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25635"
source_hash: "fa5213a195772bc5d8c5ed88ab7710f5084be6d6b1d1eea22d28fe40ae689af8"
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 5 (2025) — permit a sheriff to charge a fee for service of process, whether service is completed or not.

## 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/25635/272391)
2. **5A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/274313.pdf)
3. **Senate Judiciary Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25635/275535)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25635/279384)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **58–8** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bathke — primary (person)
- Baxter — primary (person)
- Deibert — primary (person)
- Duhamel — primary (person)
- Fitzgerald — primary (person)
- Garcia — primary (person)
- Grove — primary (person)
- Hulse — primary (person)
- Kull — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Mehlhaff — primary (person)
- Moore — primary (person)
- Muckey — primary (person)
- Pourier — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Reisch — primary (person)
- Roby — primary (person)
- Roe — primary (person)
- Stevens — primary (person)
- Uhre-Balk — primary (person)
- Van Diepen — primary (person)
- Voight — primary (person)
- Walburg — primary (person)

## 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`
- **2025-01-16** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-16** Judiciary Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 5A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-16** Judiciary Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0
- **2025-01-21** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 0 S.J. 64
- **2025-01-22** First read in House and referred to H.J. 52 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-29** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 58, NAYS 8 H.J. 163
- **2025-02-03** Signed by the President S.J. 157 `passage`
- **2025-02-04** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 188 `passage`
- **2025-02-05** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-02-05 S.J. 177 `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/b429c7d3-ebad-4b45-901c-dd19696424c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).