---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise property tax levies for school districts and to revise the state aid to general and special education formulas."
description: "revise property tax levies for school districts and to revise the state aid to general and special education formulas."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 55"
citation: "South Dakota SB 55 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Property Tax", "School Districts", "State Aid to Education", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7cbfc100-3ea2-41bc-a782-47b620de2431"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25866"
source_hash: "cf9c7a90b35d86489b94204dea8225d01854701be8a8d0ac3a1ca7b2617c009d"
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 55 (2025) — revise property tax levies for school districts and to revise the state aid to general and special education formulas.

## 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/25866/274269)
2. **55A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/284392.pdf)
3. **Joint Appropriations Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25866/284496)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25866/284536)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **16–1** (pass) · legislature
- Do Pass Amended — **58–12** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **33–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Senate Committee on Appropriations — 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`
- **2025-01-15** Referred to , Passed, S.J. 31 `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Scheduled for hearing J.J. 2
- **2025-03-11** Committee on Appropriations Motion to amend , Passed, J.J. 46 Amendment 55A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-11** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 16, NAYS 1 J.J. 46
- **2025-03-13** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 2 S.J. 531
- **2025-03-13** First read in House and referral to committee waived pursuant to JR 6D-1 H.J. 547 `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-03-13** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 58, NAYS 12 H.J. 547
- **2025-03-13** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 549 `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Signed by the President S.J. 534 `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-13 S.J. 535 `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/7cbfc100-3ea2-41bc-a782-47b620de2431`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).