---
type: "Bill"
title: "establish mandatory reporting requirements related to improper governmental conduct and crime, and to provide a penalty therefor."
description: "establish mandatory reporting requirements related to improper governmental conduct and crime, and to provide a penalty therefor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 62"
citation: "South Dakota SB 62 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Government Operations and Audit", "Penalty", "Public Officers and Employees", "Reports", "State Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e462873-711e-4dda-af4f-fbc6432c3a24"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25669"
source_hash: "5dd6a81a3ab9cc664fa3335604a0b6ac116a800c099aa7603956096a2b5fde02"
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 62 (2025) — establish mandatory reporting requirements related to improper governmental conduct and crime, and to provide a penalty therefor.

## 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/25669/274654)
2. **62A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/281453.pdf)
3. **62H** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/283417.pdf)
4. **House Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25669/283642)
5. **Senate Judiciary Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25669/281752)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25669/284015)

## Votes

- Motion to amend — **38–31** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Concurred in amendments — **20–14** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **66–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **33–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Judiciary — 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`
- **2025-02-11** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-11** Judiciary Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 62A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-11** Judiciary Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 1
- **2025-02-13** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 266
- **2025-02-18** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 2 S.J. 282
- **2025-02-19** First read in House and referred to H.J. 324 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-26** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 H.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, H.J. 1
- **2025-02-27** Remove from Consent Calendar H.J. 424
- **2025-03-03** House of Representatives Motion to amend , Passed, YEAS 38, NAYS 31 H.J. 438 Amendment 62H `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-03** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 66, NAYS 3 H.J. 439
- **2025-03-05** Senate Concurred in amendments , Passed, YEAS 20, NAYS 14 S.J. 451
- **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`
- **2025-03-13** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-13 S.J. 529 `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/8e462873-711e-4dda-af4f-fbc6432c3a24`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).