---
type: "Bill"
title: "modify the maximum sparsity benefit a sparse school district is eligible to receive."
description: "modify the maximum sparsity benefit a sparse school district is eligible to receive."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 70"
citation: "South Dakota SB 70 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "State Aid to Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Auch", "Emery", "Foster", "Grove", "Hunt", "Ismay", "Jensen (Phil)", "Larson", "Marty", "May", "Muckey", "Perry", "Pischke", "Rice"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-15"
last_action: "2025-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b70c00b-1611-4098-926e-b242d48f6eb1"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25660"
source_hash: "dda510879d52fccb702aaf0299a8eab2d893ef7ce8498396669a6e0f488b62c7"
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 70 (2025) — modify the maximum sparsity benefit a sparse school district is eligible to receive.

## 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/25660/275040)
2. **70B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/281519.pdf)
3. **70C** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/282560.pdf)
4. **Senate Appropriations Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25660/282600)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25660/284337)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **5–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- Referred to — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **27–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Auch — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Foster — primary (person)
- Grove — primary (person)
- Hunt — primary (person)
- Ismay — primary (person)
- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Marty — primary (person)
- May — primary (person)
- Muckey — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Pischke — primary (person)
- Rice — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-01-15** First Reading Senate S.J. 31
- **2025-01-17** Referred to S.J. 58 `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-28** Education Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 1 S.J. 3 `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-29** Referred to , Passed, S.J. 126 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2025-02-20** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2025-02-20** Committee on Appropriations Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 10 Amendment 70B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-20** Committee on Appropriations Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 11 Amendment 70C `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-20** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 3 S.J. 11
- **2025-02-24** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 27, NAYS 8 S.J. 356
- **2025-02-25** First read in House and referred to H.J. 384 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-03-05** Referred to , Passed, YEAS 15, NAYS 0 `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2025-03-06** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-10** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 69, NAYS 0 H.J. 504
- **2025-03-11** Signed by the President S.J. 511 `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 524 `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-12 S.J. 517 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-31** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-31 S.J. 538 `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/0b70c00b-1611-4098-926e-b242d48f6eb1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).