---
type: "Bill"
title: "authorize a change in bullet diameter for use in taking certain animals."
description: "authorize a change in bullet diameter for use in taking certain animals."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 78"
citation: "South Dakota SB 78 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Firearms", "Game", "Fish", "Parks and Forestry", "Hunting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aylward", "Baxter", "Crabtree", "Deibert", "Gosch", "Grove", "Jensen (Kevin)", "Jensen (Phil)", "Jordan", "Kull", "Mehlhaff", "Mulally", "Nelson", "Overweg", "Perry", "Pischke", "Voight", "Voita"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-17"
last_action: "2025-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbeb6762-ccbb-42ff-8530-33ba06a0620d"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25917"
source_hash: "ccc1e57b03633f42faf19ec2c2669004560d7489039c13a05cd9ceeca7b0296d"
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 78 (2025) — authorize a change in bullet diameter for use in taking certain animals.

## 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/25917/275576)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25917/283654)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aylward — primary (person)
- Baxter — primary (person)
- Crabtree — primary (person)
- Deibert — primary (person)
- Gosch — primary (person)
- Grove — primary (person)
- Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
- Jordan — primary (person)
- Kull — primary (person)
- Mehlhaff — primary (person)
- Mulally — primary (person)
- Nelson — primary (person)
- Overweg — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Pischke — primary (person)
- Voight — primary (person)
- Voita — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-17** First Reading Senate S.J. 58
- **2025-01-21** Referred to S.J. 63 `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-28** Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-29** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 129 `passage`
- **2025-01-30** First Reading House H.J. 159
- **2025-02-03** Referred to H.J. 172 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-27** Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-03-03** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 1 H.J. 436 `passage`
- **2025-03-04** Signed by the President S.J. 443 `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 470 `passage`
- **2025-03-06** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-06 S.J. 465 `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/cbeb6762-ccbb-42ff-8530-33ba06a0620d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).