---
type: "Bill"
title: "establish certain criminal offenses for boat operators and to provide penalties therefor."
description: "establish certain criminal offenses for boat operators and to provide penalties therefor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 8"
citation: "South Dakota SB 8 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boating", "Crimes", "Penalty", "Recreation and Sports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arlint", "Crabtree", "Davis", "Duhamel", "Fitzgerald", "Kull", "Larson", "Mehlhaff", "Reed", "Reisch", "Roby", "Rohl", "Smith", "Van Diepen", "Vilhauer", "Walburg", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0621f04e-0284-463d-b443-5c31b24393aa"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25656"
source_hash: "331420800e0eb73b502d5d1d149a0fb08a25d8966a3d8ade0e601d71dc130186"
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 8 (2025) — establish certain criminal offenses for boat operators and to provide penalties 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/25656/272394)
2. **8A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/277129.pdf)
3. **Senate Judiciary Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25656/280379)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25656/283450)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **52–18** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Arlint — primary (person)
- Crabtree — primary (person)
- Davis — primary (person)
- Duhamel — primary (person)
- Fitzgerald — primary (person)
- Kull — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Mehlhaff — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Reisch — primary (person)
- Roby — primary (person)
- Rohl — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Van Diepen — primary (person)
- Vilhauer — primary (person)
- Walburg — primary (person)
- Zikmund — 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`
- **2025-02-04** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2025-02-04** Judiciary Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 1 Amendment 8A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-04** Judiciary Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0 S.J. 1
- **2025-02-06** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 197
- **2025-02-07** First Reading House H.J. 226
- **2025-02-10** Referred to H.J. 240 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-26** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 52, NAYS 18 H.J. 427
- **2025-03-03** Signed by the President S.J. 425 `passage`
- **2025-03-04** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 455 `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-05 S.J. 450 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-13** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-13 S.J. 528 `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/0621f04e-0284-463d-b443-5c31b24393aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).