---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise the penalty and provide treatment for the ingestion of certain controlled substances."
description: "revise the penalty and provide treatment for the ingestion of certain controlled substances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 83"
citation: "South Dakota SB 83 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Controlled Substances", "Crimes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andera", "Aylward", "Baxter", "Emery", "Foster", "Grove", "Larson", "Muckey", "Mulder", "Perry", "Pourier", "Smith", "Uhre-Balk", "Wittman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80f26676-a5b5-47f5-9bc4-38d4a8f0c625"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25912"
source_hash: "0806a64e15dad070d6da2a6cdf94630702496e746d6e172a82436b293d3637f8"
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 83 (2025) — revise the penalty and provide treatment for the ingestion of certain controlled substances.

## 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/25912/276332)
2. **83A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/278751.pdf)
3. **83B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/279809.pdf)
4. **Senate Judiciary Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25912/280380)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25912/283451)

## Votes

- Placed on calendar pursuant to JR 6F-6 — **49–21** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **18–17** (pass) · upper
- Report out of committee without recommendation — **10–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **37–33** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **5–8** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Andera — primary (person)
- Aylward — primary (person)
- Baxter — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Foster — primary (person)
- Grove — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Muckey — primary (person)
- Mulder — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Pourier — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Uhre-Balk — primary (person)
- Wittman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** First Reading Senate S.J. 71
- **2025-01-27** Referred to S.J. 101 `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-30** Judiciary Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 83A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-30** Judiciary Deferred to another day , Passed,
- **2025-02-04** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2025-02-04** Judiciary Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 1 Amendment 83B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-04** Judiciary Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 1 S.J. 1
- **2025-02-06** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 18, NAYS 17 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 5, NAYS 8 `committee-failure`
- **2025-02-26** Judiciary Report out of committee without recommendation , Passed, YEAS 10, NAYS 3
- **2025-02-27** Placed on calendar pursuant to JR 6F-6 , Passed, YEAS 49, NAYS 21 H.J. 423
- **2025-02-27** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 37, NAYS 33 H.J. 428
- **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. 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/80f26676-a5b5-47f5-9bc4-38d4a8f0c625`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).