---
type: "Bill"
title: "extend the timeframe for filling a vacancy in a board of county commissioners."
description: "extend the timeframe for filling a vacancy in a board of county commissioners."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 84"
citation: "South Dakota SB 84 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Public Officers and Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Auch", "Aylward", "Bathke", "Baxter", "Deibert", "Fitzgerald", "Jordan", "Larson", "Nelson", "Perry", "Reed"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b7699e0-1bcd-4d47-91ca-666e9819f165"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25893"
source_hash: "e72d33275d40ba2ae5601d809a03cbb4dd85e47678e1446eaa99f4c83c5e7ce6"
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 84 (2025) — extend the timeframe for filling a vacancy in a board of county commissioners.

## 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/25893/276390)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25893/282793)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **68–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Auch — primary (person)
- Aylward — primary (person)
- Bathke — primary (person)
- Baxter — primary (person)
- Deibert — primary (person)
- Fitzgerald — primary (person)
- Jordan — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Nelson — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Reed — 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`
- **2025-02-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-03** Local Government Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-02-04** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 165 `passage`
- **2025-02-05** First Reading House H.J. 202
- **2025-02-10** Referred to H.J. 239 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-20** Local Government Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-20** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-02-21** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 1 H.J. 360 `passage`
- **2025-02-24** Signed by the President S.J. 363 `passage`
- **2025-02-25** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 401 `passage`
- **2025-02-26** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-02-26 S.J. 391 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-04** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-04 S.J. 428 `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/2b7699e0-1bcd-4d47-91ca-666e9819f165`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).