---
type: "Bill"
title: "regulate the retail sale of nicotine products, and to provide a penalty therefor."
description: "regulate the retail sale of nicotine products, and to provide a penalty therefor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 221"
citation: "South Dakota SB 221 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Procedure", "Delayed Effective Date", "Electronic Smoking Devices", "Hoghouse-Vehicle Bill", "Licensure", "Penalty", "Trade"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Karr", "Mulder", "Perry"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2026-02-04"
last_action: "2026-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2057f3be-2a38-43b0-a9ca-9def1dfa4f0b"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/27278"
source_hash: "36a2c49d73fdd17a37c0d84bffc0b98048e0d313970d99121a015e065e3e4238"
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 221 (2026) — regulate the retail sale of nicotine products, and to provide a penalty 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/27278/301026)
2. **221A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/304010.pdf)
3. **221B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/304635.pdf)
4. **221F** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/305950.pdf)
5. **221G** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/306352.pdf)
6. **House Commerce and Energy Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/27278/306252)
7. **House Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/27278/306541)
8. **Senate Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/27278/304869)
9. **Senate Health and Human Services Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/27278/304292)
10. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/27278/306639)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **22–11** (pass) · upper
- Concurred in amendments — **29–5** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **66–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **7–6** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Karr — primary (person)
- Mulder — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-04** First Reading Senate S.J. 180
- **2026-02-05** Referred to Senate Health and Human Services S.J. 199 `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-20** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2026-02-20** Health and Human Services Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 17 Amendment 221A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-20** Health and Human Services Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 S.J. 17
- **2026-02-24** Senate Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 381 Amendment 221B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-24** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 22, NAYS 11 S.J. 384
- **2026-02-25** First read in House and referred to House Commerce and Energy H.J. 445 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-04** Scheduled for hearing
- **2026-03-04** Commerce and Energy Motion to amend , Passed, H.J. 19 Amendment 221F `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2026-03-04** Commerce and Energy Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 6 H.J. 19
- **2026-03-09** House of Representatives Motion to amend , Passed, H.J. 537 Amendment 221G `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2026-03-09** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 66, NAYS 3 H.J. 537
- **2026-03-10** Senate Concurred in amendments , Passed, YEAS 29, NAYS 5 S.J. 515
- **2026-03-11** Signed by the President S.J. 525 `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 560 `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Delivered to the Governor on 2026-03-12 S.J. 539 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-30** Signed by the Governor on 2026-03-30 S.J. 549 `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/2057f3be-2a38-43b0-a9ca-9def1dfa4f0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).