---
type: "Bill"
title: "create the water infrastructure development fund, to provide an appropriation, to provide for the awarding of grants and loans from the fund for certain rural water projects and to declare an emergency."
description: "create the water infrastructure development fund, to provide an appropriation, to provide for the awarding of grants and loans from the fund for certain rural water projects and to declare an emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 231"
citation: "South Dakota SB 231 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriation", "Emergency Clause", "Fund", "Grants", "Promulgation of Rules", "Transfer of Moneys", "Water Management"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Deibert", "Duffy", "Duhamel", "Hulse", "Mortenson", "Perry", "Roe", "Wipf"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2026-02-04"
last_action: "2026-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3b9abc1-dca8-4297-9fe0-061057d51872"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/27265"
source_hash: "9d2fce8b48d3f249df1a27a0631c4c2fdab98a3e74aee1da502d3c9f284943cc"
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 231 (2026) — create the water infrastructure development fund, to provide an appropriation, to provide for the awarding of grants and loans from the fund for certain rural water projects and to declare an emergency.

## 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/27265/301225)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/27265/305995)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **13–3** (pass) · legislature
- Do Pass — **30–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **60–7** (pass) · lower
- Referred to — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Deibert — primary (person)
- Duffy — primary (person)
- Duhamel — primary (person)
- Hulse — primary (person)
- Mortenson — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Roe — primary (person)
- Wipf — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-04** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources S.J. 178 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-12** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2026-02-12** Referred to , Passed, Joint Committee on Appropriations YEAS 7, NAYS 0 S.J. 15 `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-25** Scheduled for hearing J.J. 1
- **2026-02-25** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 3 J.J. 29 `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-26** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 30, NAYS 2 S.J. 414 `passage`
- **2026-03-02** First Reading House H.J. 469
- **2026-03-02** Committee referral waived pursuant to JR 6D-1 H.J. 477
- **2026-03-03** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 60, NAYS 7 H.J. 488 `passage`
- **2026-03-04** Signed by the President S.J. 470 `passage`
- **2026-03-05** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 530 `passage`
- **2026-03-09** Delivered to the Governor on 2026-03-09 S.J. 488 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-30** Signed by the Governor on 2026-03-30 S.J. 550 `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/a3b9abc1-dca8-4297-9fe0-061057d51872`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).