---
type: "Bill"
title: "limit the types of residential improvements for which counties, municipalities, and townships may require a permit."
description: "limit the types of residential improvements for which counties, municipalities, and townships may require a permit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 3"
citation: "South Dakota SB 3 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Construction Standards", "Local Government Generally", "Planning", "Zoning and Housing Programs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aylward", "Baxter", "Crabtree", "Greenfield", "Howard", "Jensen (Kevin)", "Mehlhaff", "Nelson", "Overweg", "Rohl", "Voita"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2026-01-13"
last_action: "2026-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7d1f579-f9f5-41a6-9641-218212679b57"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26320"
source_hash: "21677dbeb83ec8f9928df9109b933bf3210d17923b4c2e5aff37867e1c151086"
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 3 (2026) — limit the types of residential improvements for which counties, municipalities, and townships may require a permit.

## 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/26320/291293)
2. **3B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/300801.pdf)
3. **3C** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/303152.pdf)
4. **3E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/305384.pdf)
5. **Conference Committee Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26320/306342)
6. **House Local Government Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26320/303197)
7. **Senate Local Government Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26320/301306)
8. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26320/306508)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **4–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **8–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **64–3** (pass) · lower
- Conference Committee Report adopted — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **28–6** (pass) · upper
- Conference Committee Report adopted — **67–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aylward — primary (person)
- Baxter — primary (person)
- Crabtree — primary (person)
- Greenfield — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
- Mehlhaff — primary (person)
- Nelson — primary (person)
- Overweg — primary (person)
- Rohl — primary (person)
- Voita — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-13** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Local Government S.J. 14 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-04** Scheduled for hearing
- **2026-02-04** Local Government Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 3 Amendment 3B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-04** Local Government Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 4, NAYS 3 S.J. 4
- **2026-02-06** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 28, NAYS 6 S.J. 213
- **2026-02-09** First read in House and referred to House Local Government H.J. 261 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-12** Scheduled for hearing
- **2026-02-12** Local Government Motion to amend , Passed, H.J. 10 Amendment 3C `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-12** Local Government Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 3 H.J. 10
- **2026-02-18** House of Representatives Deferred to another day , Passed, H.J. 361
- **2026-02-19** House of Representatives Deferred to another day , Passed, H.J. 372
- **2026-02-20** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 64, NAYS 3 H.J. 396
- **2026-02-24** Senate Failed to concur, appoint Conference Committee , Passed, S.J. 370
- **2026-02-25** House of Representatives Conference Committee appointments H.J. 442
- **2026-03-02** Scheduled for hearing
- **2026-03-02** Motion to amend , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0 Amendment 3E `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2026-03-02** Conference Committee Report adopted , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0
- **2026-03-04** House of Representatives Conference Committee Report adopted , Passed, YEAS 67, NAYS 0 H.J. 508
- **2026-03-04** Senate Conference Committee Report adopted , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 459
- **2026-03-09** Signed by the President S.J. 505 `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 553 `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Delivered to the Governor on 2026-03-11 S.J. 520 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-30** Signed by the Governor on 2026-03-30 S.J. 548 `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/d7d1f579-f9f5-41a6-9641-218212679b57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).