---
type: "Bill"
title: "require the disclosure of whether a ballot question was proposed by initiative or by the Legislature."
description: "require the disclosure of whether a ballot question was proposed by initiative or by the Legislature."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 5"
citation: "South Dakota SB 5 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Ballot Measures", "Constitutional Amendments", "Elections", "Initiated Measures"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Deibert", "Emery", "Heermann", "Hulse", "Kassin", "Massie", "Moore", "Muckey", "Pourier", "Reed", "Rohl", "Schoenfish", "Shorma", "Uhre-Balk", "Vilhauer", "Wipf", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2026-01-13"
last_action: "2026-02-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31a6a411-1cbb-4128-a40e-dc0ef7a826a9"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26325"
source_hash: "c5f9c726c1ba7950f5217f4613ef072128958251fd7aa0d21aab6bfb7a972e84"
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 5 (2026) — require the disclosure of whether a ballot question was proposed by initiative or by the Legislature.

## 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/26325/291295)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26325/298350)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **64–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Deibert — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Heermann — primary (person)
- Hulse — primary (person)
- Kassin — primary (person)
- Massie — primary (person)
- Moore — primary (person)
- Muckey — primary (person)
- Pourier — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Rohl — primary (person)
- Schoenfish — primary (person)
- Shorma — primary (person)
- Uhre-Balk — primary (person)
- Vilhauer — primary (person)
- Wipf — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-13** First read in Senate and referred to Senate State Affairs S.J. 15 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-16** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2026-01-16** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 0 S.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-16** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, S.J. 1
- **2026-01-20** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 0 S.J. 67 `passage`
- **2026-01-21** First Reading House H.J. 105
- **2026-01-22** Referred to House State Affairs H.J. 114 `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-26** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2026-01-26** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 H.J. 3 `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-27** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 64, NAYS 1 H.J. 157 `passage`
- **2026-01-28** Signed by the President S.J. 134 `passage`
- **2026-01-29** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 185 `passage`
- **2026-02-02** Delivered to the Governor on 2026-02-02 S.J. 155 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-02-06** Signed by the Governor on 2026-02-06 S.J. 206 `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/31a6a411-1cbb-4128-a40e-dc0ef7a826a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).