---
type: "Bill"
title: "prohibit the misrepresentation of an animal as a service animal and to provide a penalty therefor."
description: "prohibit the misrepresentation of an animal as a service animal and to provide a penalty therefor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 82"
citation: "South Dakota SB 82 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Animals and Livestock", "Crimes", "Penalty", "Trespass"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Baxter", "Carley", "Goodwin", "Howard", "Jensen (Kevin)", "Jensen (Phil)", "Moore", "Mortenson", "Nelson", "Perry", "Pischke", "Reimer", "Shubeck"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-14"
last_action: "2026-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b268839a-6931-493d-bf7b-ebd11935bcdd"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26554"
source_hash: "d29424b428b43f71c08198d52d9a520db14521ee57827dcabcd391af6aadc415"
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 82 (2026) — prohibit the misrepresentation of an animal as a service animal 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/26554/294108)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26554/305240)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Baxter — primary (person)
- Carley — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
- Moore — primary (person)
- Mortenson — primary (person)
- Nelson — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Pischke — primary (person)
- Reimer — primary (person)
- Shubeck — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-14** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Judiciary S.J. 34 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-27** Scheduled for hearing
- **2026-01-27** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 S.J. 7 `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-27** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, S.J. 7
- **2026-01-28** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 131 `passage`
- **2026-01-29** First Reading House H.J. 182
- **2026-02-02** Referred to House Judiciary H.J. 194 `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-25** Scheduled for hearing
- **2026-02-25** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0 H.J. 29 `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-25** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, H.J. 29
- **2026-02-26** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 66, NAYS 0 H.J. 457 `passage`
- **2026-03-02** Signed by the President S.J. 434 `passage`
- **2026-03-03** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 493 `passage`
- **2026-03-04** Delivered to the Governor on 2026-03-04 S.J. 455 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-09** Signed by the Governor on 2026-03-09 S.J. 488 `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/b268839a-6931-493d-bf7b-ebd11935bcdd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).