---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise driver's license suspensions for restricted permit holders over the age of sixteen."
description: "revise driver's license suspensions for restricted permit holders over the age of sixteen."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 61"
citation: "South Dakota SB 61 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Driver License", "Minors", "Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blare", "Castleberry", "Emery", "Klumb", "Larson", "Reimer", "Shorma", "Wiik", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-01-17"
last_action: "2023-02-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12ab8405-89f0-4a2b-a76e-66f6f43b4033"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23987"
source_hash: "4ae96d771d42ed600b6bd6f5f4ae72a0be6ddf6bb2bead53dd58b77bda45e5a9"
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 61 (2023) — revise driver's license suspensions for restricted permit holders over the age of sixteen.

## 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/23987/243411)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23987/249482)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **69–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blare — primary (person)
- Castleberry — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Klumb — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Reimer — primary (person)
- Shorma — primary (person)
- Wiik — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-17** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 55 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2023-01-25** Transportation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 S.J. 7 `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-25** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, S.J. 7
- **2023-01-26** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 128
- **2023-01-30** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 137 `passage`
- **2023-01-31** First read in House and referred to H.J. 181 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Scheduled for hearing
- **2023-02-09** Transportation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13** House of Representatives Deferred to another day , Passed, H.J. 287
- **2023-02-14** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 69, NAYS 1 H.J. 298 `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Signed by the President S.J. 278 `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 326 `passage`
- **2023-02-21** Delivered to the Governor on 2023-02-21 S.J. 300 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-28** Signed by the Governor on 2023-02-28 S.J. 364 `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/12ab8405-89f0-4a2b-a76e-66f6f43b4033`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).