---
type: "Bill"
title: "place restrictions on the ownership of agricultural land."
description: "place restrictions on the ownership of agricultural land."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1231"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1231 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agricultural Land", "Property", "Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blare", "Breitling", "Crabtree", "Drury", "Fitzgerald", "Hoffman", "Klumb", "Moore", "Mortenson", "Novstrup", "Otten (Ernie)", "Otten (Herman)", "Perry", "Pinnow", "Pischke", "Sauder", "Stevens", "Teunissen", "Tobin", "Wangsness", "Weisgram"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-31"
last_action: "2024-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e7bc8e6-ba0f-4447-9690-1bb3e481f7b5"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25259"
source_hash: "778d2d1bf3c3b3e0f7c6355a50bdcd1328adca7d3a05c76058f5ef6303ccdb17"
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 HB 1231 (2024) — place restrictions on the ownership of agricultural land.

## 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/25259/264011)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25259/266435)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **30–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **61–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blare — primary (person)
- Breitling — primary (person)
- Crabtree — primary (person)
- Drury — primary (person)
- Fitzgerald — primary (person)
- Hoffman — primary (person)
- Klumb — primary (person)
- Moore — primary (person)
- Mortenson — primary (person)
- Novstrup — primary (person)
- Otten (Ernie) — primary (person)
- Otten (Herman) — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Pinnow — primary (person)
- Pischke — primary (person)
- Sauder — primary (person)
- Stevens — primary (person)
- Teunissen — primary (person)
- Tobin — primary (person)
- Wangsness — primary (person)
- Weisgram — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-31** First read in House and referred to H.J. 210 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08** Scheduled for hearing
- **2024-02-08** Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-12** Deferred with pending amendment (Rule 5-17) , Passed, H.J. 310
- **2024-02-13** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 61, NAYS 6 H.J. 320 `passage`
- **2024-02-14** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 328 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Scheduled for hearing
- **2024-02-22** Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-23** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 30, NAYS 2 S.J. 400 `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 406 `passage`
- **2024-02-27** Signed by the President S.J. 436 `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Delivered to the Governor on 2024-02-28 H.J. 420 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-04** Signed by the Governor on 2024-03-04 H.J. 455 `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/7e7bc8e6-ba0f-4447-9690-1bb3e481f7b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).