---
type: "Bill"
title: "update hunting and fishing residency requirements."
description: "update hunting and fishing residency requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 54"
citation: "South Dakota SB 54 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Executive/Judiciary Request", "Fishing", "Game", "Fish", "Parks and Forestry", "Hunting", "Residency"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-02-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e508cec-88c9-4464-9764-e75a5c2c59ba"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25007"
source_hash: "c65bb48359fc1e96c93f1bbd8df859ecad58055d3f525d53ed9f21db043ab1a5"
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 54 (2024) — update hunting and fishing residency requirements.

## 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/25007/258463)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25007/263419)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **37–29** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Agriculture and Natural Resources — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-09** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 16 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-16** Scheduled for hearing
- **2024-01-16** Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-17** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 0 S.J. 99 `passage`
- **2024-01-18** First read in House and referred to H.J. 85 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-23** Scheduled for hearing
- **2024-01-23** Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-23** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2024-01-24** Remove from Consent Calendar H.J. 165
- **2024-01-25** House of Representatives Deferred to another day , Passed, H.J. 180
- **2024-01-29** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 37, NAYS 29 H.J. 189 `passage`
- **2024-01-30** Signed by the President S.J. 207 `passage`
- **2024-01-31** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 219 `passage`
- **2024-02-01** Delivered to the Governor on 2024-02-01 S.J. 234 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-06** Signed by the Governor on 2024-02-06 S.J. 264 `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/7e508cec-88c9-4464-9764-e75a5c2c59ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).