---
type: "Bill"
title: "update the South Dakota Retirement System member identity verification procedures."
description: "update the South Dakota Retirement System member identity verification procedures."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1031"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1031 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Executive/Judiciary Request", "Public Officers and Employees", "Retirement System"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-02-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41154532-26d3-437f-871c-f06ea6544fa4"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25846"
source_hash: "67e6024a1d3821f9b5007e4ad59a7d3a19b2e43eb4456f7fa224f3a1d95b7c32"
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 1031 (2025) — update the South Dakota Retirement System member identity verification procedures.

## 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/25846/274108)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25846/281326)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **4–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **68–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Retirement Laws — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-14** First read in House and referred to H.J. 13 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-22** Retirement Laws Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 4, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-22** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-01-24** Remove from Consent Calendar H.J. 114
- **2025-01-27** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 0 H.J. 123 `passage`
- **2025-01-28** First Reading Senate S.J. 112
- **2025-01-30** Referred to S.J. 143 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2025-02-05** Retirement Laws Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 4, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-05** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-02-07** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 210 `passage`
- **2025-02-10** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 245 `passage`
- **2025-02-11** Signed by the President S.J. 241 `passage`
- **2025-02-12** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-02-12 H.J. 262 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-19** Signed by the Governor on 2025-02-19 H.J. 318 `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/41154532-26d3-437f-871c-f06ea6544fa4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).