---
type: "Bill"
title: "modernize provisions relating to water development districts."
description: "modernize provisions relating to water development districts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1072"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1072 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Petitions", "Water Management"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bathke", "Duhamel", "Healy", "Kull", "Larson", "Muckey", "Perry", "Smith", "Uhre-Balk", "Vasgaard", "Wittman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-02-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4e33ed3-69f6-4d4f-8000-33fe392672a8"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25419"
source_hash: "9fd1ec2e7d7027502696b0ae92c24f2368f47ca38eafff2b5fef4b4ab5db05fb"
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 1072 (2025) — modernize provisions relating to water development districts.

## 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/25419/275817)
2. **1072A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/278462.pdf)
3. **House Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25419/279380)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25419/282113)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **56–9** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bathke — primary (person)
- Duhamel — primary (person)
- Healy — primary (person)
- Kull — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Muckey — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Uhre-Balk — primary (person)
- Vasgaard — primary (person)
- Wittman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** First read in House and referred to H.J. 43 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-28** Local Government Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-28** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-01-29** Remove from Consent Calendar H.J. 146
- **2025-01-30** House of Representatives Motion to amend , Passed, H.J. 160 Amendment 1072A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-30** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 56, NAYS 9 H.J. 160
- **2025-02-03** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 152 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-12** Local Government Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 271
- **2025-02-18** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 315 `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Signed by the President S.J. 304 `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-02-20 H.J. 338 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-25** Signed by the Governor on 2025-02-25 H.J. 382 `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/e4e33ed3-69f6-4d4f-8000-33fe392672a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).