---
type: "Bill"
title: "modify laws regarding school bus safety and to provide a penalty therefor."
description: "modify laws regarding school bus safety and to provide a penalty therefor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1094"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1094 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles", "Penalty", "School Districts", "Students", "Traffic Laws"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arlint", "Bahmuller", "Bathke", "Davis", "Deibert", "Emery", "Fitzgerald", "Greenfield", "Heermann", "Jorgenson", "Kassin", "Kull", "Ladner", "Massie", "Moore", "Muckey", "Perry", "Peterson (Drew)", "Reimer", "Reisch", "Sauder", "Uhre-Balk", "Walburg"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db27c09e-c117-4c9c-ad9b-5f5ee0d3cc20"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25632"
source_hash: "e8a60f3c95c1256959866b6bb33b1944e244dec149ac8d53d92017560a429cc9"
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 1094 (2025) — modify laws regarding school bus safety and to provide a penalty therefor.

## 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/25632/277054)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25632/283682)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **27–8** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **48–19** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Arlint — primary (person)
- Bahmuller — primary (person)
- Bathke — primary (person)
- Davis — primary (person)
- Deibert — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Fitzgerald — primary (person)
- Greenfield — primary (person)
- Heermann — primary (person)
- Jorgenson — primary (person)
- Kassin — primary (person)
- Kull — primary (person)
- Ladner — primary (person)
- Massie — primary (person)
- Moore — primary (person)
- Muckey — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Peterson (Drew) — primary (person)
- Reimer — primary (person)
- Reisch — primary (person)
- Sauder — primary (person)
- Uhre-Balk — primary (person)
- Walburg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** First read in House and referred to H.J. 113 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-03** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 H.J. 5 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-04** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 48, NAYS 19 H.J. 186 `passage`
- **2025-02-05** First Reading Senate S.J. 181
- **2025-02-10** Referred to S.J. 219 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-27** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-03** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 27, NAYS 8 S.J. 422 `passage`
- **2025-03-04** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 454 `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Signed by the President S.J. 456 `passage`
- **2025-03-06** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-06 H.J. 476 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-13** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-13 H.J. 543 `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/db27c09e-c117-4c9c-ad9b-5f5ee0d3cc20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).