---
type: "Bill"
title: "allow additional forms to verify military service for a veteran designation on a commercial driver license or commercial learner's permit."
description: "allow additional forms to verify military service for a veteran designation on a commercial driver license or commercial learner's permit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1161"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1161 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Driver License", "Motor Vehicles", "Veterans Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bathke", "Baxter", "Emery", "Goodwin", "Jensen (Phil)", "Pourier", "Reisch", "Smith", "Uhre-Balk"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/507c570f-1798-4183-90b5-8ed2886909f1"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25598"
source_hash: "8df2ceeedbb956d94876a1a33ad6790e838a37525fc72df5904203446a97af16"
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 1161 (2025) — allow additional forms to verify military service for a veteran designation on a commercial driver license or commercial learner's permit.

## 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/25598/279117)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25598/284046)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **69–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bathke — primary (person)
- Baxter — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
- Pourier — primary (person)
- Reisch — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Uhre-Balk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** First Reading House H.J. 154
- **2025-02-03** Referred to H.J. 171 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-18** Military and Veterans Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-18** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-02-20** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 69, NAYS 1 H.J. 345 `passage`
- **2025-02-21** First Reading Senate S.J. 341
- **2025-02-24** Referred to S.J. 355 `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-03-03** Military and Veterans Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-03** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-03-05** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 452 `passage`
- **2025-03-06** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 488 `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by the President S.J. 503 `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-12 H.J. 528 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-31** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-31 H.J. 554 `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/507c570f-1798-4183-90b5-8ed2886909f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).