---
type: "Bill"
title: "allow nonresident military members to purchase three-day temporary nonresident waterfowl licenses."
description: "allow nonresident military members to purchase three-day temporary nonresident waterfowl licenses."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1188"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1188 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Game", "Fish", "Parks and Forestry", "Hunting", "Military Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Baxter", "Ismay", "Moore", "Perry", "Reder", "Reisch", "Rohl"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63ff22eb-d7e6-4957-a60c-ea70728b57a7"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25999"
source_hash: "69752223ef7bbc0e94b8fb00ce14bc43851592e9c2389005f9a42146b776e39c"
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 1188 (2025) — allow nonresident military members to purchase three-day temporary nonresident waterfowl licenses.

## 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/25999/279223)
2. **1188A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/283471.pdf)
3. **Senate Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25999/283705)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25999/284020)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **11–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **3–3** (fail) · upper
- Report out of committee without recommendation — **4–2** (pass) · upper
- Placed on calendar pursuant to JR 6F-6 — **31–4** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **65–3** (pass) · lower
- Concurred in amendments — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Baxter — primary (person)
- Ismay — primary (person)
- Moore — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Reder — primary (person)
- Reisch — primary (person)
- Rohl — 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`
- **2025-02-10** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-10** Military and Veterans Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 1 H.J. 3 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12** House of Representatives Deferred to another day , Passed, H.J. 271
- **2025-02-13** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 65, NAYS 3 H.J. 290 `passage`
- **2025-02-18** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 279 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-27** Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 3, NAYS 3 `committee-failure`
- **2025-02-27** Agriculture and Natural Resources Report out of committee without recommendation , Passed, YEAS 4, NAYS 2
- **2025-03-03** Placed on calendar pursuant to JR 6F-6 , Passed, YEAS 31, NAYS 4 S.J. 416
- **2025-03-03** Senate Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 417 Amendment 1188A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-03** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 417
- **2025-03-05** House of Representatives Concurred in amendments , Passed, YEAS 70, NAYS 0 H.J. 461
- **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/63ff22eb-d7e6-4957-a60c-ea70728b57a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).