---
type: "Bill"
title: "remove the prohibition against a landowner having an easement on the landowner's property."
description: "remove the prohibition against a landowner having an easement on the landowner's property."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 215"
citation: "South Dakota SB 215 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Easements", "Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crabtree", "Deibert", "Roby"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-05"
last_action: "2025-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4f1d2e2-309d-4ffd-8d68-90306c3b49f7"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26192"
source_hash: "01803653dc674835402c93cf8c6a8f5bd2b32bc98eb33910c28051be77b6ca25"
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 SB 215 (2025) — remove the prohibition against a landowner having an easement on the landowner's property.

## 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/26192/280866)
2. **215B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/281680.pdf)
3. **Senate Judiciary Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26192/282043)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26192/284188)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Crabtree — primary (person)
- Deibert — primary (person)
- Roby — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-05** First Reading Senate S.J. 178
- **2025-02-07** Referred to S.J. 209 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-12** Judiciary Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 215B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-12** Judiciary Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0
- **2025-02-12** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-02-19** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 297
- **2025-02-20** First read in House and referred to H.J. 344 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-03-05** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0 H.J. 9 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, H.J. 9
- **2025-03-06** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 69, NAYS 0 H.J. 478
- **2025-03-10** Signed by the President S.J. 502 `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 524 `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-12 S.J. 517 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-31** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-31 S.J. 539 `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/f4f1d2e2-309d-4ffd-8d68-90306c3b49f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).