republic-os/legislation/us/states/sd/2025/sb-164.md

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Bill	prohibit the use of a deepfake to influence an election and to provide a penalty therefor.	prohibit the use of a deepfake to influence an election and to provide a penalty therefor.	us/states/sd	South Dakota Legislature	2025	SB 164	South Dakota SB 164 (2025)	bill	Artificial Intelligence Crimes Elections Penalty	enacted	Emery Larson Moore Muckey Perry Smith Uhre-Balk Weisgram Wittman	4	17	4	2025-01-30	2025-03-31	openstates	ocd-bill/e00515bc-9641-4f8b-a946-902445cabefd	https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26046	9787af82b04f81a22b88d0ffac82a5864ef64e98f282d152b328cf3f563e248a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-sd

South Dakota SB 164 (2025) — prohibit the use of a deepfake to influence an election 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
2. 164C (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate State Affairs Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do Pass Amended — 32–3 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass Amended — 8–1 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass Amended — 45–24 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 13–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Emery — primary (person)
• Larson — primary (person)
• Moore — primary (person)
• Muckey — primary (person)
• Perry — primary (person)
• Smith — primary (person)
• Uhre-Balk — primary (person)
• Weisgram — primary (person)
• Wittman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-30 First Reading Senate S.J. 137
• 2025-02-07 Referred to S.J. 209 referral-committee
• 2025-02-21 Scheduled for hearing
• 2025-02-24 Scheduled for hearing
• 2025-02-24 State Affairs Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 1 Amendment 164C amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-02-24 State Affairs Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 1 S.J. 1
• 2025-02-25 Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 3 S.J. 379
• 2025-02-26 First read in House and referred to H.J. 410 introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-05 Scheduled for hearing
• 2025-03-05 Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 H.J. 10 committee-passage
• 2025-03-05 Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, H.J. 10
• 2025-03-06 Remove from Consent Calendar H.J. 478
• 2025-03-10 House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 45, NAYS 24 H.J. 502
• 2025-03-11 Signed by the President S.J. 511 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; origin ocd-bill/e00515bc-9641-4f8b-a946-902445cabefd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).