republic-os/legislation/us/states/sd/2025/sb-63.md

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Bill	establish protections for state employees who report improper governmental conduct and crime.	establish protections for state employees who report improper governmental conduct and crime.	us/states/sd	South Dakota Legislature	2025	SB 63	South Dakota SB 63 (2025)	bill	Executive/Judiciary Request Government Operations and Audit Public Officers and Employees Reports State Employees	enacted		4	17	4	2025-01-14	2025-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/8318aff9-deb3-48c8-937e-d420cdffcf48	https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25670	65137f7dd259f2c2b3a8849a4eb41014f6c9ec0eb10cb7330fbc241ba7dcb472	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-sd

South Dakota SB 63 (2025) — establish protections for state employees who report improper governmental conduct and crime.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. 63A (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate Judiciary Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do Pass — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass Amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass — 70–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Judiciary — primary (organization)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-14 First Reading Senate S.J. 14
• 2025-01-21 Referred to S.J. 63 referral-committee
• 2025-02-11 Scheduled for hearing
• 2025-02-11 Judiciary Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 63A amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-02-11 Judiciary Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0
• 2025-02-11 Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
• 2025-02-13 Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 268
• 2025-02-18 First Reading House H.J. 306
• 2025-02-19 Referred to H.J. 324 referral-committee
• 2025-02-26 Scheduled for hearing
• 2025-02-26 State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 H.J. 1 committee-passage
• 2025-02-26 Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, H.J. 1
• 2025-02-27 House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 70, NAYS 0 H.J. 424
• 2025-03-03 Signed by the President S.J. 425 passage
• 2025-03-04 Signed by the Speaker H.J. 455 passage
• 2025-03-05 Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-05 S.J. 450 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-13 Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-13 S.J. 529 executive-signature, executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8318aff9-deb3-48c8-937e-d420cdffcf48. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).