republic-os/legislation/us/states/sd/2025/sb-68.md

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Bill	require an individual be a citizen of the United States before being eligible to vote and to provide a penalty therefor.	require an individual be a citizen of the United States before being eligible to vote and to provide a penalty therefor.	us/states/sd	South Dakota Legislature	2025	SB 68	South Dakota SB 68 (2025)	bill	Crimes Elections Penalty Voting	enacted	Andera Aylward Baxter Blanc Carley Goodwin Greenfield Grove Howard Hulse Ismay Jensen (Kevin) Jensen (Phil) Jordan Manhart Massie Moore Mulally Nelson Pischke Rice Schaefbauer Schwans Sjaarda Voight	8	22	6	2025-01-14	2025-03-31	openstates	ocd-bill/3d0b7898-725e-488a-a5ba-7ed99c9a5e55	https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25822	666d94e110f7467b3f657034e91ca06800fabe0d93cf4e9844ebcbe7a7d3b388	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-sd

South Dakota SB 68 (2025) — require an individual be a citizen of the United States before being eligible to vote 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. 68D (committee substitute) — source
3. 68F (committee substitute) — source
4. 68K (committee substitute) — source
5. Conference Committee Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
6. House State Affairs Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do Pass Amended — 32–3 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass Amended — 63–6 (pass) · lower
• Conference Committee Report adopted — 66–4 (pass) · lower
• Conference Committee Report adopted — 32–2 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass Amended — 12–1 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 5–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Andera — primary (person)
• Aylward — primary (person)
• Baxter — primary (person)
• Blanc — primary (person)
• Carley — primary (person)
• Goodwin — primary (person)
• Greenfield — primary (person)
• Grove — primary (person)
• Howard — primary (person)
• Hulse — primary (person)
• Ismay — primary (person)
• Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
• Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
• Jordan — primary (person)
• Manhart — primary (person)
• Massie — primary (person)
• Moore — primary (person)
• Mulally — primary (person)
• Nelson — primary (person)
• Pischke — primary (person)
• Rice — primary (person)
• Schaefbauer — primary (person)
• Schwans — primary (person)
• Sjaarda — primary (person)
• Voight — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-14 First Reading Senate S.J. 14
• 2025-01-22 Referred to S.J. 72 referral-committee
• 2025-01-29 Scheduled for hearing
• 2025-01-29 State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 4 committee-passage
• 2025-01-30 Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 135
• 2025-02-03 Senate Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 154 Amendment 68D amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-02-03 Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 3 S.J. 156
• 2025-02-04 First read in House and referred to H.J. 185 introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-03 Scheduled for hearing
• 2025-03-03 State Affairs Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 68F amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-03 State Affairs Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 1
• 2025-03-06 House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 63, NAYS 6 H.J. 482
• 2025-03-11 Senate Failed to concur, appoint Conference Committee , Passed, S.J. 508
• 2025-03-11 House of Representatives Conference Committee appointments H.J. 522
• 2025-03-12 Motion to amend , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0 Amendment 68K amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-12 Conference Committee Report adopted , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0
• 2025-03-12 House of Representatives Conference Committee Report adopted , Passed, YEAS 66, NAYS 4 H.J. 537
• 2025-03-12 Senate Conference Committee Report adopted , Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 2 S.J. 523
• 2025-03-13 Signed by the President S.J. 528 passage
• 2025-03-13 Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-13 S.J. 533 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-13 Signed by the Speaker H.J. 548 passage
• 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/3d0b7898-725e-488a-a5ba-7ed99c9a5e55. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).