republic-os/legislation/us/states/sd/2025/sb-70.md

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Bill	modify the maximum sparsity benefit a sparse school district is eligible to receive.	modify the maximum sparsity benefit a sparse school district is eligible to receive.	us/states/sd	South Dakota Legislature	2025	SB 70	South Dakota SB 70 (2025)	bill	Education State Aid to Education	enacted	Auch Emery Foster Grove Hunt Ismay Jensen (Phil) Larson Marty May Muckey Perry Pischke Rice	5	21	6	2025-01-15	2025-03-31	openstates	ocd-bill/0b70c00b-1611-4098-926e-b242d48f6eb1	https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25660	dda510879d52fccb702aaf0299a8eab2d893ef7ce8498396669a6e0f488b62c7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-sd

South Dakota SB 70 (2025) — modify the maximum sparsity benefit a sparse school district is eligible to receive.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. 70B (committee substitute) — source
3. 70C (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Appropriations Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do Pass Amended — 5–3 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Referred to — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass Amended — 69–0 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass Amended — 27–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Auch — primary (person)
• Emery — primary (person)
• Foster — primary (person)
• Grove — primary (person)
• Hunt — primary (person)
• Ismay — primary (person)
• Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
• Larson — primary (person)
• Marty — primary (person)
• May — primary (person)
• Muckey — primary (person)
• Perry — primary (person)
• Pischke — primary (person)
• Rice — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-15 First Reading Senate S.J. 31
• 2025-01-17 Referred to S.J. 58 referral-committee
• 2025-01-28 Scheduled for hearing
• 2025-01-28 Education Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 1 S.J. 3 committee-passage
• 2025-01-29 Referred to , Passed, S.J. 126 referral-committee
• 2025-02-10 Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
• 2025-02-20 Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
• 2025-02-20 Committee on Appropriations Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 10 Amendment 70B amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-02-20 Committee on Appropriations Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 11 Amendment 70C amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-02-20 Committee on Appropriations Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 3 S.J. 11
• 2025-02-24 Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 27, NAYS 8 S.J. 356
• 2025-02-25 First read in House and referred to H.J. 384 introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-05 Scheduled for hearing
• 2025-03-05 Referred to , Passed, YEAS 15, NAYS 0 referral-committee
• 2025-03-06 Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
• 2025-03-06 Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0 committee-passage
• 2025-03-10 House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 69, NAYS 0 H.J. 504
• 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. 538 executive-signature, executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0b70c00b-1611-4098-926e-b242d48f6eb1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).