republic-os/legislation/us/states/sd/2025/sb-78.md

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Bill	authorize a change in bullet diameter for use in taking certain animals.	authorize a change in bullet diameter for use in taking certain animals.	us/states/sd	South Dakota Legislature	2025	SB 78	South Dakota SB 78 (2025)	bill	Firearms Game Fish Parks and Forestry Hunting	enacted	Aylward Baxter Crabtree Deibert Gosch Grove Jensen (Kevin) Jensen (Phil) Jordan Kull Mehlhaff Mulally Nelson Overweg Perry Pischke Voight Voita	2	15	3	2025-01-17	2025-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/cbeb6762-ccbb-42ff-8530-33ba06a0620d	https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25917	ccc1e57b03633f42faf19ec2c2669004560d7489039c13a05cd9ceeca7b0296d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-sd

South Dakota SB 78 (2025) — authorize a change in bullet diameter for use in taking certain animals.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do Pass — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Aylward — primary (person)
• Baxter — primary (person)
• Crabtree — primary (person)
• Deibert — primary (person)
• Gosch — primary (person)
• Grove — primary (person)
• Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
• Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
• Jordan — primary (person)
• Kull — primary (person)
• Mehlhaff — primary (person)
• Mulally — primary (person)
• Nelson — primary (person)
• Overweg — primary (person)
• Perry — primary (person)
• Pischke — primary (person)
• Voight — primary (person)
• Voita — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-17 First Reading Senate S.J. 58
• 2025-01-21 Referred to S.J. 63 referral-committee
• 2025-01-28 Scheduled for hearing
• 2025-01-28 Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 committee-passage
• 2025-01-29 Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 129 passage
• 2025-01-30 First Reading House H.J. 159
• 2025-02-03 Referred to H.J. 172 referral-committee
• 2025-02-27 Scheduled for hearing
• 2025-02-27 Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 committee-passage
• 2025-02-27 Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
• 2025-03-03 House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 1 H.J. 436 passage
• 2025-03-04 Signed by the President S.J. 443 passage
• 2025-03-05 Signed by the Speaker H.J. 470 passage
• 2025-03-06 Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-06 S.J. 465 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/cbeb6762-ccbb-42ff-8530-33ba06a0620d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).