Votes at a glance: Key bills considered Feb. 25 in the South Dakota House

Below are the principal roll-call outcomes from the South Dakota House on Feb. 25. Each entry lists the bill number, a one-line description, the final vote tally recorded in the House journal and a short note on what the bill would do or why the vote mattered.

House Bill 10 83 — Agricultural processors lien modernization: Passed, ayes 70. Summary: Updates lien-filing processes for harvesters and moves filing to the Secretary of State’s updated site (effective 2027). Noted as noncontroversial on the floor.

House Bill 10 16 — Pharmacy licensure and fees (includes allowance for school epi pens): Passed, ayes 69, nays 1 (required two-thirds; received it). Summary: Modernizes pharmacy licensing language and raises certain wholesaler fees; includes statutory authority for schools to keep stock epinephrine for emergencies.

House Bill 10 85 — Moratorium on CO2 pipeline construction: Passed, ayes 40, nays 30. Summary: Temporary pause on CO2 pipeline construction pending final federal safety rulemaking (PHMSA); floor debate focused on safety risks and economic consequences.

House Bill 11 14 — Equipment appropriation for technical colleges (as amended): Passed, ayes 47, nays 22 (two-thirds required and received). Summary: Appropriation to help purchase equipment for four technical colleges; amended on floor to $100 for procedural passage with intended further negotiation.

House Bill 11 15 — Aggravated criminal entry for theft of firearms/silencers: Passed, ayes 56, nays 14. Summary: Creates a class 5 felony for entering a motor vehicle to take a firearm or silencer and renders offenders ineligible for presumptive probation.

House Bill 11 31 — Capitol restoration appropriation: Passed, ayes 62, nays 8 (two-thirds required and received). Summary: Funds to support restoration, maintenance and repair of the state capitol building; carried as a one-time appropriation.

House Bill 12 35 — Limit on annual property-tax revenue increases: Passed, ayes 39, nays 31. Summary: Lowers the allowed annual revenue increase from 3% to 2.5% (or inflation, whichever is less); school capital outlay and special-ed levies excluded.

House Bill 12 49 — Protections against deceptive easement acquisition: Passed, ayes 36, nays 34. Summary: Creates a statutory civil remedy for landowners alleging deception, harassment or intimidation during easement negotiations; limited in committee to carbon oxide facilities.

House Bill 12 42 — Limit on transfers from federal candidate committees to in-state campaigns: Passed, ayes 36, nays 34. Summary: Caps transfers from federal authorized candidate committees to in-state candidate committees at $10,000 to reduce outsized federal money influence in state races.

House Bill 10 05 — Remove private-home-study payment requirement for DSS: Passed, ayes 70. Summary: Adjusts how private home-study (home study) payments are handled by the Department of Social Services; amendment clarified fair-market fees.

House Bill 10 37 — Repeal tax collection allowance (electronic filing credit): Passed, ayes 63, nays 7. Summary: Temporarily reduces or removes electronic filing credit allowances, with a sunset, to capture general-fund savings; amendment added a sunset.

House Bill 10 39 — National board certification reimbursements for teachers/counselors: Passed, ayes 66, nays 4. Summary: Ensures reimbursements for teachers and school counselors who have already earned national board certification remain payable even as the program sunsets for new applicants.

House Bill 11 86 — Revision/repeal of employer contributions to Future Fund: Failed, ayes 32, nays 38. Summary: Controversial proposal to halt employer contributions to state ‘future funds’; critics argued it would hamper economic-development flexibility.

House Bill 10 13 — Increase in weights-and-measures inspection fees: Failed (two-thirds required but not received), ayes 31, nays 39. Summary: Would have increased biennial inspection fees to better align program cost recovery with revenue; failed to reach required threshold.

House Bill 10 38 — Repeal small state burial stipends for veterans: Failed, ayes 2, nays 68. Summary: Proposal to end a small burial benefit for certain veterans was overwhelmingly rejected by the House.

House Bill 10 40 — Reduce state contribution to subsidized high-school dual-credit program: Passed, ayes 56, nays 14. Summary: Reduces the state subsidy share for dual-credit college courses offered to high-school juniors and seniors; sponsors said projected savings would help the budget.

House Bill 12 28 — Require PUC-prepared EIS for CO2 transmission permitting: Failed (two-thirds required), ayes 37, nays 32. Summary: The bill would have mandated a state environmental-impact statement before PUC permits for CO2 pipelines; it failed to clear the higher threshold tied to a fiscal mechanic in the bill.

House Bill 11 35 — Reciprocity/vehicle bill: Passed, ayes 53, nays 15. Summary: One of several technical/vehicle bills taken up to keep House and Senate calendars aligned.

House Bill 11 49 and House Bill 11 50 — Deferred/tabled by voice votes. Summary: Both motions to table carried by large margins, effectively postponing House action pending further work.

Notes: Vote tallies and final outcomes are drawn from the House floor record for Feb. 25. Several bills required two-thirds because they affected continuously appropriated funds or contained appropriations; procedural amendments and floor changes were noted in the House Journal.