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Votes at a glance: bills passed on the House floor March 3, 2025
Summary
Several bills were approved or concurred in by the South Dakota House on March 3, 2025. Below are items with final outcomes recorded on the floor, including fee‑setting changes for multiple professional licensing boards and formal concurrence actions.
The House recorded final passage, concurrence or other formal actions on multiple bills during its March 3, 2025 session. Many items were taken as consent calendar bills or were advanced after brief floor remarks. Listed below are the bills and outcomes recorded in the House journal or on the floor during the session.
Votes listed below reflect counts recorded on the House floor where available in the transcript; where a numeric tally was not provided in the transcript excerpt, the vote is recorded as “not specified”.
- House Bill 10 71 (concurrence in Senate amendments): Motion to concur was made by Representative Mulder; the House motion was carried and concurrence declared. (Vote: not specified on transcript; motion carried on the floor.)
- Consent calendar items (multiple bills reported): Consent calendar final passage was recorded; the clerk reported 70 ayes when consent items were displayed.
- Senate Bill 24 (plumbing commission fee authority): Passed; clerk reported 54 ayes, 16 nays. Sponsors said the commission is self‑funded and needs authority via rulemaking to raise fees for a new online database and to maintain inspector staffing.
- Senate Bill 27 (cosmetology, aesthetics and nail technology fee caps): Passed; clerk reported 58 ayes, 12 nays. Supporters said fee caps had not been adjusted since 2007 and increases would fund inspectors and modernization.
- Senate Bill 31 (electrical inspection fee increases): Passed; clerk announced 55 ayes (nays not specified in transcript excerpt). Sponsors described the bill as enabling the self‑funded Electrical Commission to raise fees under administrative rulemaking to hire inspectors and acquire an online permitting database.
- Additional items: The journal and speaker reports show a number of bills and resolutions were returned from the Senate, approved by the House, or signed by the Speaker during the session (for example, House bills 1094, 1190 series and House Joint Resolution 5001 were noted as passed or transmitted). The speaker signed multiple bills as part of the open session record; those items were recorded without extended floor debate in the excerpt.
This summary lists bills with final actions on the House floor during the March 3 session and provides recorded vote counts when available in the transcript.
