Tracking of environmental & some “good government” bills – 2025.
We have only just started bill tracking for 2025, & we provide these links for now.
2025 Legislative Calendar
https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/documents/267376.pdf
2025 Bills List:
https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bills/70
Dakota Rural Action’s Bill Tracking Spread Sheet
DRA will do a much better job than us on good government bills and will likely get all the pollution prevention and climate change related bills., It may however miss some biodiversity and outdoor recreation bills that we will follow. It will likely review bills more frequently than us and their spread sheet presents in a better format. It is thus redundant for us to do bill tracking on bills that DRA is following. On these pages we will just try to alert folks to bills we especially care about or have read.
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The legislature starts on Tuesday the 14th of January, 2025 and ends March 13th, 2025 except for Veto Day on March 31st, 2025
All draft bills are due at the LRC on February 3rd. February 5th is the
last day for individuals to introduce bills. On February 25th, all not-appropriations bills must pass the house of origin.
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Environmental Bills 2025
House Environmental Bills
Senate Environmental Bills
– Bill would appropriate water for the proposed Western Dakota Regional Water System (WDRWS) in the amount of twenty thousand seven hundred and sixty-five acre-feet of unappropriated water from the Missouri River. Money was appropriated by legislature to study the WDRWS proposal in the past, but WDRWS is not yet built, nor is its’ construction funded. The Tribes Winter Doctrine Rights to the Missouri river are not yet litigated, so we don’t know extent of Tribes unappropriated water rights. We are studying the bill, but PHAS might oppose this bill once more is
learned about it.
in Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources on Tuesday 21st of January. Go to the bottom of our legislative page for e-mail addresses of Committee https://phas-wsd.org/sd-legislature/
Good Government Bills 2025
House Good Government Bills
House Joint Resolution 5003 https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25663 , Proposing and submitting to the voters at the next general election an amendment to the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, requiring a constitutional amendment receive an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the votes cast before the measure is enacted. Prairie Hills Audubon Society opposes this bill This was in House State Affairs Committee on Friday 1/17/25 – It passed on a party line vote, but was amended to 60% vote. As it was amended, it can’t go to House floor till Wednesday, January 22nd.
Senate Good Government Bills
SB 13 – https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25364, A bill to clarify the effective date of a measure initiated or referred within a political subdivision. – This cleans up vague language.
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