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HB1225 • 2026

enhance the future of education in South Dakota.

enhance the future of education in South Dakota.

Education
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Sponsor
Emery
Last action
2026-02-23
Official status
Tabled
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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enhance the future of education in South Dakota.

enhance the future of education in South Dakota.

What This Bill Does

  • enhance the future of education in South Dakota.
  • Official keyword topics: Education Hoghouse-Vehicle Bill Official sponsor note: Representatives <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4749/Detail">Emery</a> (prime), <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4759/Detail">Healy</a>, <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4791/Detail">Muckey</a>, and <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4834/Detail">Wittman</a> and Senator <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4781/Detail">Larson</a>

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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1225A

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Filed

Plain English: 1225A 101st Legislative Session 1225 2026 South Dakota Legislature House Bill 1225 Introduced by: Representative Healy This bill has been extensively amended (hoghoused) and may no longer be consistent with the original intention of the sponsor.

  • 1225A 101st Legislative Session 1225 2026 South Dakota Legislature House Bill 1225 Introduced by: Representative Healy This bill has been extensively amended (hoghoused) and may no longer be consistent with the original intention of the sponsor.
  • Underscores indicate new language.
  • Overstrikes indicate deleted language.
  • AMENDMENT 1225A FOR THE INTRODUCED BILL An Act to enhance the future of education in South Dakota transfer the Office of 1 Indian Education to the Department of Education.

Bill History

  1. 2026-02-23 House State Affairs

    Scheduled for hearing

  2. 2026-02-23 House State Affairs

    Tabled

  3. 2026-02-18 House of Representatives

    Prime Sponsor Changed at the Request of the Prime Sponsor

  4. 2026-01-29 House of Representatives

    First read in House and referred to House State Affairs

Official Summary Text

enhance the future of education in South Dakota.
Official keyword topics:
Education
Hoghouse-Vehicle Bill
Official sponsor note: Representatives <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4749/Detail">Emery</a> (prime), <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4759/Detail">Healy</a>, <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4791/Detail">Muckey</a>, and <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4834/Detail">Wittman</a> and Senator <a rel="noopener" href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/4781/Detail">Larson</a>

Current Bill Text

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26.949.9 101st Legislative Session 1225

2026 South Dakota Legislature
House Bill 1225

Introduced by: Representative Healy

Underscores indicate new language.
Overstrikes indicate deleted language.
An Act to enhance the future of education in South Dakota. 1
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA: 2
Section 1. The Legislature shall enhance the future of education in South Dakota. 3