THE POLICY LANDSCAPE
Rights, restrictions & the places between.
SD HB1260 (2025)
Require that birth certificates and certain official documents reflect biological sex.
Anti-LGBTQ+
- Jurisdiction
- South Dakota
- Session
- 2025 Regular Session
- Stage reported
- Introduced Session adjourned
- First recorded action
- Latest action
- : House of Representatives Reconsidered, Failed, YEAS 34, NAYS 36. H.J. 342
- Record retrieved
Bill types
As labelled in the project's tracker.
Birth Certificate or Identification Change BanGender Marker Change Ban
Links
- As introduced (PDF, hosted here)
- LegiScan record(opens another site)
- Official legislature page(opens another site)
- Introduced text (Feb 5, 2025) at mylrc.sdlegislature.gov(opens another site)PDF, external
- Comm Sub text (Feb 13, 2025) at mylrc.sdlegislature.gov(opens another site)PDF, external
- Bill page on this site
Recorded actions
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| House | First Reading House H.J. 199 | |
| House | Referred to House State Affairs H.J. 213 | |
| House | Scheduled for hearing | |
| House | State Affairs Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 1260A | |
| House | State Affairs Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 4. | |
| House | House of Representatives Motion to amend, Passed H.J. 329 Amendment 1260B | |
| House | House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Failed, YEAS 35, NAYS 35. H.J. 330 | |
| House | Intent to reconsider H.J. 330 | |
| House | House of Representatives Reconsidered, Failed, YEAS 34, NAYS 36. H.J. 342 |
Legislative status and legal enforcement are different. See the policy areas and the court sources they cite for enforcement.
Bill data and text from LegiScan (legiscan.com), licensed CC BY 4.0 and used in modified form. LegiScan does not endorse the Trans Data Initiative. Used here in modified form.