This bill expands South Dakota's unpaid repair bill process to cover more types of vehicles beyond just motor vehicles—now including boats, mopeds, motorcycles, off-road vehicles, snowmobiles, and trailers. A repair shop or property owner holding one of these unclaimed vehicles can now apply for a title after sending written notice to the owner and waiting 30 days, the same process that already existed for regular cars. The bill essentially gives the same legal path to ownership for a wider range of vehicles when owners abandon them without paying repair bills.
The enrollment process made minor technical corrections to standardized language—replacing "shall" with "must," fixing hyphenation of "off-road," and removing redundant references to "motor" when the law already covers multiple vehicle types—without substantively changing the bill's purpose of including boats, mopeds, motorcycles, off-road vehicles, snowmobiles, and trailers in the unpaid repair bill titling process.
Signed by the Governor S.J. 266
Delivered to the Governor S.J. 219
Signed by the Speaker H.J. 251
Signed by the President S.J. 203
House of Representatives Do Pass Passed, YEAS 69, NAYS 0. H.J. 223
Transportation Certified uncontested, placed on consent H.J. 11
Transportation Do Pass Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0. H.J. 11
Transportation Scheduled for hearing
House of Representatives Referred to House Transportation H.J. 114
First Reading House H.J. 105
Senate Do Pass Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 0. S.J. 67
Transportation Certified uncontested, placed on consent S.J. 1
Transportation Do Pass Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 0. S.J. 1
Transportation Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
First read in Senate and referred to Senate Transportation S.J. 17
Do Pass
Transportation — Do Pass
Do Pass
Transportation — Do Pass