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+type: "Bill"
+title: "establish a criminal background check requirement for licensure as an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant."
+description: "establish a criminal background check requirement for licensure as an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
+legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 40"
+citation: "South Dakota SB 40 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Boards and Commissions", "Criminal Background Investigation", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Health Care", "Licensure", "Professions and Occupations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2024-01-09"
+last_action: "2024-02-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/585d7dd7-9fd7-468a-82ef-064cabe2ef77"
+source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24719"
+source_hash: "20ee2f7ed303e2619b98811a1365cc50d8bc251ea3af283cf6827d087d8124dc"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-sd"]
+---
+
+# South Dakota SB 40 (2024) — establish a criminal background check requirement for licensure as an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24719/258079)
+2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24719/265333)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Pass — **70–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **11–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Health and Human Services — primary (organization)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-09** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 19 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-19** Scheduled for hearing
+- **2024-01-22** Scheduled for hearing
+- **2024-01-22** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
+- **2024-01-22** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
+- **2024-01-23** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 0 S.J. 149 `passage`
+- **2024-01-24** First read in House and referred to H.J. 165 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-08** Scheduled for hearing
+- **2024-02-08** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0 H.J. 5 `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-08** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, H.J. 5
+- **2024-02-12** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 70, NAYS 0 H.J. 305 `passage`
+- **2024-02-13** Signed by the President S.J. 315 `passage`
+- **2024-02-14** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 337 `passage`
+- **2024-02-15** Delivered to the Governor on 2024-02-15 S.J. 341 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-02-21** Signed by the Governor on 2024-02-21 S.J. 370 `executive-signature, executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/585d7dd7-9fd7-468a-82ef-064cabe2ef77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).
+