---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise certain provisions relating to the circulation of a petition for an initiated measure."
description: "revise certain provisions relating to the circulation of a petition for an initiated measure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1177"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1177 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Initiative and Referendum", "Legislature and Statutes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ahlers", "Bartling", "Campbell", "Dennert", "DiSanto", "Goodwin", "Hawley", "Kaiser", "May", "Monroe", "Pischke", "Russell", "Smith", "Wiese"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-01-24"
last_action: "2018-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c03d7e07-e843-42d6-a225-cf0dda662e47"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=1177&Session=2018"
source_hash: "cdc15b4631c326f5ddee96657216daff2427a801d78653c2907dd8eb580b77e8"
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 HB 1177 (2018) — revise certain provisions relating to the circulation of a petition for an initiated measure.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **House State Affairs** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1177HST.htm&Session=2018&Version=House State Affairs&Bill=1177)
2. **Printed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1177P.htm&Session=2018&Version=Printed&Bill=1177)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1177ENR.htm&Session=2018&Version=Enrolled&Bill=1177)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2018 — **6–2** (pass) · legislature
- Do Pass Amended - 2018 — **56–11** (pass) · legislature
- Do Pass Amended - 2018 — **9–3** (pass) · legislature
- Do Pass Amended - 2018 — **18–15** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ahlers — primary (person)
- Bartling — primary (person)
- Campbell — primary (person)
- Dennert — primary (person)
- DiSanto — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Hawley — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- May — primary (person)
- Monroe — primary (person)
- Pischke — primary (person)
- Russell — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Wiese — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-24** First read in House and referred to House State Affairs H.J. 179 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-02** Scheduled for hearing
- **2018-02-02** State Affairs Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 1177ka `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-02** State Affairs Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 3. H.J. 307 `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-06** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 362
- **2018-02-07** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 56, NAYS 11. H.J. 376 `passage`
- **2018-02-08** First read in Senate and referred to Senate State Affairs S.J. 419 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** Scheduled for hearing
- **2018-02-28** State Affairs Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 2. S.J. 652 `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-05** Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 18, NAYS 15. S.J. 699 `passage`
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 737
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the President S.J. 759
- **2018-03-08** Delivered to the Governor on 2:50 p.m., March 8, 2018. H.J. 747 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-26** Signed by the Governor on March 23, 2018 H.J. 796 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c03d7e07-e843-42d6-a225-cf0dda662e47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).