---
type: "Bill"
title: "provide certain exceptions from alcoholic beverage provisions regarding events conducted by certain civic, charitable, educational, fraternal, or veterans organizations."
description: "provide certain exceptions from alcoholic beverage provisions regarding events conducted by certain civic, charitable, educational, fraternal, or veterans organizations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 178"
citation: "South Dakota SB 178 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverages", "Licensing"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barthel", "Cronin", "Duvall", "Haverly", "Holmes", "Johnson", "Kaiser", "Kettwig", "Otten (Ernie)", "Otten (Herman)", "Peters", "Reed", "Ring", "Rusch", "Smith", "Soholt", "Solano", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54ad2d18-ea61-4ffb-9b8f-c62a5d9cfa4d"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=178&Session=2018"
source_hash: "ec868e99d3ed63b92ea37a674be35850ea6f8049bb46099e0292ec8758a38530"
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 178 (2018) — provide certain exceptions from alcoholic beverage provisions regarding events conducted by certain civic, charitable, educational, fraternal, or veterans organizations.

## Version chain

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

1. **House Commerce and Energy** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB178HCO.htm&Session=2018&Version=House Commerce and Energy&Bill=178)
2. **Printed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB178P.htm&Session=2018&Version=Printed&Bill=178)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB178ENR.htm&Session=2018&Version=Enrolled&Bill=178)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2018 — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
- Do Pass Amended - 2018 — **58–9** (pass) · legislature
- Concurred in amendments - 2018 — **32–0** (pass) · legislature
- Do Pass - 2018 — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
- Do Pass Amended - 2018 — **8–5** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Barthel — primary (person)
- Cronin — primary (person)
- Duvall — primary (person)
- Haverly — primary (person)
- Holmes — primary (person)
- Johnson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kettwig — primary (person)
- Otten (Ernie) — primary (person)
- Otten (Herman) — primary (person)
- Peters — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Ring — primary (person)
- Rusch — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Soholt — primary (person)
- Solano — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-31** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Commerce and Energy S.J. 292 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Scheduled for hearing
- **2018-02-15** Commerce and Energy Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0. S.J. 477 `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-20** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 500
- **2018-02-21** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 0. S.J. 533 `passage`
- **2018-02-22** First read in House and referred to House Commerce and Energy H.J. 552 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Scheduled for hearing
- **2018-02-26** Commerce and Energy Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 178db `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Commerce and Energy Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 5. H.J. 596 `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 58, NAYS 9. H.J. 649 `passage`
- **2018-03-05** Senate Concurred in amendments, Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 0. S.J. 688
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President S.J. 749
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 760
- **2018-03-09** Delivered to the Governor on March 09, 2018 S.J. 776 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-26** Signed by the Governor on March 22, 2018 S.J. 793 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/54ad2d18-ea61-4ffb-9b8f-c62a5d9cfa4d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).