---
type: "Bill"
title: "authorize the Transportation Commission to promulgate rules to allow certain motor vehicles to follow another motor vehicle on a state highway more closely than otherwise permitted by law."
description: "authorize the Transportation Commission to promulgate rules to allow certain motor vehicles to follow another motor vehicle on a state highway more closely than otherwise permitted by law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1068"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1068 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Rules", "Highways and Bridges", "Motor Vehicles", "Public Health and Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blare", "Chase", "Duvall", "Ewing", "Finck", "Lesmeister", "Monroe", "Nesiba", "Novstrup", "Peterson (Kent)", "Qualm", "Schoenbeck", "Schoenfish", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55f4e099-0f5c-4136-b798-e66af6855167"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=1068&Session=2019"
source_hash: "c946528d3d5e3c9356ac95504c1ba2c0999ef42859026b1488be92e93a921dfe"
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 1068 (2019) — authorize the Transportation Commission to promulgate rules to allow certain motor vehicles to follow another motor vehicle on a state highway more closely than otherwise permitted by law.

## Version chain

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

1. **Printed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1068P.htm&Session=2019&Version=Printed&Bill=1068)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1068ENR.htm&Session=2019&Version=Enrolled&Bill=1068)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2019 — **56–12** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2019HB 1059, HB 1068, HB 1072, HB 1077, HB 1124, HB 1092, SB 124 — **29–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2019 — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2019 — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blare — primary (person)
- Chase — primary (person)
- Duvall — primary (person)
- Ewing — primary (person)
- Finck — primary (person)
- Lesmeister — primary (person)
- Monroe — primary (person)
- Nesiba — primary (person)
- Novstrup — primary (person)
- Peterson (Kent) — primary (person)
- Qualm — primary (person)
- Schoenbeck — primary (person)
- Schoenfish — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** First read in House and referred to House Transportation H.J. 159 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-01-31** Transportation Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0. H.J. 278 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-05** House of Representatives Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 56, NAYS 12. H.J. 299 `passage`
- **2019-02-06** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Transportation S.J. 280 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-02-13** Transportation Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 0. S.J. 362 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-13** Placed on consent, Passed
- **2019-02-14** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 29, NAYS 0. S.J. 389 `passage`
- **2019-02-19** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 443
- **2019-02-26** Signed by the President S.J. 527
- **2019-02-27** Delivered to the Governor on February 27, 2019 H.J. 562 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-04** Signed by the Governor on March 1, 2019 H.J. 596 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55f4e099-0f5c-4136-b798-e66af6855167`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).