---
type: "Bill"
title: "provide for the payment of claims for covered services provided by a health care professional via telehealth."
description: "provide for the payment of claims for covered services provided by a health care professional via telehealth."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 137"
citation: "South Dakota SB 137 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care", "Health Insurance", "Professions and Occupations", "Public Health and Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chase", "Curd", "Diedrich", "Duba", "Duvall", "Ewing", "Glanzer", "Heinert", "Hunhoff", "Jensen (Kevin)", "Johnson (David)", "Kennedy", "Lake", "Maher", "McCleerey", "Nesiba", "Partridge", "Peterson (Kent)", "Reed", "Ring", "Russell", "Schoenfish", "Soholt", "Solano", "Stalzer", "White", "Wismer", "York"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-25"
last_action: "2019-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df0f9b2d-e1d0-47f1-9e13-f8cce44a7af7"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=137&Session=2019"
source_hash: "1067740af895fe7c41157ee400a9376d5c98bbe8d41d031a4c792f596856457a"
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 137 (2019) — provide for the payment of claims for covered services provided by a health care professional via telehealth.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment 137bb** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Amendment.aspx?Amend=amd137bb.htm)
2. **Amendment 137ka** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Amendment.aspx?Amend=amd137ka.htm)
3. **House Health and Human Services** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB137HHE.htm&Session=2019&Version=House Health and Human Services&Bill=137)
4. **Printed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB137P.htm&Session=2019&Version=Printed&Bill=137)
5. **Senate Health and Human Services** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB137SHE.htm&Session=2019&Version=Senate Health and Human Services&Bill=137)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB137ENR.htm&Session=2019&Version=Enrolled&Bill=137)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Referred to - 2019 — **10–2** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Concurred in amendments - 2019 — **29–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **29–4** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended - 2019SB 136, SB 137 — **64–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chase — primary (person)
- Curd — primary (person)
- Diedrich — primary (person)
- Duba — primary (person)
- Duvall — primary (person)
- Ewing — primary (person)
- Glanzer — primary (person)
- Heinert — primary (person)
- Hunhoff — primary (person)
- Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
- Johnson (David) — primary (person)
- Kennedy — primary (person)
- Lake — primary (person)
- Maher — primary (person)
- McCleerey — primary (person)
- Nesiba — primary (person)
- Partridge — primary (person)
- Peterson (Kent) — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Ring — primary (person)
- Russell — primary (person)
- Schoenfish — primary (person)
- Soholt — primary (person)
- Solano — primary (person)
- Stalzer — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- Wismer — primary (person)
- York — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-25** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Health and Human Services S.J. 189 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-01-30** Health and Human Services Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 137ka `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-01-30** Health and Human Services Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0. S.J. 221 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-05** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 266
- **2019-02-06** Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 29, NAYS 4. S.J. 286 `passage`
- **2019-02-07** First read in House and referred to House Commerce and Energy H.J. 329 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-25** Referred to House Health and Human Services, Passed, YEAS 10, NAYS 2. H.J. 516 `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-25** Referred to House Health and Human Services, Passed H.J. 517 `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-03-05** Health and Human Services Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 137bb `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-05** Health and Human Services Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0. H.J. 627 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-05** Placed on consent, Passed
- **2019-03-07** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 64, NAYS 1. H.J. 680 `passage`
- **2019-03-11** Senate Concurred in amendments, Passed, YEAS 29, NAYS 1. S.J. 680
- **2019-03-11** Signed by the President S.J. 685
- **2019-03-12** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 747
- **2019-03-12** Delivered to the Governor on March 12, 2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-29** Signed by the Governor on March 27, 2019 S.J. 733 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df0f9b2d-e1d0-47f1-9e13-f8cce44a7af7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).