---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise visitation rights of a person causing conception by rape or incest."
description: "revise visitation rights of a person causing conception by rape or incest."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 143"
citation: "South Dakota SB 143 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts and Judiciary", "Domestic Relations", "Minors"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennert", "Frye-Mueller", "Goodwin", "Nelson", "Pischke"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-28"
last_action: "2019-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47579416-703f-40cf-890d-d6490ea8c283"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=143&Session=2019"
source_hash: "e4d8de5be060e27a6d8da78d15500e755bd62b4ba3a5853518e41aac797d2f16"
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 143 (2019) — revise visitation rights of a person causing conception by rape or incest.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment 143ka** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Amendment.aspx?Amend=amd143ka.htm)
2. **Printed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB143P.htm&Session=2019&Version=Printed&Bill=143)
3. **Senate Judiciary** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB143SJU.htm&Session=2019&Version=Senate Judiciary&Bill=143)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB143ENR.htm&Session=2019&Version=Enrolled&Bill=143)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2019 — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2019SB 18, SB 45, SB 90, SB 75, SB 76, SB 77, SB 143 — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dennert — primary (person)
- Frye-Mueller — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Nelson — primary (person)
- Pischke — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-28** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Judiciary S.J. 199 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-02-07** Judiciary Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 143ka `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-07** Judiciary Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0. S.J. 299 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-11** Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0. S.J. 333 `passage`
- **2019-02-12** First read in House and referred to House Judiciary H.J. 372 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-25** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-02-25** Judiciary Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0. H.J. 516 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-25** Placed on consent, Passed
- **2019-02-26** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 69, NAYS 0. H.J. 553 `passage`
- **2019-02-28** Signed by the President S.J. 556
- **2019-03-04** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 622
- **2019-03-05** Delivered to the Governor on March 05, 2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-11** Signed by the Governor on March 11, 2019 S.J. 678 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47579416-703f-40cf-890d-d6490ea8c283`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).