---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise certain provisions regarding criminal background checks for assistant behavior analysts and paraprofessionals."
description: "revise certain provisions regarding criminal background checks for assistant behavior analysts and paraprofessionals."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 31"
citation: "South Dakota SB 31 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Background Checks", "Professions and Occupations", "Public Officers and Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-02-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99cb9a12-2f4f-41b4-9aeb-52ef02a0b1bf"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=31&Session=2019"
source_hash: "b2a9f4c44ecb7279629d97ca2f1aea091e942297b80d2b1a6fe79bcf34e45163"
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 31 (2019) — revise certain provisions regarding criminal background checks for assistant behavior analysts and paraprofessionals.

## 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=SB31P.htm&Session=2019&Version=Printed&Bill=31)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB31ENR.htm&Session=2019&Version=Enrolled&Bill=31)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2019 — **64–6** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2019SB 25, SB 30, SB 31 — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2019 — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2019 — **8–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Health and Human Services — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Health and Human Services S.J. 27 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-01-16** Health and Human Services Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0. S.J. 102 `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-16** Placed on consent, Passed
- **2019-01-17** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0. S.J. 123 `passage`
- **2019-01-22** First read in House and referred to House Judiciary H.J. 147 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-01-28** Judiciary Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 5. H.J. 216 `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-29** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 241
- **2019-01-30** House of Representatives Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 64, NAYS 6. H.J. 272 `passage`
- **2019-01-31** Signed by the President S.J. 256
- **2019-02-05** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 301
- **2019-02-06** Delivered to the Governor on February 06, 2019 S.J. 278 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-11** Signed by the Governor on February 8, 2019 S.J. 326 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/99cb9a12-2f4f-41b4-9aeb-52ef02a0b1bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).