---
type: "Bill"
title: "regulate the use of care and maintenance funds by perpetual care cemeteries."
description: "regulate the use of care and maintenance funds by perpetual care cemeteries."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 54"
citation: "South Dakota SB 54 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Consumer Protection", "Property", "Trade Regulation", "Trusts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barthel", "Cammack", "Chase", "Duvall", "Glanzer", "Kolbeck", "Lake", "McCleerey", "Otten (Ernie)", "Partridge", "Peterson (Kent)", "Stalzer", "White", "York"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5540265d-c43f-4ee0-a6f4-b5d9531b2c6e"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=54&Session=2019"
source_hash: "1a5d81dd54518f3cf40aa9dbe88804e66d454668db06e4b478eccbf127bf49d0"
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 54 (2019) — regulate the use of care and maintenance funds by perpetual care cemeteries.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment 54ja** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Amendment.aspx?Amend=amd54ja.htm)
2. **Printed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB54P.htm&Session=2019&Version=Printed&Bill=54)
3. **Senate Judiciary** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB54SJU.htm&Session=2019&Version=Senate Judiciary&Bill=54)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB54ENR.htm&Session=2019&Version=Enrolled&Bill=54)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended - 2019HB 1024, SB 54, SB 63, SB 154 — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **64–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2019 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barthel — primary (person)
- Cammack — primary (person)
- Chase — primary (person)
- Duvall — primary (person)
- Glanzer — primary (person)
- Kolbeck — primary (person)
- Lake — primary (person)
- McCleerey — primary (person)
- Otten (Ernie) — primary (person)
- Partridge — primary (person)
- Peterson (Kent) — primary (person)
- Stalzer — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- York — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Judiciary S.J. 121 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-01-31** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-01-31** Judiciary Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 54ja `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-01-31** Judiciary Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0. S.J. 245 `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-31** Placed on consent, Passed
- **2019-02-06** Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 0. S.J. 281 `passage`
- **2019-02-07** First read in House and referred to House Judiciary H.J. 328 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-03-04** Judiciary Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0. H.J. 598 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-04** Placed on consent, Passed
- **2019-03-05** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 64, NAYS 0. H.J. 633 `passage`
- **2019-03-06** Signed by the President S.J. 637
- **2019-03-07** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 701
- **2019-03-11** Delivered to the Governor on March 11, 2019 S.J. 672 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-29** Signed by the Governor on March 20, 2019 S.J. 732 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5540265d-c43f-4ee0-a6f4-b5d9531b2c6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).