---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise certain provisions regarding hospital liens."
description: "revise certain provisions regarding hospital liens."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 70"
citation: "South Dakota SB 70 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care", "Health Insurance", "Liens"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson", "Bolin", "Cronin", "Cwach", "Dennert", "DiSanto", "Duba", "Foster", "Goodwin", "Greenfield (Lana)", "Heinert", "Howard", "Jensen (Kevin)", "Jensen (Phil)", "Johns", "Maher", "Marty", "Monroe", "Mulally", "Nelson", "Otten (Herman)", "Partridge", "Pischke", "Randolph", "Rounds", "Rusch", "Russell", "Schoenbeck", "Smith (Jamie)", "Weis", "Wiik", "Wismer"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11e0d622-53e2-49f8-9cfe-bad51a6c6d4c"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=70&Session=2019"
source_hash: "555536c1505b74bcd3575069dc2d5d1f009cdfe09841be34e231096ced621e63"
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 70 (2019) — revise certain provisions regarding hospital liens.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment 70ba** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Amendment.aspx?Amend=amd70ba.htm)
2. **Amendment 70wa** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Amendment.aspx?Amend=amd70wa.htm)
3. **House Judiciary** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB70HJU.htm&Session=2019&Version=House Judiciary&Bill=70)
4. **Printed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB70P.htm&Session=2019&Version=Printed&Bill=70)
5. **Senate Health and Human Services** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB70SHE.htm&Session=2019&Version=Senate Health and Human Services&Bill=70)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB70ENR.htm&Session=2019&Version=Enrolled&Bill=70)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2019SB 163, SB 70 — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Concurred in amendments - 2019 — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2019SB 85, SB 121, SB 70 — **68–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Anderson — primary (person)
- Bolin — primary (person)
- Cronin — primary (person)
- Cwach — primary (person)
- Dennert — primary (person)
- DiSanto — primary (person)
- Duba — primary (person)
- Foster — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Greenfield (Lana) — primary (person)
- Heinert — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
- Johns — primary (person)
- Maher — primary (person)
- Marty — primary (person)
- Monroe — primary (person)
- Mulally — primary (person)
- Nelson — primary (person)
- Otten (Herman) — primary (person)
- Partridge — primary (person)
- Pischke — primary (person)
- Randolph — primary (person)
- Rounds — primary (person)
- Rusch — primary (person)
- Russell — primary (person)
- Schoenbeck — primary (person)
- Smith (Jamie) — primary (person)
- Weis — primary (person)
- Wiik — primary (person)
- Wismer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Health and Human Services S.J. 155 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-02-08** Health and Human Services Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 70ba `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-08** Health and Human Services Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0. S.J. 310 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-08** Placed on consent, Passed
- **2019-02-12** Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0. S.J. 351 `passage`
- **2019-02-13** First read in House and referred to House Judiciary H.J. 392 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-25** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-02-25** Judiciary Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 70wa `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-25** Judiciary Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0. H.J. 516 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-25** Placed on consent, Passed
- **2019-02-27** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 0. H.J. 569 `passage`
- **2019-03-04** Senate Concurred in amendments, Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 0. S.J. 589
- **2019-03-05** Signed by the President S.J. 618
- **2019-03-06** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 670
- **2019-03-07** Delivered to the Governor on March 07, 2019 S.J. 642 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-29** Signed by the Governor on March 13, 2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/11e0d622-53e2-49f8-9cfe-bad51a6c6d4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).