---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise qualifications for sanitary district trustees."
description: "revise qualifications for sanitary district trustees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 73"
citation: "South Dakota SB 73 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environmental Protection", "Trustees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Johns", "Schoenbeck"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a717615-3dc1-4dc2-8cfd-d3e8c520ef45"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=73&Session=2019"
source_hash: "516d69f6069cb31214a0a66760d2e71a7ceaeda020b627474db022ba3a4ec175"
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 73 (2019) — revise qualifications for sanitary district trustees.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment 73ya** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Amendment.aspx?Amend=amd73ya.htm)
2. **House** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB73H.htm&Session=2019&Version=House&Bill=73)
3. **House Local Government** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB73HLO.htm&Session=2019&Version=House Local Government&Bill=73)
4. **Printed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB73P.htm&Session=2019&Version=Printed&Bill=73)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB73ENR.htm&Session=2019&Version=Enrolled&Bill=73)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **10–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2019 — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2019 — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Concurred in amendments - 2019 — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **43–23** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Johns — primary (person)
- Schoenbeck — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Local Government S.J. 156 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-01-30** Local Government Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 1. S.J. 224 `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-31** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 248
- **2019-02-05** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 266
- **2019-02-06** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 0. S.J. 286 `passage`
- **2019-02-07** First read in House and referred to House Local Government H.J. 329 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-02-19** Local Government Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 73ya `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-19** Local Government Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 10, NAYS 3. H.J. 430 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-21** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 473
- **2019-02-22** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 486
- **2019-02-25** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 543
- **2019-02-26** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 557
- **2019-02-27** House of Representatives Motion to amend, Passed H.J. 573 Amendment 73yb
- **2019-02-27** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 43, NAYS 23. H.J. 574 `passage`
- **2019-03-04** Senate Concurred in amendments, Passed, YEAS 31, NAYS 0. S.J. 590
- **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/5a717615-3dc1-4dc2-8cfd-d3e8c520ef45`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).