---
type: "Bill"
title: "allow a candidate for legislative or county office to be considered for nomination to statewide office."
description: "allow a candidate for legislative or county office to be considered for nomination to statewide office."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 76"
citation: "South Dakota SB 76 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Political Party"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bolin", "Rounds"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95b9806d-2919-43ee-99e8-4f37bf5d9a47"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=76&Session=2019"
source_hash: "0315ae43cecdd95848f111c100b844d99e80a7df407ccca39bbd84f9186e2a9b"
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 76 (2019) — allow a candidate for legislative or county office to be considered for nomination to statewide office.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment 76ca** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Amendment.aspx?Amend=amd76ca.htm)
2. **Printed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB76P.htm&Session=2019&Version=Printed&Bill=76)
3. **Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB76S.htm&Session=2019&Version=Senate&Bill=76)
4. **Senate State Affairs** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB76SST.htm&Session=2019&Version=Senate State Affairs&Bill=76)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB76ENR.htm&Session=2019&Version=Enrolled&Bill=76)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2019 — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2019SB 18, SB 45, SB 90, SB 75, SB 76, SB 77, SB 143 — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bolin — primary (person)
- Rounds — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** First read in Senate and referred to Senate State Affairs S.J. 156 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-01-28** State Affairs Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 76ca `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-01-28** State Affairs Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0. S.J. 196 `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-28** Placed on consent, Passed
- **2019-01-30** Remove from Consent Calendar S.J. 236
- **2019-01-31** Senate Motion to amend, Passed S.J. 254 Amendment 76cb
- **2019-01-31** Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 0. S.J. 254 `passage`
- **2019-02-05** First read in House and referred to House State Affairs H.J. 292 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-25** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-02-25** State Affairs Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0. H.J. 514 `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. 552 `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`
- **2019-03-12** Signed by the Governor on March 12, 2019 S.J. 689 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95b9806d-2919-43ee-99e8-4f37bf5d9a47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).