---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise provisions regarding candidates running for office."
description: "revise provisions regarding candidates running for office."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 77"
citation: "South Dakota SB 77 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Political Party"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Novstrup", "Perry"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0c51090-66f7-4dde-ab0f-3eafa08cde36"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=77&Session=2019"
source_hash: "0aed39b7223883625039a7ee61d0b9b8d6689827c09d5b816310074c3279e3f3"
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 77 (2019) — revise provisions regarding candidates running for office.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment 77ca** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Amendment.aspx?Amend=amd77ca.htm)
2. **Printed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB77P.htm&Session=2019&Version=Printed&Bill=77)
3. **Senate State Affairs** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB77SST.htm&Session=2019&Version=Senate State Affairs&Bill=77)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB77ENR.htm&Session=2019&Version=Enrolled&Bill=77)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **30–4** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **8–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2019 — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2019SB 18, SB 45, SB 90, SB 75, SB 76, SB 77, SB 143 — **69–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Novstrup — primary (person)
- Perry — 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
- **2019-02-08** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-02-11** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-02-13** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-02-13** State Affairs Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 77ca `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-13** State Affairs Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 1. S.J. 364 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-19** Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 30, NAYS 4. S.J. 403 `passage`
- **2019-02-20** First read in House and referred to House State Affairs H.J. 450 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-25** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-02-25** State Affairs Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 12, 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`
- **2019-03-11** Signed by the Governor on March 11, 2019 S.J. 678 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e0c51090-66f7-4dde-ab0f-3eafa08cde36`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).