---
type: "Bill"
title: "exempt certain medical providers from licensure."
description: "exempt certain medical providers from licensure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 78"
citation: "South Dakota SB 78 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care", "Licenses", "Professions and Occupations", "Public Health and Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Curd", "Hansen", "Heinert", "Johns", "Otten (Ernie)", "Soholt"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f790de0-2eee-4eb1-b384-77944380ac2c"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=78&Session=2019"
source_hash: "89244b99008f1d6f3c8f2c3a06d9fa0a23bf4eaf830858ad472706844ba3aa1f"
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 78 (2019) — exempt certain medical providers from licensure.

## Version chain

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

1. **Printed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB78P.htm&Session=2019&Version=Printed&Bill=78)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB78ENR.htm&Session=2019&Version=Enrolled&Bill=78)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2019 — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2019 — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2019 — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2019HB 1013, HB 1036, SB 78 — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Curd — primary (person)
- Hansen — primary (person)
- Heinert — primary (person)
- Johns — primary (person)
- Otten (Ernie) — primary (person)
- Soholt — 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. 156 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-01-28** Health and Human Services Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0. S.J. 197 `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-28** Placed on consent, Passed
- **2019-01-29** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 31, NAYS 0. S.J. 216 `passage`
- **2019-01-30** First read in House and referred to House Health and Human Services H.J. 267 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-02-12** Health and Human Services Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0. H.J. 366 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-13** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 398
- **2019-02-14** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 423
- **2019-02-19** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 443
- **2019-02-20** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 453
- **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 Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 69, NAYS 0. H.J. 554 `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/8f790de0-2eee-4eb1-b384-77944380ac2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).