---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise provisions regarding testimony of qualified mental health professionals at involuntary commitment hearings."
description: "revise provisions regarding testimony of qualified mental health professionals at involuntary commitment hearings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1010"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1010 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil Commitment", "Mentally Ill Persons"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Haugaard", "Healy", "Johns", "Kennedy", "Sutton"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-14"
last_action: "2020-02-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/60117713-cab1-4d42-b29b-c35ca573a061"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=1010&Session=2020"
source_hash: "5e2d6a6f991fbbcc627f7c620cb97f5599049d2a65c754f2b83af60dba37388a"
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 HB 1010 (2020) — revise provisions regarding testimony of qualified mental health professionals at involuntary commitment hearings.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1010P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=1010)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1010ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=1010)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2020 — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- - 2020HB 1010, HB 1019, HB 1037, HB 1053, SB 5, SB 91, HB 1010, HB 1019, HB 1037, HB 1053, SB 5, SB 91 — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **68–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Haugaard — primary (person)
- Healy — primary (person)
- Johns — primary (person)
- Kennedy — primary (person)
- Sutton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-14** First Reading House H.J. 11
- **2020-01-15** Referred to House Judiciary H.J. 19 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-01-24** Judiciary Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-27** House of Representatives Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 0. H.J. 70 `passage`
- **2020-01-28** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Health and Human Services S.J. 99 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-05** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-05** Health and Human Services Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-05** Certified uncontested, placed on consent
- **2020-02-06** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 0. S.J. 158 `passage`
- **2020-02-10** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 249
- **2020-02-11** Signed by the President S.J. 192
- **2020-02-12** Delivered to the Governor on February 12, 2020 H.J. 265 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-20** Signed by the Governor on February 19, 2020 H.J. 326 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/60117713-cab1-4d42-b29b-c35ca573a061`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).