---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise certain provisions regarding hunting with drones."
description: "revise certain provisions regarding hunting with drones."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1059"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1059 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Drones", "Game", "Fish", "Parks and Forestry", "Hunting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barthel", "Bordeaux", "Castleberry", "Chaffee", "Chase", "Curd", "Deutsch", "Diedrich", "Duhamel", "Duvall", "Ewing", "Finck", "Foster", "Glanzer", "Goodwin", "Greenfield (Brock)", "Hammock", "Howard", "Johns", "Johnson (David)", "Klumb", "Miskimins", "Monroe", "Mulally", "Novstrup", "Olson", "Otten (Herman)", "Perry", "Peterson (Kent)", "Qualm", "Reimer", "Rounds", "Rusch", "Smith (Jamie)", "Soholt", "Steele", "Wangsness", "White", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-16"
last_action: "2020-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8319151-ffbf-43bd-900a-4fb7ad02354e"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=1059&Session=2020"
source_hash: "3fc99898b97b0ef467344416c28f5daaf3e50a60b5d045b168dbdcb650b927ad"
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 1059 (2020) — revise certain provisions regarding hunting with drones.

## 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=HB1059P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=1059)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1059ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=1059)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2020 — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- - 2020HB 1048, HB 1059, HB 1082, HB 1086, HB 1091, HB 1105, HB 1106, HB 1120, HB 1048, HB 1059, HB 1086, HB 1091, HB 1106, HB 1120, HB 1082, HB 1105 — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- - 2020HB 1059, HB 1091, HB 1105, HB 1120, SB 23, SB 30, HB 1059, HB 1091, HB 1120, SB 30, HB 1105, SB 23 — **65–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barthel — primary (person)
- Bordeaux — primary (person)
- Castleberry — primary (person)
- Chaffee — primary (person)
- Chase — primary (person)
- Curd — primary (person)
- Deutsch — primary (person)
- Diedrich — primary (person)
- Duhamel — primary (person)
- Duvall — primary (person)
- Ewing — primary (person)
- Finck — primary (person)
- Foster — primary (person)
- Glanzer — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Greenfield (Brock) — primary (person)
- Hammock — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Johns — primary (person)
- Johnson (David) — primary (person)
- Klumb — primary (person)
- Miskimins — primary (person)
- Monroe — primary (person)
- Mulally — primary (person)
- Novstrup — primary (person)
- Olson — primary (person)
- Otten (Herman) — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Peterson (Kent) — primary (person)
- Qualm — primary (person)
- Reimer — primary (person)
- Rounds — primary (person)
- Rusch — primary (person)
- Smith (Jamie) — primary (person)
- Soholt — primary (person)
- Steele — primary (person)
- Wangsness — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-16** First Reading House H.J. 26
- **2020-01-21** Referred to House Agriculture and Natural Resources H.J. 38 `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-06** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-06** Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-06** Certified uncontested, placed on consent
- **2020-02-07** House of Representatives Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 65, NAYS 0. H.J. 227 `passage`
- **2020-02-10** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Transportation S.J. 175 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-19** Transportation Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-19** Certified uncontested, placed on consent
- **2020-02-20** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0. S.J. 294 `passage`
- **2020-02-21** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 352
- **2020-02-24** Signed by the President S.J. 327
- **2020-02-25** Delivered to the Governor on February 25, 2020 H.J. 374 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-02** Signed by the Governor on February 27, 2020 H.J. 435 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c8319151-ffbf-43bd-900a-4fb7ad02354e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).