---
type: "Bill"
title: "repeal and revise certain provisions regarding riot, to establish the crime of incitement to riot, and to revise provisions regarding civil liability for riot and riot boosting."
description: "repeal and revise certain provisions regarding riot, to establish the crime of incitement to riot, and to revise provisions regarding civil liability for riot and riot boosting."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1117"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1117 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Liability", "Personal Rights and Obligations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-29"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3c0ecb0-5a8d-481b-be2b-aa01362d7227"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=1117&Session=2020"
source_hash: "ccf23d5e574d91a957b215e9fd99771e14dfd2e79eadb818eaf2f43e8ee06327"
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 1117 (2020) — repeal and revise certain provisions regarding riot, to establish the crime of incitement to riot, and to revise provisions regarding civil liability for riot and riot boosting.

## 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=HB1117P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=1117)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1117ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=1117)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2020 — **10–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2020 — **27–8** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **45–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- State Affairs — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-29** First Reading House H.J. 83
- **2020-01-30** Referred to House State Affairs H.J. 107 `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-12** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-12** State Affairs Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 10, NAYS 3. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-13** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 283
- **2020-02-18** House of Representatives Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 45, NAYS 25. H.J. 302 `passage`
- **2020-02-19** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Judiciary S.J. 256 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-03-03** Judiciary Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 1. `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-05** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 27, NAYS 8. S.J. 440 `passage`
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 535
- **2020-03-10** Signed by the President S.J. 475
- **2020-03-11** Delivered to the Governor on March 11, 2020 H.J. 552 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-30** Signed by the Governor on March 23, 2020 H.J. 629 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3c0ecb0-5a8d-481b-be2b-aa01362d7227`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).