---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise provisions regarding the appointment of inactive watershed district boards and the reactivation of watershed districts and to declare an emergency."
description: "revise provisions regarding the appointment of inactive watershed district boards and the reactivation of watershed districts and to declare an emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1166"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1166 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions", "Emergency Clause", "Taxation", "Water Management"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson", "Chase", "Duvall", "Schoenfish"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-30"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad4dfcf8-f835-4b57-ad62-67b86852f21c"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=1166&Session=2020"
source_hash: "8f3e32562d363080bdc901dd2b29d740ecdb7cc42975eeea08e344aafcd8287c"
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 1166 (2020) — revise provisions regarding the appointment of inactive watershed district boards and the reactivation of watershed districts and to declare an emergency.

## 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=HB1166P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=1166)
2. **Senate Local Government** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1166SLO.html&Session=2020&Version=Senate Local Government&Bill=1166)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1166ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=1166)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended - 2020 — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **65–1** (pass) · lower
- Concurred in amendments - 2020 — **63–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended - 2020 — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Anderson — primary (person)
- Chase — primary (person)
- Duvall — primary (person)
- Schoenfish — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-30** First Reading House H.J. 98
- **2020-02-04** Referred to House Agriculture and Natural Resources H.J. 117 `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-20** Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-21** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 352
- **2020-02-24** House of Representatives Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 65, NAYS 1. H.J. 368 `passage`
- **2020-02-25** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Local Government S.J. 338 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-03-02** Local Government Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 1166A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2020-03-02** Local Government Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-04** Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0. S.J. 418 `passage`
- **2020-03-09** House of Representatives Concurred in amendments, Passed, YEAS 63, NAYS 3. H.J. 504
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 583
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the President S.J. 491
- **2020-03-11** Delivered to the Governor on March 11, 2020 H.J. 557 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-30** Signed by the Governor on March 26, 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/ad4dfcf8-f835-4b57-ad62-67b86852f21c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).