---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise provisions regarding the use of certain lights by tow truck vehicles and Department of Transportation authorized vehicles."
description: "revise provisions regarding the use of certain lights by tow truck vehicles and Department of Transportation authorized vehicles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1170"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1170 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bartels", "Barthel", "Bolin", "Bordeaux", "Chase", "Duba", "Duvall", "Ewing", "Finck", "Glanzer", "Johns", "Koth", "Nesiba", "Partridge", "Post", "Rounds", "Saba", "Steele", "Steinhauer", "Wiik"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-30"
last_action: "2020-03-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ebcf7df-bf87-4fe8-9b13-95b510b70e6d"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=1170&Session=2020"
source_hash: "965445ab6229641cca175044072f03d89ad3f4cd66c21b7ae69cac1acccf67c1"
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 1170 (2020) — revise provisions regarding the use of certain lights by tow truck vehicles and Department of Transportation authorized vehicles.

## 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=HB1170P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=1170)
2. **House** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1170H.html&Session=2020&Version=House&Bill=1170)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1170ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=1170)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2020 — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **7–4** (pass) · lower
- - 2020HB 1170, HB 1178, HB 1208, HB 1178, HB 1208, HB 1170 — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended - 2020 — **69–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bartels — primary (person)
- Barthel — primary (person)
- Bolin — primary (person)
- Bordeaux — primary (person)
- Chase — primary (person)
- Duba — primary (person)
- Duvall — primary (person)
- Ewing — primary (person)
- Finck — primary (person)
- Glanzer — primary (person)
- Johns — primary (person)
- Koth — primary (person)
- Nesiba — primary (person)
- Partridge — primary (person)
- Post — primary (person)
- Rounds — primary (person)
- Saba — primary (person)
- Steele — primary (person)
- Steinhauer — primary (person)
- Wiik — 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 Transportation H.J. 117 `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-13** Transportation Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 4. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-18** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 300
- **2020-02-20** House of Representatives Motion to amend, Passed H.J. 337 Amendment 1170A
- **2020-02-20** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 69, NAYS 0. H.J. 337 `passage`
- **2020-02-20** House of Representatives Title amended, Passed H.J. 338 Amendment 1170C
- **2020-02-21** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Transportation S.J. 305 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-26** Transportation Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-26** Certified uncontested, placed on consent
- **2020-02-27** Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0. S.J. 367 `passage`
- **2020-03-02** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 444
- **2020-03-03** Signed by the President S.J. 405
- **2020-03-04** Delivered to the Governor on March 04, 2020 H.J. 462 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-10** Signed by the Governor on March 09, 2020 H.J. 537 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ebcf7df-bf87-4fe8-9b13-95b510b70e6d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).