---
type: "Bill"
title: "increase the bid limit for certain public improvements."
description: "increase the bid limit for certain public improvements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 135"
citation: "South Dakota SB 135 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Contracts", "Public Property", "Purchases and Contracts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chaffee", "Duhamel", "Ewing", "Mills", "Soholt", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-30"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ed2e11d-7bae-457e-8911-9715eefbbcc1"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=135&Session=2020"
source_hash: "13449799e139b6827fd935b71e4234ebaf49b33c7601d3aeee63ce2b069ad8d2"
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 SB 135 (2020) — increase the bid limit for certain public improvements.

## 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=SB135P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=135)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB135ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=135)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2020 — **4–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **58–8** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2020 — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2020 — **22–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chaffee — primary (person)
- Duhamel — primary (person)
- Ewing — primary (person)
- Mills — primary (person)
- Soholt — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-30** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Local Government S.J. 119 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-07** Local Government Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 4, NAYS 3. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-10** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 22, NAYS 13. S.J. 177 `passage`
- **2020-02-11** First Reading House H.J. 257
- **2020-02-27** Referred to House Local Government H.J. 433 `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-05** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-03-05** Local Government Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-05** Certified uncontested, placed on consent
- **2020-03-09** House of Representatives Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 58, NAYS 8. H.J. 530 `passage`
- **2020-03-10** Signed by the President S.J. 475
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 583
- **2020-03-12** Delivered to the Governor on March 12, 2020 S.J. 522 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-30** Signed by the Governor on March 16, 2020 S.J. 557 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ed2e11d-7bae-457e-8911-9715eefbbcc1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).