---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise provisions for repair, replacement, and construction of sidewalks within a municipality."
description: "revise provisions for repair, replacement, and construction of sidewalks within a municipality."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 137"
citation: "South Dakota SB 137 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipal Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ewing", "Greenfield (Lana)", "Reed", "Reimer", "Schoenfish", "Wismer"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-30"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c2f234e-8d13-49e3-90ca-8c59326cb3fa"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=137&Session=2020"
source_hash: "58fc1b21cb148cfa9f24ff536102c4da7ae27ad176a354ff4693ce34a4d0518c"
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 137 (2020) — revise provisions for repair, replacement, and construction of sidewalks within a municipality.

## 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=SB137P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=137)
2. **Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB137S.html&Session=2020&Version=Senate&Bill=137)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB137ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=137)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended - 2020 — **50–13** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended - 2020 — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **11–2** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2020 — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ewing — primary (person)
- Greenfield (Lana) — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Reimer — primary (person)
- Schoenfish — primary (person)
- Wismer — 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 7, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-07** Certified uncontested, placed on consent
- **2020-02-10** Remove from Consent Calendar S.J. 175
- **2020-02-11** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 188
- **2020-02-12** Senate Motion to amend, Passed S.J. 210 Amendment 137A
- **2020-02-12** Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 0. S.J. 211 `passage`
- **2020-02-13** First Reading House H.J. 279
- **2020-02-26** Referred to House Local Government H.J. 410 `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-03-03** Local Government Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 2. `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-04** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 477
- **2020-03-05** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 50, NAYS 13. H.J. 497 `passage`
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President S.J. 470
- **2020-03-11** Delivered to the Governor on March 11, 2020 S.J. 488 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 583
- **2020-03-30** Signed by the Governor on March 20, 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/1c2f234e-8d13-49e3-90ca-8c59326cb3fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).