---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise provisions regarding replacement nursing facilities."
description: "revise provisions regarding replacement nursing facilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 139"
citation: "South Dakota SB 139 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Nursing Homes", "Public Health and Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Curd", "Gosch", "Hunhoff", "Langer", "Monroe", "Novstrup", "Qualm", "Reed", "Stalzer", "Steinhauer", "Willadsen", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-30"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1aa6a6ce-65d7-4f23-ba12-2019488c7c5b"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=139&Session=2020"
source_hash: "4b7227501c6f17921a5cc37baa5cb207eadcbfa39bba34811c906b7525e58d25"
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 139 (2020) — revise provisions regarding replacement nursing facilities.

## 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=SB139P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=139)
2. **Senate Commerce and Energy** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB139SCO.html&Session=2020&Version=Senate Commerce and Energy&Bill=139)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB139ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=139)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended - 2020 — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended - 2020 — **66–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended - 2020 — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Curd — primary (person)
- Gosch — primary (person)
- Hunhoff — primary (person)
- Langer — primary (person)
- Monroe — primary (person)
- Novstrup — primary (person)
- Qualm — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Stalzer — primary (person)
- Steinhauer — primary (person)
- Willadsen — 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 Commerce and Energy S.J. 116 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-11** Commerce and Energy Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 139A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2020-02-11** Commerce and Energy Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-13** Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 31, NAYS 0. S.J. 232 `passage`
- **2020-02-18** First Reading House H.J. 298
- **2020-02-27** Referred to House Health and Human Services H.J. 433 `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-05** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-03-05** Health and Human Services Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 10, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-09** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 66, NAYS 0. H.J. 524 `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 24, 2020 S.J. 558 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1aa6a6ce-65d7-4f23-ba12-2019488c7c5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).