---
type: "Bill"
title: "exempt certain real property from the special maintenance fee levy."
description: "exempt certain real property from the special maintenance fee levy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 161"
citation: "South Dakota SB 161 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fees", "Municipal Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bordeaux", "Finck", "Gosch", "Klumb", "Kolbeck", "Qualm", "Steinhauer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-06"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2de32bf6-a3a6-4c04-afb0-a78bdfb7e2fe"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=161&Session=2020"
source_hash: "f16aa7df9bea4522c71603fd1afa997718fce57a5b3caa50169354d0a00eb1b6"
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 161 (2020) — exempt certain real property from the special maintenance fee levy.

## 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=SB161P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=161)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB161ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=161)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2020 — **24–11** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **60–6** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2020 — **8–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2020 — **4–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bordeaux — primary (person)
- Finck — primary (person)
- Gosch — primary (person)
- Klumb — primary (person)
- Kolbeck — primary (person)
- Qualm — primary (person)
- Steinhauer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-06** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Taxation S.J. 156 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-21** Taxation Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 4, NAYS 2. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-24** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 24, NAYS 11. S.J. 326 `passage`
- **2020-02-25** First Reading House H.J. 387
- **2020-02-27** Referred to House Taxation H.J. 423 `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-03-03** Taxation Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 3. `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-04** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 477
- **2020-03-05** House of Representatives Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 60, NAYS 6. H.J. 493 `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 26, 2020 S.J. 559 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2de32bf6-a3a6-4c04-afb0-a78bdfb7e2fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).