---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise the penalties and provisions regarding approaching stopped vehicles."
description: "revise the penalties and provisions regarding approaching stopped vehicles."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 164"
citation: "South Dakota SB 164 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles", "Penalty"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bartels", "Bolin", "Bordeaux", "Chase", "Ewing", "Finck", "Glanzer", "Goodwin", "Gosch", "Hammock", "Klumb", "Maher", "Novstrup", "Partridge", "Perry", "Post", "Qualm", "Rounds", "White", "Wiik", "Youngberg"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-06"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/22d599f6-b56e-4024-b97a-c94b6c2411dc"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=164&Session=2020"
source_hash: "143d0cf3a17af96f8d805ac6a1cedf0cdeed05c6e894e946a65808b68940ee4e"
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 164 (2020) — revise the penalties and provisions regarding approaching stopped 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=SB164P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=164)
2. **Senate Judiciary** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB164SJU.html&Session=2020&Version=Senate Judiciary&Bill=164)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB164ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=164)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended - 2020 — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended - 2020 — **32–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended - 2020 — **65–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bartels — primary (person)
- Bolin — primary (person)
- Bordeaux — primary (person)
- Chase — primary (person)
- Ewing — primary (person)
- Finck — primary (person)
- Glanzer — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Gosch — primary (person)
- Hammock — primary (person)
- Klumb — primary (person)
- Maher — primary (person)
- Novstrup — primary (person)
- Partridge — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Post — primary (person)
- Qualm — primary (person)
- Rounds — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- Wiik — primary (person)
- Youngberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-06** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Judiciary S.J. 155 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-25** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-25** Judiciary Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 164A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2020-02-25** Judiciary Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-27** Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 3. S.J. 373 `passage`
- **2020-02-27** First read in House and referred to House State Affairs H.J. 432 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-03-04** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-03-04** State Affairs Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 10, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-09** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 65, NAYS 2. H.J. 520 `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 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/22d599f6-b56e-4024-b97a-c94b6c2411dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).