---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise certain provisions regarding school district capital outlay funds."
description: "revise certain provisions regarding school district capital outlay funds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 170"
citation: "South Dakota SB 170 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards of School Districts", "Education", "Fund", "School Districts", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-06"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a784dbc-c5df-476d-8148-3685c7389cf1"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=170&Session=2020"
source_hash: "1baf2852a08b95af23364fe397721c1521ab4524fe5a2eb059ae3f2c0223635d"
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 170 (2020) — revise certain provisions regarding school district capital outlay funds.

## 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=SB170P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=170)
2. **Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB170S.html&Session=2020&Version=Senate&Bill=170)
3. **Senate Education** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB170SED.html&Session=2020&Version=Senate Education&Bill=170)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB170ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=170)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended - 2020 — **65–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended - 2020 — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended - 2020 — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Education — primary (organization)

## 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`
- **2020-02-18** Referred to Senate Education, Passed S.J. 238 `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-20** Education Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 170A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2020-02-20** Education Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 1. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-24** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 321
- **2020-02-25** Senate Motion to amend, Passed S.J. 339 Amendment 170B
- **2020-02-25** Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0. S.J. 340 `passage`
- **2020-02-26** First Reading House H.J. 409
- **2020-02-27** Referred to House Education H.J. 423 `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-03-02** Education Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-03** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 453
- **2020-03-04** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 65, NAYS 3. H.J. 477 `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Signed by the President S.J. 445
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 535
- **2020-03-10** Delivered to the Governor on March 10, 2020 S.J. 474 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-30** Signed by the Governor on March 23, 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/0a784dbc-c5df-476d-8148-3685c7389cf1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).