---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise provisions regarding health benefit plans."
description: "revise provisions regarding health benefit plans."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 181"
citation: "South Dakota SB 181 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care", "Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blare", "Bordeaux", "Finck", "Johnson (David)", "Overweg", "Partridge", "Perry", "Willadsen"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-06"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9dd094ac-51e0-4e57-a17a-d29231de593f"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=181&Session=2020"
source_hash: "671ae422ccccff9b497fe0fe44fd3563fc4bf2e7fec56556290d6b541236d8e5"
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 181 (2020) — revise provisions regarding health benefit plans.

## 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=SB181P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=181)
2. **Senate Commerce and Energy** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB181SCO.html&Session=2020&Version=Senate Commerce and Energy&Bill=181)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB181ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=181)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2020 — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- - 2020HB 1058, SB 148, SB 181, HB 1058, SB 148, SB 181 — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended - 2020 — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- - 2020SB 181, SB 181 — **65–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blare — primary (person)
- Bordeaux — primary (person)
- Finck — primary (person)
- Johnson (David) — primary (person)
- Overweg — primary (person)
- Partridge — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Willadsen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-06** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Commerce and Energy S.J. 154 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-13** Commerce and Energy Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 181A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2020-02-13** Commerce and Energy Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-13** Certified uncontested, placed on consent, Passed
- **2020-02-19** Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 0. S.J. 256 `passage`
- **2020-02-20** First Reading House H.J. 335
- **2020-02-27** Referred to House Commerce and Energy H.J. 422 `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-04** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-03-04** Commerce and Energy Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-04** Certified uncontested, placed on consent
- **2020-03-05** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 65, NAYS 0. H.J. 488 `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/9dd094ac-51e0-4e57-a17a-d29231de593f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).