---
type: "Bill"
title: "increase the assessment of liquidated court costs and to revise the disposition of the funds collected."
description: "increase the assessment of liquidated court costs and to revise the disposition of the funds collected."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 26"
citation: "South Dakota SB 26 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Court Costs", "Courts and Judiciary", "Delayed Effective Date", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Law Enforcement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-01-14"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a060f717-f9d6-4e38-9457-8b4875ee962f"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=26&Session=2020"
source_hash: "1a0c9545bb46d34449a44ae417daf849877a27134e7d2992d3ff9f94f9e927ca"
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 26 (2020) — increase the assessment of liquidated court costs and to revise the disposition of the funds collected.

## 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=SB26P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=26)
2. **House** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB26H.html&Session=2020&Version=House&Bill=26)
3. **Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB26S.html&Session=2020&Version=Senate&Bill=26)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB26ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=26)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2020 — **19–14** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended - 2020 — **62–5** (pass) · lower
- Concurred in amendments - 2020 — **25–6** (pass) · upper
- Reconsidered - 2020 — **30–4** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended - 2020 — **31–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Judiciary — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-14** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Judiciary S.J. 11 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-21** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-01-21** Judiciary Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 1. `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-22** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 60
- **2020-01-23** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 67
- **2020-01-24** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 73
- **2020-01-27** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 90
- **2020-01-30** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 115
- **2020-02-04** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 131
- **2020-02-05** Senate Do Pass, Failed, YEAS 19, NAYS 14. S.J. 144 `failure`
- **2020-02-05** Intent to reconsider S.J. 144
- **2020-02-06** Senate Reconsidered, Passed, YEAS 30, NAYS 4. S.J. 152
- **2020-02-06** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 153
- **2020-02-10** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 174
- **2020-02-11** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 188
- **2020-02-12** Senate Motion to amend, Passed S.J. 208 Amendment 26E
- **2020-02-12** Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 31, NAYS 3. S.J. 209 `passage`
- **2020-02-13** First Reading House H.J. 279
- **2020-02-27** Referred to House Committee on Appropriations H.J. 433 `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-04** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-03-04** House Committee on Appropriations Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-05** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 497
- **2020-03-09** House of Representatives Motion to amend, Passed H.J. 509 Amendment 26G
- **2020-03-09** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 62, NAYS 5. H.J. 510 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** Senate Concurred in amendments, Passed, YEAS 25, NAYS 6. S.J. 489
- **2020-03-12** Signed by the President S.J. 524
- **2020-03-12** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 620
- **2020-03-12** Delivered to the Governor on March 12, 2020 S.J. 540 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-30** Signed by the Governor on March 18, 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/a060f717-f9d6-4e38-9457-8b4875ee962f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).