---
type: "Bill"
title: "establish the Jobs for South Dakota's Graduates program and the special donation fund."
description: "establish the Jobs for South Dakota's Graduates program and the special donation fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 39"
citation: "South Dakota SB 39 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Fund"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-14"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8c2980f-6aca-435a-927a-1acd16e3c909"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=39&Session=2020"
source_hash: "b1c2bfa5957a9767309042b031181f93b34b6bed3bbda1fceef4e543870ab60c"
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 39 (2020) — establish the Jobs for South Dakota's Graduates program and the special donation fund.

## 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=SB39P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=39)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB39ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=39)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2020 — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2020 — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **60–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- State Affairs — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-14** First Reading Senate S.J. 14
- **2020-01-15** Referred to Senate Education S.J. 17 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-01-23** Education Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-24** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 73
- **2020-01-27** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 90
- **2020-01-28** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0. S.J. 101 `passage`
- **2020-01-29** First Reading House H.J. 85
- **2020-02-04** Referred to House Education H.J. 118 `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-04** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-03-04** Education 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 Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 60, NAYS 7. H.J. 509 `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 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/f8c2980f-6aca-435a-927a-1acd16e3c909`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).