---
type: "Bill"
title: "provide for the designation of an appropriate regional facility by the Department of Social Services."
description: "provide for the designation of an appropriate regional facility by the Department of Social Services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 4"
citation: "South Dakota SB 4 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil Commitment", "Mentally Ill Persons"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Haugaard", "Healy", "Soholt", "Sutton"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-14"
last_action: "2020-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/adeff07f-9f5b-4d68-9c78-9cc80f548d14"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=4&Session=2020"
source_hash: "6d552b73b2d2c75560000559af8109b126d081eb8989a7b9cdd26a0d740f1d69"
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 4 (2020) — provide for the designation of an appropriate regional facility by the Department of Social Services.

## 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=SB4P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=4)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB4ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=4)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2020 — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2020 — **65–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2020 — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Haugaard — primary (person)
- Healy — primary (person)
- Soholt — primary (person)
- Sutton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-14** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Health and Human Services S.J. 10 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-01-29** Health and Human Services Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-30** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 115
- **2020-02-04** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 131
- **2020-02-06** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0. S.J. 159 `passage`
- **2020-02-07** First Reading House H.J. 229
- **2020-02-13** Referred to House Health and Human Services H.J. 279 `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-03-03** Health and Human Services Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-04** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 477
- **2020-03-05** House of Representatives Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 65, NAYS 1. H.J. 493 `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
- **2020-03-12** Signed by the Governor on March 12, 2020 S.J. 530 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/adeff07f-9f5b-4d68-9c78-9cc80f548d14`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).