---
type: "Bill"
title: "create a state seal specialty plate emblem."
description: "create a state seal specialty plate emblem."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 52"
citation: "South Dakota SB 52 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fees", "Motor Vehicles", "State Affairs and Government", "State Seal"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson", "Blare", "Bordeaux", "Castleberry", "Duvall", "Foster", "Goodwin", "Kolbeck", "Mills", "Monroe", "Otten (Ernie)", "Peterson (Sue)", "Soholt", "Steele", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-21"
last_action: "2020-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa54aaa8-cd11-4013-9dbe-9b37c2d34d41"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=52&Session=2020"
source_hash: "9fb4acaf9815ba2a6df0c9dfbdaae93243e6e98bc5ce65423983deef70f479e9"
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 52 (2020) — create a state seal specialty plate emblem.

## 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=SB52P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=52)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB52ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=52)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2020 — **31–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **9–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2020 — **66–2** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2020 — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Anderson — primary (person)
- Blare — primary (person)
- Bordeaux — primary (person)
- Castleberry — primary (person)
- Duvall — primary (person)
- Foster — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Kolbeck — primary (person)
- Mills — primary (person)
- Monroe — primary (person)
- Otten (Ernie) — primary (person)
- Peterson (Sue) — primary (person)
- Soholt — primary (person)
- Steele — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-21** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Transportation S.J. 56 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-01-29** Transportation Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-29** Certified uncontested, placed on consent
- **2020-01-30** Removed from Consent Calendar S.J. 121
- **2020-02-04** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 31, NAYS 1. S.J. 133 `passage`
- **2020-02-05** First read in House and referred to House Transportation H.J. 171 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-20** Transportation Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 1. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-21** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 352
- **2020-02-24** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 370
- **2020-02-25** House of Representatives Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 66, NAYS 2. H.J. 392 `passage`
- **2020-02-27** Signed by the President S.J. 375
- **2020-03-02** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 444
- **2020-03-03** Delivered to the Governor on March 03, 2020 S.J. 398 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-05** Signed by the Governor on March 04, 2020 S.J. 426 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aa54aaa8-cd11-4013-9dbe-9b37c2d34d41`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).