---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise certain provisions regarding a municipal office nominating petition."
description: "revise certain provisions regarding a municipal office nominating petition."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 61"
citation: "South Dakota SB 61 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Municipal Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chaffee", "Diedrich", "Duhamel", "Partridge", "Reed", "Schoenbeck", "Soholt"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-21"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ee6aff8-b0d4-4f94-b84c-49b420b059a9"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=61&Session=2020"
source_hash: "2392cbb3f4e32d770446ac461b3cea632723538620050addecfd9db797a78859"
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 61 (2020) — revise certain provisions regarding a municipal office nominating petition.

## 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=SB61P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=61)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB61ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=61)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2020 — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- - 2020SB 56, SB 60, SB 61, SB 142, SB 148, SB 167, SB 61, SB 56, SB 60, SB 142, SB 148, SB 167 — **67–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2020 — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2020 — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chaffee — primary (person)
- Diedrich — primary (person)
- Duhamel — primary (person)
- Partridge — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Schoenbeck — primary (person)
- Soholt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-21** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Local Government S.J. 56 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-05** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-05** Local Government Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-06** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0. S.J. 160 `passage`
- **2020-02-07** First Reading House H.J. 229
- **2020-02-26** Referred to House Local Government H.J. 410 `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-03-03** Local Government Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-03** Certified uncontested, placed on consent
- **2020-03-04** House of Representatives Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 67, NAYS 1. H.J. 469 `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Signed by the President S.J. 445
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 535
- **2020-03-10** Delivered to the Governor on March 10, 2020 S.J. 474 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-30** Signed by the Governor on March 25, 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/2ee6aff8-b0d4-4f94-b84c-49b420b059a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).