---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise the membership and responsibilities of the South Dakota Board on Geographic Names."
description: "revise the membership and responsibilities of the South Dakota Board on Geographic Names."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 62"
citation: "South Dakota SB 62 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions", "Promulgation of Rules", "State Affairs and Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Duvall", "Schoenbeck"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-22"
last_action: "2020-02-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff359af6-b520-4a79-94f8-11c1e36d3a44"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=62&Session=2020"
source_hash: "7ce4b8b4ca687c42a2f1b2279c4f389260fa3f995179d98cc0e5eee549716f9e"
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 62 (2020) — revise the membership and responsibilities of the South Dakota Board on Geographic Names.

## 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=SB62P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=62)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB62ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=62)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2020 — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- - 2020HB 1009, HB 1011, HB 1165, SB 8, SB 62, HB 1009, HB 1011, SB 8, SB 62, HB 1165 — **65–0** (pass) · lower
- - 2020SB 14, SB 15, SB 62, SB 14, SB 15, SB 62 — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Duvall — primary (person)
- Schoenbeck — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-22** First read in Senate and referred to Senate State Affairs S.J. 61 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-01-24** State Affairs Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-24** Certified uncontested, placed on consent
- **2020-01-27** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 0. S.J. 91 `passage`
- **2020-01-28** First read in House and referred to House State Affairs H.J. 77 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-12** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-12** State Affairs Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-12** Certified uncontested, placed on consent
- **2020-02-13** House of Representatives Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 65, NAYS 0. H.J. 278 `passage`
- **2020-02-18** Signed by the President S.J. 245
- **2020-02-19** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 323
- **2020-02-20** Delivered to the Governor on February 20, 2020 S.J. 291 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-25** Signed by the Governor on February 24, 2020 S.J. 329 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff359af6-b520-4a79-94f8-11c1e36d3a44`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).