---
type: "Bill"
title: "prohibit employment contracts restricting competitive health care practices."
description: "prohibit employment contracts restricting competitive health care practices."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1154"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1154 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Contracts", "Health Care", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aylward", "Curd", "Davis", "Deutsch", "Gosch", "Greenfield (Brock)", "Hoffman", "Jensen (Phil)", "Mulally", "Randolph", "Rehfeldt", "Soye", "Stalzer", "Tobin", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-28"
last_action: "2021-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e04d8db-256d-4e48-9f7d-9073172569c0"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22265"
source_hash: "60d645e99df8e401099bce0cec1af16946ef1434606b6dcdf5c258dec56d7d1e"
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 HB 1154 (2021) — prohibit employment contracts restricting competitive health care practices.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22265/214740)
2. **1154B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/218170.pdf)
3. **1154E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/218536.pdf)
4. **House Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22265/218623)
5. **House Judiciary Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22265/218464)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22265/219973)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **41–27** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **7–6** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **19–16** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aylward — primary (person)
- Curd — primary (person)
- Davis — primary (person)
- Deutsch — primary (person)
- Gosch — primary (person)
- Greenfield (Brock) — primary (person)
- Hoffman — primary (person)
- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
- Mulally — primary (person)
- Randolph — primary (person)
- Rehfeldt — primary (person)
- Soye — primary (person)
- Stalzer — primary (person)
- Tobin — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-28** First Reading House H.J. 148
- **2021-02-02** Referred to H.J. 178 `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24** Scheduled for hearing
- **2021-02-24** Judiciary Motion to amend , Passed, H.J. 1 Amendment 1154B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-24** Judiciary Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 6 H.J. 1
- **2021-02-25** House of Representatives Motion to amend , Passed, H.J. 421 Amendment 1154E `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-25** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 41, NAYS 27 H.J. 421
- **2021-03-01** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 365 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-03** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2021-03-03** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 2 S.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-08** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 19, NAYS 16 S.J. 441
- **2021-03-09** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 541 `passage`
- **2021-03-10** Delivered to the Governor on 2021-03-10 H.J. 547 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-10** Signed by the President S.J. 470 `passage`
- **2021-03-29** Signed by the Governor on 2021-03-29 H.J. 570 `executive-signature, executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e04d8db-256d-4e48-9f7d-9073172569c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).