---
type: "Bill"
title: "establish requirements for filling the vacancies of certain constitutional offices."
description: "establish requirements for filling the vacancies of certain constitutional offices."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 112"
citation: "South Dakota SB 112 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Officers and Employees", "State Affairs and Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bolin", "Dennert", "Goodwin", "Heinert", "Johns", "Otten (Ernie)", "Rusch", "Smith (VJ)", "Steinhauer", "Symens", "Willadsen", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-26"
last_action: "2021-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e1d8fdd-f8d8-40fb-a8a8-51aa0ed96251"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22089"
source_hash: "c3d69fa343b311194f338645e4a61a2772a9f0b63f680eb22dfce5be54feda5a"
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 112 (2021) — establish requirements for filling the vacancies of certain constitutional offices.

## 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/22089/213472)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22089/219351)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **32–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **54–14** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **10–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bolin — primary (person)
- Dennert — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Heinert — primary (person)
- Johns — primary (person)
- Otten (Ernie) — primary (person)
- Rusch — primary (person)
- Smith (VJ) — primary (person)
- Steinhauer — primary (person)
- Symens — primary (person)
- Willadsen — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-26** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 115 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-01** Scheduled for hearing
- **2021-02-01** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0 S.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-02** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 2 S.J. 159 `passage`
- **2021-02-03** First Reading House H.J. 195
- **2021-02-04** Referred to H.J. 213 `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2021-03-01** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 10, NAYS 1 H.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-02** House of Representatives Deferred to another day , Passed, H.J. 456
- **2021-03-03** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 54, NAYS 14 H.J. 487 `passage`
- **2021-03-08** Signed by the President S.J. 445 `passage`
- **2021-03-09** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 541 `passage`
- **2021-03-10** Delivered to the Governor on 2021-03-10 S.J. 468 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-29** Signed by the Governor on 2021-03-29 S.J. 494 `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/0e1d8fdd-f8d8-40fb-a8a8-51aa0ed96251`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).