---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise the voting requirements necessary for the board to grant or deny parole or recommend clemency."
description: "revise the voting requirements necessary for the board to grant or deny parole or recommend clemency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 15"
citation: "South Dakota SB 15 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Executive/Judiciary Request", "Penal Institutions", "Probation and Parole"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-02-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29be04d5-2ce2-43e8-81f0-978eee391bd3"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/21995"
source_hash: "d372a61958c485c2ad6f4bdbfbd391c205edf6cc02d0f16ff0b9900f09a58786"
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 15 (2021) — revise the voting requirements necessary for the board to grant or deny parole or recommend clemency.

## 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/21995/209998)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/21995/215833)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Judiciary — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 15 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** Scheduled for hearing
- **2021-01-21** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 S.J. 2 `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-21** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, S.J. 2
- **2021-01-22** Remove from Consent Calendar S.J. 96
- **2021-01-25** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 104 `passage`
- **2021-01-26** First read in House and referred to H.J. 130 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-01** Scheduled for hearing
- **2021-02-01** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-01** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2021-02-02** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 69, NAYS 0 H.J. 180 `passage`
- **2021-02-03** Signed by the President S.J. 174 `passage`
- **2021-02-04** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 218 `passage`
- **2021-02-05** Delivered to the Governor on 2021-02-05 S.J. 199 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-10** Signed by the Governor on 2021-02-10 S.J. 232 `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/29be04d5-2ce2-43e8-81f0-978eee391bd3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).