---
type: "Bill"
title: "make an appropriation for behavioral and mental health service support in crisis stabilization and to declare an emergency."
description: "make an appropriation for behavioral and mental health service support in crisis stabilization and to declare an emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 186"
citation: "South Dakota SB 186 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriation", "Emergency Clause", "Grants", "Mentally Ill Persons"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Curd", "Duba", "Healy", "Jamison", "Milstead", "Nesiba", "Rehfeldt", "Smith (VJ)", "Stalzer", "Steinhauer", "Thomason", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-02-03"
last_action: "2021-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1fa876a-c954-4895-ab1f-fb4e71bbfac8"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22423"
source_hash: "c469929f00f27c07bd84f9a07e5eda35f779fa7f558c622fc6764da2f5ccbd33"
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 186 (2021) — make an appropriation for behavioral and mental health service support in crisis stabilization and to declare an emergency.

## 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/22423/216071)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22423/220030)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **14–4** (pass) · legislature
- Do Pass — **59–10** (pass) · lower
- Referred to — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Curd — primary (person)
- Duba — primary (person)
- Healy — primary (person)
- Jamison — primary (person)
- Milstead — primary (person)
- Nesiba — primary (person)
- Rehfeldt — primary (person)
- Smith (VJ) — primary (person)
- Stalzer — primary (person)
- Steinhauer — primary (person)
- Thomason — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-03** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 170 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10** Scheduled for hearing
- **2021-02-10** Referred to , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 S.J. 1 `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24** Scheduled for hearing J.J. 1
- **2021-02-24** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 14, NAYS 4 J.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-01** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 1 S.J. 367 `passage`
- **2021-03-02** First Reading House H.J. 460
- **2021-03-04** First read in House and referral to committee waived pursuant to JR 6D-1 H.J. 502 `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-03-08** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 59, NAYS 10 H.J. 521 `passage`
- **2021-03-09** Signed by the President S.J. 465 `passage`
- **2021-03-10** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 550 `passage`
- **2021-03-11** Delivered to the Governor on 2021-03-11 S.J. 476 `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/a1fa876a-c954-4895-ab1f-fb4e71bbfac8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).