---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise certain provisions regarding the health professionals assistance program."
description: "revise certain provisions regarding the health professionals assistance program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 4"
citation: "South Dakota SB 4 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Controlled Substances", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Health Care", "Mentally Ill Persons", "Professions and Occupations", "Public Health and Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fae39739-8ea5-4415-9b25-879718567e77"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/21873"
source_hash: "48cde2abe1985d4eaf978281fd5ea9e13cddeef5202ca5a890521c16c66c0c75"
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 4 (2021) — revise certain provisions regarding the health professionals assistance program.

## 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/21873/209839)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/21873/218784)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Health and Human Services — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 14 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-27** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2021-01-27** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0 S.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-27** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, S.J. 1
- **2021-01-28** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 136 `passage`
- **2021-02-01** First Reading House H.J. 166
- **2021-02-02** Referred to H.J. 180 `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25** Scheduled for hearing
- **2021-02-25** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-25** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2021-03-01** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 1 H.J. 439 `passage`
- **2021-03-02** Signed by the President S.J. 384 `passage`
- **2021-03-02** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 467 `passage`
- **2021-03-03** Delivered to the Governor on 2021-03-03 S.J. 389 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-09** Signed by the Governor on 2021-03-09 S.J. 458 `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/fae39739-8ea5-4415-9b25-879718567e77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).