---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise the provisions regarding the South Dakota state employee health plan."
description: "revise the provisions regarding the South Dakota state employee health plan."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 57"
citation: "South Dakota SB 57 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Executive/Judiciary Request", "Insurance", "Public Officers and Employees", "State Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4db8052f-539c-40b1-9f79-5f95438e38e3"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22037"
source_hash: "bf16a0c6d58a8b6e37172a68319abbd4b39fd33d659d3ec1db715c2676b05d3a"
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 57 (2021) — revise the provisions regarding the South Dakota state employee health plan.

## 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/22037/210663)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22037/219011)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **6–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **27–7** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **12–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **55–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Commerce and Energy — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 16 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-27** Scheduled for hearing
- **2021-01-27** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 3 S.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-28** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 137
- **2021-02-01** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 141
- **2021-02-03** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 27, NAYS 7 S.J. 173 `passage`
- **2021-02-04** First Reading House H.J. 213
- **2021-02-10** Referred to H.J. 279 `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01** Scheduled for hearing
- **2021-03-01** Commerce and Energy Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-02** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 55, NAYS 13 H.J. 468 `passage`
- **2021-03-04** Signed by the President S.J. 422 `passage`
- **2021-03-08** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 527 `passage`
- **2021-03-09** Delivered to the Governor on 2021-03-09 S.J. 460 `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/4db8052f-539c-40b1-9f79-5f95438e38e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).