---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise the allocation of fees collected by the obligation recovery center and to revise certain venue, jurisdiction, and collection efforts regarding the co-owners of titled motor vehicles, motorcycles, and boats."
description: "revise the allocation of fees collected by the obligation recovery center and to revise certain venue, jurisdiction, and collection efforts regarding the co-owners of titled motor vehicles, motorcycles, and boats."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 59"
citation: "South Dakota SB 59 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil Procedure", "Debtor and Creditor", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Motor Vehicles", "Motorcycles", "State Funds"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/077425ff-3d09-4526-b863-a6f205ac6009"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22010"
source_hash: "c82f75f340dd49d7eed3c7ba01baa21d79458f8530e11280fe9dd27051d5514d"
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 59 (2021) — revise the allocation of fees collected by the obligation recovery center and to revise certain venue, jurisdiction, and collection efforts regarding the co-owners of titled motor vehicles, motorcycles, and boats.

## 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/22010/210667)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22010/218794)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **31–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **63–6** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **8–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Appropriations — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 13 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-04** Scheduled for hearing
- **2021-02-04** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-05** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 202
- **2021-02-08** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 31, NAYS 2 S.J. 212 `passage`
- **2021-02-09** First Reading House H.J. 254
- **2021-02-10** Referred to H.J. 279 `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** Scheduled for hearing
- **2021-02-18** Transportation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-22** House of Representatives Deferred to another day , Passed, H.J. 337
- **2021-02-23** House of Representatives Deferred to another day , Passed, H.J. 367
- **2021-03-01** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 63, NAYS 6 H.J. 440 `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/077425ff-3d09-4526-b863-a6f205ac6009`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).