---
type: "Bill"
title: "modify the composition of the Retirement Laws Committee."
description: "modify the composition of the Retirement Laws Committee."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 85"
citation: "South Dakota SB 85 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislature and Statutes", "Organization of the Legislature", "Retirement System"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Johnson (Chris)", "Schoenbeck"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-21"
last_action: "2021-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70ba3362-3a48-446a-bbbd-c16453e8a6bd"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/21853"
source_hash: "fe7c8231a98a4460f8bcb61284e8f543ab3680c141e04f0ce082f82de08ca784"
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 85 (2021) — modify the composition of the Retirement Laws Committee.

## 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/21853/212220)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/21853/219017)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **20–13** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **56–11** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **11–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Johnson (Chris) — primary (person)
- Schoenbeck — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-21** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 88 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2021-02-03** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 2 `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-05** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 202
- **2021-02-08** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 20, NAYS 13 S.J. 210 `passage`
- **2021-02-09** First Reading House H.J. 254
- **2021-02-10** Referred to H.J. 280 `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-11** Referred to , Passed, H.J. 284 `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2021-03-01** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 2 H.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-02** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 56, NAYS 11 H.J. 470 `passage`
- **2021-03-08** Signed by the President S.J. 445 `passage`
- **2021-03-09** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 541 `passage`
- **2021-03-10** Delivered to the Governor on 2021-03-10 S.J. 468 `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/70ba3362-3a48-446a-bbbd-c16453e8a6bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).