---
type: "Bill"
title: "require criminal background checks for emergency medical technicians and advanced life support personnel."
description: "require criminal background checks for emergency medical technicians and advanced life support personnel."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1122"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1122 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Background Investigation", "Professions and Occupations", "Public Health and Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barthel", "Breitling", "Castleberry", "Chase", "Crabtree", "Davis", "Drury", "Duba", "Finck", "Fitzgerald", "Goodwin", "Greenfield (Brock)", "Greenfield (Lana)", "Healy", "Jensen (Phil)", "Johnson (David)", "Miskimins", "Mulally", "Otten (Ernie)", "Otten (Herman)", "Perry", "Peterson (Kent)", "Pourier", "Reed", "Rehfeldt", "Rohl", "Steinhauer", "Tidemann", "Tobin", "Willadsen", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-01-25"
last_action: "2022-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2d54b1ce-70fb-4189-ade1-50ddff83badb"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22952"
source_hash: "4617c094b09c46d6ada3d6e9076f8289d5f0ff2cf92e1ec26514605dad608d6a"
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 HB 1122 (2022) — require criminal background checks for emergency medical technicians and advanced life support personnel.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.


## Votes

- Do Pass — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barthel — primary (person)
- Breitling — primary (person)
- Castleberry — primary (person)
- Chase — primary (person)
- Crabtree — primary (person)
- Davis — primary (person)
- Drury — primary (person)
- Duba — primary (person)
- Finck — primary (person)
- Fitzgerald — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Greenfield (Brock) — primary (person)
- Greenfield (Lana) — primary (person)
- Healy — primary (person)
- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
- Johnson (David) — primary (person)
- Miskimins — primary (person)
- Mulally — primary (person)
- Otten (Ernie) — primary (person)
- Otten (Herman) — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Peterson (Kent) — primary (person)
- Pourier — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Rehfeldt — primary (person)
- Rohl — primary (person)
- Steinhauer — primary (person)
- Tidemann — primary (person)
- Tobin — primary (person)
- Willadsen — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-25** First read in House and referred to H.J. 116 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-03** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2022-02-04** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 64, NAYS 0 H.J. 212 `passage`
- **2022-02-07** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 192 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-23** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-24** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 385 `passage`
- **2022-02-25** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 483 `passage`
- **2022-02-28** Signed by the President S.J. 416 `passage`
- **2022-03-01** Delivered to the Governor on 2022-03-01 H.J. 498 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-08** Signed by the Governor on 2022-03-08 H.J. 626 `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/2d54b1ce-70fb-4189-ade1-50ddff83badb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).