---
type: "Bill"
title: "permit municipalities to contribute more to the cost of insurance provided to certain officers or retired employees."
description: "permit municipalities to contribute more to the cost of insurance provided to certain officers or retired employees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1286"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1286 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance", "Municipal Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Drury", "Duhamel", "Smith (V. J.)"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-02-01"
last_action: "2022-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/229decd9-c1ff-4a34-ac8c-854e31aef70a"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23443"
source_hash: "6dba7eda7183ec19eb6cca0b84b672ce9f4be5c7cb14bfd97c900ecbb81dc766"
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 1286 (2022) — permit municipalities to contribute more to the cost of insurance provided to certain officers or retired employees.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- Do Pass — **12–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **53–15** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Drury — primary (person)
- Duhamel — primary (person)
- Smith (V. J.) — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-01** First Reading House H.J. 166
- **2022-02-02** Referred to H.J. 183 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-08** Local Government Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-09** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 53, NAYS 15 H.J. 251 `passage`
- **2022-02-10** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 233 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-16** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-16** Local Government Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-17** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 293
- **2022-02-22** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 320
- **2022-02-24** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 384 `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/229decd9-c1ff-4a34-ac8c-854e31aef70a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).