---
type: "Bill"
title: "provide for the payment of signing bonuses to school district staff members."
description: "provide for the payment of signing bonuses to school district staff members."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1308"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1308 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Public Property", "Purchases and Contracts", "School Districts", "Teachers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aylward", "Barthel", "Castleberry", "Davis", "Deutsch", "Greenfield (Brock)", "Jensen (Phil)", "Kolbeck (Jack)", "Mulally", "Perry", "Reimer", "Soye"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-02-02"
last_action: "2022-03-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d61508d2-3eb9-473e-829a-9df894bffdcf"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23296"
source_hash: "1d9f11c2468bdcf0e7fbced0d8687fd50af619c027f4d364e2b748dea29ac659"
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 1308 (2022) — provide for the payment of signing bonuses to school district staff members.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- Do Pass — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **12–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **34–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aylward — primary (person)
- Barthel — primary (person)
- Castleberry — primary (person)
- Davis — primary (person)
- Deutsch — primary (person)
- Greenfield (Brock) — primary (person)
- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
- Kolbeck (Jack) — primary (person)
- Mulally — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Reimer — primary (person)
- Soye — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-02** First Reading House H.J. 178
- **2022-02-04** Referred to H.J. 211 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-14** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-16** House of Representatives Deferred to another day , Passed, H.J. 349
- **2022-02-17** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 67, NAYS 0 H.J. 372 `passage`
- **2022-02-22** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 305 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2022-02-24** Education Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 2 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-25** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 398
- **2022-02-28** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 1 S.J. 408 `passage`
- **2022-03-02** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 536 `passage`
- **2022-03-03** Signed by the President S.J. 457 `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Delivered to the Governor on 2022-03-07 H.J. 594 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-10** Signed by the Governor on 2022-03-10 H.J. 656 `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/d61508d2-3eb9-473e-829a-9df894bffdcf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).