---
type: "Bill"
title: "prohibit sexual contact between prison employees and prisoners."
description: "prohibit sexual contact between prison employees and prisoners."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 119"
citation: "South Dakota SB 119 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Penal Institutions", "Probation and Parole", "State Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reed", "Rehfeldt", "Rohl", "Rusch", "Wheeler"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-26"
last_action: "2022-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0957f461-f33a-4ce8-9312-eeb4df1f7c6c"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22929"
source_hash: "ca0405f9182e0c16cf284e8941922dedbd54a23a51313e9ff8e5966385eefe9e"
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 119 (2022) — prohibit sexual contact between prison employees and prisoners.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- Do Pass — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Reed — primary (person)
- Rehfeldt — primary (person)
- Rohl — primary (person)
- Rusch — primary (person)
- Wheeler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-26** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 115 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-17** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-17** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-17** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2022-02-22** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 307 `passage`
- **2022-02-23** First Reading House H.J. 430
- **2022-02-24** Referred to H.J. 467 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-28** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0 H.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-28** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, H.J. 1
- **2022-03-01** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 69, NAYS 0 H.J. 507 `passage`
- **2022-03-02** Signed by the President S.J. 445 `passage`
- **2022-03-03** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 589 `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Delivered to the Governor on 2022-03-07 S.J. 462 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-28** Signed by the Governor on 2022-03-28 S.J. 542 `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/0957f461-f33a-4ce8-9312-eeb4df1f7c6c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).