---
type: "Bill"
title: "prohibit private funding of election costs except for gifts of a nominal and intrinsic value."
description: "prohibit private funding of election costs except for gifts of a nominal and intrinsic value."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 122"
citation: "South Dakota SB 122 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Promulgation of Rules", "State Funds"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blare", "Bolin", "Castleberry", "Crabtree", "Davis", "Finck", "Hoffman (Charlie)", "Jensen (Kevin)", "Klumb", "Kolbeck (Jack)", "Koth", "Maher", "Miskimins", "Peterson (Kent)", "Peterson (Sue)", "Reed", "Rehfeldt", "Reimer", "Rohl", "Stalzer", "Symens", "Tobin", "Wiik", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-26"
last_action: "2022-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3bd681c-5149-412c-86ce-ff0b65e6ce96"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22835"
source_hash: "7b8a3f2c03bd2bc1b767ac2a6045e0ba0cce8ec08a2c4dbaef3c54aed6ff4305"
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 122 (2022) — prohibit private funding of election costs except for gifts of a nominal and intrinsic value.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- Do Pass — **32–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **8–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **68–2** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blare — primary (person)
- Bolin — primary (person)
- Castleberry — primary (person)
- Crabtree — primary (person)
- Davis — primary (person)
- Finck — primary (person)
- Hoffman (Charlie) — primary (person)
- Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
- Klumb — primary (person)
- Kolbeck (Jack) — primary (person)
- Koth — primary (person)
- Maher — primary (person)
- Miskimins — primary (person)
- Peterson (Kent) — primary (person)
- Peterson (Sue) — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Rehfeldt — primary (person)
- Reimer — primary (person)
- Rohl — primary (person)
- Stalzer — primary (person)
- Symens — primary (person)
- Tobin — primary (person)
- Wiik — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-26** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 116 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-14** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 1 S.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-17** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 293
- **2022-02-22** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 3 S.J. 308 `passage`
- **2022-02-23** First Reading House H.J. 430
- **2022-02-24** Referred to H.J. 468 `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-03-02** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 H.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-02** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, H.J. 1
- **2022-03-03** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 2 H.J. 577 `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President S.J. 479 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 635 `passage`
- **2022-03-09** Delivered to the Governor on 2022-03-09 S.J. 495 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-28** Signed by the Governor on 2022-03-28 S.J. 543 `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/c3bd681c-5149-412c-86ce-ff0b65e6ce96`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).