---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise criteria for the South Dakota freedom scholarship."
description: "revise criteria for the South Dakota freedom scholarship."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 154"
citation: "South Dakota SB 154 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions", "Grants", "Higher Education", "Students"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Breitling", "Mortenson"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-27"
last_action: "2022-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d3462bf-0cc7-4de6-9074-ce40290efcaf"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23351"
source_hash: "254d956db736e2ce0221efdf1fce5e77a3d925b319137d07f29637e794507df2"
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 154 (2022) — revise criteria for the South Dakota freedom scholarship.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- Do Pass — **40–25** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **26–9** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **10–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Breitling — primary (person)
- Mortenson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-27** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 128 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-10** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-10** Education Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 0 S.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-10** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, S.J. 1
- **2022-02-14** Remove from Consent Calendar S.J. 240
- **2022-02-15** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 26, NAYS 9 S.J. 260 `passage`
- **2022-02-16** First Reading House H.J. 344
- **2022-02-17** Referred to H.J. 368 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-25** Education Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 10, NAYS 3 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-28** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 40, NAYS 25 H.J. 494 `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. 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/6d3462bf-0cc7-4de6-9074-ce40290efcaf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).