---
type: "Bill"
title: "make an appropriation for costs related to forest resiliency and growth in the state and to declare an emergency."
description: "make an appropriation for costs related to forest resiliency and growth in the state and to declare an emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 170"
citation: "South Dakota SB 170 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriation", "Emergency Clause", "Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chase", "Duhamel", "Finck", "Fitzgerald", "Johnson (David)", "Mulally", "Odenbach", "Olson", "Perry", "Rehfeldt", "Rohl", "Rusch", "Schoenfish", "Smith (V. J.)", "Steinhauer", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-31"
last_action: "2022-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fe09fdf2-b920-4e2f-ad82-53b7e67053e5"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23248"
source_hash: "9896ab60779d1399285ee7a2452d0261716ddc60b5d8e9dda89a4fa4f4b2533e"
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 170 (2022) — make an appropriation for costs related to forest resiliency and growth in the state and to declare an emergency.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- Do Pass — **67–2** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **8–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Referred to — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chase — primary (person)
- Duhamel — primary (person)
- Finck — primary (person)
- Fitzgerald — primary (person)
- Johnson (David) — primary (person)
- Mulally — primary (person)
- Odenbach — primary (person)
- Olson — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Rehfeldt — primary (person)
- Rohl — primary (person)
- Rusch — primary (person)
- Schoenfish — primary (person)
- Smith (V. J.) — primary (person)
- Steinhauer — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-31** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 139 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2022-02-03** Referred to , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 S.J. 1 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Referred to , Passed, S.J. 239 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-16** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2022-02-16** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-22** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 318 `passage`
- **2022-02-23** First Reading House H.J. 430
- **2022-02-24** Referred to H.J. 467 `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2022-03-02** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2022-03-03** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2022-03-03** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 1 H.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-07** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 67, NAYS 2 H.J. 607 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Signed by the President S.J. 488 `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. 544 `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/fe09fdf2-b920-4e2f-ad82-53b7e67053e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).