---
type: "Bill"
title: "require the POW/MIA flag be displayed in the Senate and House of Representative chambers."
description: "require the POW/MIA flag be displayed in the Senate and House of Representative chambers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 197"
citation: "South Dakota SB 197 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Property", "Purchases and Contracts", "Veterans Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bordeaux", "Castleberry", "Crabtree", "Duba", "Fitzgerald", "Frye-Mueller", "Goodwin", "Greenfield (Brock)", "Kolbeck (Jack)", "Lesmeister", "Marty", "Milstead", "Nesiba", "Olson", "Overweg", "Perry", "Pourier", "Randolph", "Rehfeldt", "Schoenfish", "Smith (Jamie)", "Smith (V. J.)", "St. John", "Symens", "Tobin", "Vasgaard", "Wiese", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-02-02"
last_action: "2022-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1561b3ef-e0d7-42d2-b01d-951578c7bbc1"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22680"
source_hash: "0d28cb952730f98693b962afe6d7d90c1793384537d824685872e4445c9add8b"
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 197 (2022) — require the POW/MIA flag be displayed in the Senate and House of Representative chambers.

## 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 — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bordeaux — primary (person)
- Castleberry — primary (person)
- Crabtree — primary (person)
- Duba — primary (person)
- Fitzgerald — primary (person)
- Frye-Mueller — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Greenfield (Brock) — primary (person)
- Kolbeck (Jack) — primary (person)
- Lesmeister — primary (person)
- Marty — primary (person)
- Milstead — primary (person)
- Nesiba — primary (person)
- Olson — primary (person)
- Overweg — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Pourier — primary (person)
- Randolph — primary (person)
- Rehfeldt — primary (person)
- Schoenfish — primary (person)
- Smith (Jamie) — primary (person)
- Smith (V. J.) — primary (person)
- St. John — primary (person)
- Symens — primary (person)
- Tobin — primary (person)
- Vasgaard — primary (person)
- Wiese — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-02** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 161 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-14** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0 S.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-14** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, S.J. 1
- **2022-02-15** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 258 `passage`
- **2022-02-16** First Reading House H.J. 344
- **2022-02-22** Referred to H.J. 404 `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-03-01** Military and Veterans Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-03** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 67, NAYS 0 H.J. 579 `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/1561b3ef-e0d7-42d2-b01d-951578c7bbc1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).