---
type: "Bill"
title: "authorize highway maintenance vehicles to operate at less than the posted minimum speed on interstate highways."
description: "authorize highway maintenance vehicles to operate at less than the posted minimum speed on interstate highways."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 29"
citation: "South Dakota SB 29 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Executive/Judiciary Request", "Highways", "Roads", "and Bridges", "Motor Vehicles", "Speed Limits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 0
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-02-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ec24830-d833-48fe-9dde-aa30f5dd9a16"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22993"
source_hash: "4c48dfb9fef50cfebb136fd1f7a5741d7a5c09d9aaf3310fc52bb4052e2eb108"
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 29 (2022) — authorize highway maintenance vehicles to operate at less than the posted minimum speed on interstate highways.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- Certified uncontested, placed on consent — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **66–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Transportation — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 17 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-14** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2022-01-14** Transportation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 0 S.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-14** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, S.J. 1
- **2022-01-18** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 0 S.J. 66 `passage`
- **2022-01-19** First read in House and referred to H.J. 41 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-01-25** Transportation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-25** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2022-01-26** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 66, NAYS 0 H.J. 130 `passage`
- **2022-01-31** Signed by the President S.J. 143 `passage`
- **2022-02-01** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 172 `passage`
- **2022-02-02** Delivered to the Governor on 2022-02-02 S.J. 158 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-02-09** Signed by the Governor on 2022-02-09 S.J. 219 `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/6ec24830-d833-48fe-9dde-aa30f5dd9a16`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).