---
type: "Bill"
title: "make an appropriation to the Department of Labor and Regulation for the modernization of the reemployment assistance enterprise system and to declare an emergency."
description: "make an appropriation to the Department of Labor and Regulation for the modernization of the reemployment assistance enterprise system and to declare an emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 31"
citation: "South Dakota SB 31 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriation", "Emergency Clause", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Reemployment Assistance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 0
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31984d15-d2b5-4c6a-9d39-16feaba1a9bd"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23007"
source_hash: "2068de31738334053dbf4a07d2247d4d5a4448be3f735520d6128aac0df348e6"
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 31 (2022) — make an appropriation to the Department of Labor and Regulation for the modernization of the reemployment assistance enterprise system and to declare an emergency.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- Do Pass — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **16–0** (pass) · legislature
- Do Pass — **61–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Senate Committee on Appropriations — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 11 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to , Passed, S.J. 35 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Scheduled for hearing J.J. 1
- **2022-02-23** Scheduled for hearing J.J. 1
- **2022-02-23** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 16, NAYS 0 J.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-24** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 381 `passage`
- **2022-02-25** First read in House and referral to committee waived pursuant to JR 6D-1 H.J. 478 `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-28** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 61, NAYS 4 H.J. 491 `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/31984d15-d2b5-4c6a-9d39-16feaba1a9bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).