---
type: "Bill"
title: "authorize the Department of Corrections to make healthcare improvements at the South Dakota Women's Prison, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency."
description: "authorize the Department of Corrections to make healthcare improvements at the South Dakota Women's Prison, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 33"
citation: "South Dakota SB 33 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriation", "Emergency Clause", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Penal Institutions", "Probation and Parole"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 0
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f5d2cec-f62a-491c-877e-3f23a7b69da1"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22987"
source_hash: "f69fa7a51444623eea7afc1d1d9a52125ada7330fcf34a3cccd1e943a1e8fbe5"
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 33 (2022) — authorize the Department of Corrections to make healthcare improvements at the South Dakota Women's Prison, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- Do Pass — **65–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **7–0** (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** Referred to , Passed, S.J. 239 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-22** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-23** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 1 S.J. 369 `passage`
- **2022-02-24** First read in House and referred to H.J. 465 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2022-03-02** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-03** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 65, NAYS 3 H.J. 583 `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. 542 `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/5f5d2cec-f62a-491c-877e-3f23a7b69da1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).