---
type: "Bill"
title: "authorize the Board of Regents to contract for the design, renovation, and construction of an addition for a health sciences center at Black Hills State University–Rapid City, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency."
description: "authorize the Board of Regents to contract for the design, renovation, and construction of an addition for a health sciences center at Black Hills State University–Rapid City, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 43"
citation: "South Dakota SB 43 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriation", "Emergency Clause", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Higher Education", "Procurement of Public Improvements"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 0
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4b847a9-c8f0-41b3-b15b-d66ce00a6f40"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23028"
source_hash: "67e1e0dc57d954f49b184a52f95aeea6eba171fa879d1c06b67d72fc757c846f"
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 43 (2022) — authorize the Board of Regents to contract for the design, renovation, and construction of an addition for a health sciences center at Black Hills State University–Rapid City, 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

- Referred to — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **61–7** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## 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. 12 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-01-18** Referred to , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `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`
- **2022-02-17** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 293
- **2022-02-22** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 308 `passage`
- **2022-02-23** First Reading House H.J. 430
- **2022-02-24** Referred to H.J. 467 `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2022-03-01** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-03** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 61, NAYS 7 H.J. 580 `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/d4b847a9-c8f0-41b3-b15b-d66ce00a6f40`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).