---
type: "Bill"
title: "make an appropriation for the replacement of the Richmond Lake spillway, for the general maintenance and repair of other state-owned dams, and to declare an emergency."
description: "make an appropriation for the replacement of the Richmond Lake spillway, for the general maintenance and repair of other state-owned dams, and to declare an emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 52"
citation: "South Dakota SB 52 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriation", "Emergency Clause", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Procurement of Public Improvements", "Public Waters"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20e9cc13-951f-4639-b20f-ebd01ce8bbbc"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23052"
source_hash: "9d506c79911a13b6aa37ebcfb4ccbc16f246de6ec13346766936c24c2a819367"
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 52 (2022) — make an appropriation for the replacement of the Richmond Lake spillway, for the general maintenance and repair of other state-owned dams, 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 — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **66–0** (pass) · lower
- Referred to — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **17–0** (pass) · legislature

## 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. 9 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2022-01-13** Referred to , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0 S.J. 1 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-10** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 17, NAYS 0 J.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-15** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 259 `passage`
- **2022-02-16** First Reading House H.J. 344
- **2022-02-22** Referred to H.J. 404 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-24** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0 H.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-25** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 66, NAYS 0 H.J. 481 `passage`
- **2022-02-28** Signed by the President S.J. 416 `passage`
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 509 `passage`
- **2022-03-02** Delivered to the Governor on 2022-03-02 S.J. 435 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the Governor on 2022-03-09 S.J. 494 `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/20e9cc13-951f-4639-b20f-ebd01ce8bbbc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).