---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise certain provisions relating to the South Dakota Retirement System."
description: "revise certain provisions relating to the South Dakota Retirement System."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 56"
citation: "South Dakota SB 56 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Executive/Judiciary Request", "Retirement System"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 0
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46151e40-0f3a-430d-b807-727176c9c266"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22802"
source_hash: "5aa46a21cf759335885a8c4eaeb3f2327be68cad03bd42eac3c160d78d797c9d"
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 56 (2022) — revise certain provisions relating to the South Dakota Retirement System.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- Do Pass — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **68–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **3–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Retirement Laws — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 16 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-01-26** Retirement Laws Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 4, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-31** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 141 `passage`
- **2022-02-01** First Reading House H.J. 167
- **2022-02-07** Referred to H.J. 223 `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2022-03-01** Retirement Laws Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 3, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-03** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 0 H.J. 582 `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/46151e40-0f3a-430d-b807-727176c9c266`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).