---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise the appropriation for road improvements to the State Veterans Cemetery, to provide for ordinary operations of the cemetery, and to declare an emergency."
description: "revise the appropriation for road improvements to the State Veterans Cemetery, to provide for ordinary operations of the cemetery, and to declare an emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 63"
citation: "South Dakota SB 63 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriation", "Emergency Clause", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Procurement of Public Improvements", "Veterans Affairs"]
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/89540717-5105-4ca5-9ecc-feae8cbca6b6"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23039"
source_hash: "9cd16cc8c9d34e1f0c6868935105616f63e830de1c5e520640741a9ba29aa640"
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 63 (2022) — revise the appropriation for road improvements to the State Veterans Cemetery, to provide for ordinary operations of the cemetery, 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 — **18–0** (pass) · legislature
- Referred to — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **64–0** (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. 16 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-01-26** Referred to , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 0 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-09** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-23** Scheduled for hearing J.J. 1
- **2022-02-23** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 18, NAYS 0 J.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-24** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 383 `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 64, NAYS 0 H.J. 493 `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/89540717-5105-4ca5-9ecc-feae8cbca6b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).