---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise holiday pay for state employees."
description: "revise holiday pay for state employees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 68"
citation: "South Dakota SB 68 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Executive/Judiciary Request", "State Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 0
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3f24d7d-d040-4a43-9561-d01159b49a2a"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23078"
source_hash: "3fc00b42be9104a678537a2f885ae21aa3d4ee90676084b4144b41c8b8314d1b"
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 68 (2022) — revise holiday pay for state employees.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- Do Pass — **12–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **62–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- State Affairs — 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`
- **2022-01-19** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-01-19** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-19** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2022-01-20** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 0 S.J. 83 `passage`
- **2022-01-21** First read in House and referred to H.J. 56 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-23** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-24** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 62, NAYS 4 H.J. 470 `passage`
- **2022-02-25** Signed by the President S.J. 400 `passage`
- **2022-02-28** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 495 `passage`
- **2022-03-01** Delivered to the Governor on 2022-03-01 S.J. 423 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-08** Signed by the Governor on 2022-03-08 S.J. 489 `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/f3f24d7d-d040-4a43-9561-d01159b49a2a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).