---
type: "Bill"
title: "enhance the penalty on registered sex offenders who commit sexual contact without consent from a person capable of consenting."
description: "enhance the penalty on registered sex offenders who commit sexual contact without consent from a person capable of consenting."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 77"
citation: "South Dakota SB 77 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes", "Penalty", "Sex Offenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Duhamel", "Fitzgerald", "Reed"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-13"
last_action: "2022-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6beac98b-4c6a-4420-a9e9-ba2cb488f460"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23105"
source_hash: "96302edf0570edd988929e498f5ca2fb4321ced6f7156dcc065bf3ee503aca2e"
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 77 (2022) — enhance the penalty on registered sex offenders who commit sexual contact without consent from a person capable of consenting.

## Version chain

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

1. **77A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/231040.pdf)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Duhamel — primary (person)
- Fitzgerald — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-13** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 46 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-01** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-01** Judiciary Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 77A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-01** Judiciary Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0
- **2022-02-03** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 175
- **2022-02-04** First Reading House H.J. 212
- **2022-02-15** Referred to H.J. 325 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-28** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0 H.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-01** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 70, NAYS 0 H.J. 509
- **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. 542 `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/6beac98b-4c6a-4420-a9e9-ba2cb488f460`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).