---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise certain definitions in laws regarding physical therapists."
description: "revise certain definitions in laws regarding physical therapists."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 86"
citation: "South Dakota SB 86 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions", "Health Care", "Licensure", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Duhamel", "York"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-01-18"
last_action: "2022-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64ce80e1-b364-4823-9f19-b5a3bdda029e"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23164"
source_hash: "f033ac3810198bc50a8815227cd3e5974a568172a6fb631cc750e42ec4c9ad3b"
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 86 (2022) — revise certain definitions in laws regarding physical therapists.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- Do Pass — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Duhamel — primary (person)
- York — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-18** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 63 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-31** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2022-01-31** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 S.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-31** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, S.J. 1
- **2022-02-01** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 152 `passage`
- **2022-02-02** First Reading House H.J. 183
- **2022-02-15** Referred to H.J. 325 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-25** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 10, NAYS 0 H.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-25** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, H.J. 1
- **2022-02-28** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 62, NAYS 3 H.J. 488 `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/64ce80e1-b364-4823-9f19-b5a3bdda029e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).