---
type: "Bill"
title: "increase the basic salary schedule for county veterans' service officers."
description: "increase the basic salary schedule for county veterans' service officers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1045"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1045 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Veterans Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06ed536c-d985-4458-9fe7-d74ebf144a30"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23891"
source_hash: "93d08a0595706acbb16f34e8288d033f0433a2eab1d7919483f2408ddb9b05f6"
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 HB 1045 (2023) — increase the basic salary schedule for county veterans' service officers.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23891/242567)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23891/250842)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Military and Veterans Affairs — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10** First Reading House H.J. 14
- **2023-01-11** Referred to H.J. 24 `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-23** Scheduled for hearing
- **2023-01-23** Military and Veterans Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-25** Referred to , Passed, H.J. 101 `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Referred to , Passed, H.J. 157 `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Scheduled for hearing
- **2023-02-16** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0 H.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-16** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, H.J. 1
- **2023-02-21** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 63, NAYS 7 H.J. 335 `passage`
- **2023-02-22** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 318 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-27** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2023-02-27** Military and Veterans Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 0 S.J. 9 `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-01** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 0 S.J. 390 `passage`
- **2023-03-06** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 489 `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Signed by the President S.J. 447 `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Delivered to the Governor on 2023-03-08 H.J. 509 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-27** Signed by the Governor on 2023-03-27 H.J. 544 `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/06ed536c-d985-4458-9fe7-d74ebf144a30`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).