---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise provisions pertaining to township eligibility for the rural access infrastructure fund."
description: "revise provisions pertaining to township eligibility for the rural access infrastructure fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 145"
citation: "South Dakota SB 145 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Highways", "Roads", "and Bridges", "Townships"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Overweg", "Schoenfish"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-26"
last_action: "2023-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7651b50b-dce9-425f-81f5-ec8bf2f86397"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24217"
source_hash: "8236fde5a649b870efb9cbcbe34ec27b5dec8ba2ad0ad2be546f7064b25e2d20"
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 145 (2023) — revise provisions pertaining to township eligibility for the rural access infrastructure fund.

## 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/24217/246598)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24217/250901)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **28–7** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **10–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **68–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Overweg — primary (person)
- Schoenfish — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-26** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 126 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2023-02-01** Transportation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 S.J. 9 `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-01** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, S.J. 10
- **2023-02-02** Remove from Consent Calendar S.J. 179
- **2023-02-03** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 190
- **2023-02-06** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 28, NAYS 7 S.J. 203 `passage`
- **2023-02-07** First read in House and referred to H.J. 248 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Scheduled for hearing
- **2023-02-28** Taxation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 10, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-01** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 0 H.J. 441 `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Signed by the President S.J. 417 `passage`
- **2023-03-06** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 489 `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Delivered to the Governor on 2023-03-07 S.J. 442 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-27** Signed by the Governor on 2023-03-27 S.J. 494 `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/7651b50b-dce9-425f-81f5-ec8bf2f86397`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).