---
type: "Bill"
title: "allow medical cannabis establishments to maintain certain cardholder data and to declare an emergency."
description: "allow medical cannabis establishments to maintain certain cardholder data and to declare an emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 198"
citation: "South Dakota SB 198 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency Clause", "Medical Cannabis"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Davis", "Jensen (Kevin)"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-01"
last_action: "2023-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21fd5bf0-c893-4aef-8afd-fa89dafe86e6"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24260"
source_hash: "5c530bfa354fb0a6b884d3c00f020d40221bb5b716a5d700968ff4062c9253e3"
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 198 (2023) — allow medical cannabis establishments to maintain certain cardholder data and to declare an emergency.

## 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/24260/247892)
2. **198B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/248742.pdf)
3. **Senate Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24260/248867)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24260/250459)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion to amend — **20–15** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **10–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **5–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Davis — primary (person)
- Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-01** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 161 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-06** Scheduled for hearing
- **2023-02-06** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-07** Senate Motion to amend , Passed, YEAS 20, NAYS 15 S.J. 216 Amendment 198B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-07** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 217
- **2023-02-08** First Reading House H.J. 260
- **2023-02-09** Referred to H.J. 275 `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23** Scheduled for hearing
- **2023-02-23** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 10, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-24** House of Representatives Deferred to another day , Passed, H.J. 374
- **2023-02-27** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 69, NAYS 0 H.J. 394
- **2023-02-28** Signed by the President S.J. 372 `passage`
- **2023-03-01** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 446 `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Delivered to the Governor on 2023-03-02 S.J. 409 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-09** Signed by the Governor on 2023-03-09 S.J. 472 `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/21fd5bf0-c893-4aef-8afd-fa89dafe86e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).