---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise requirements to relocate a county seat."
description: "revise requirements to relocate a county seat."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 56"
citation: "South Dakota SB 56 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Ballot Measures", "Counties", "Petitions", "Voting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maher"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-02-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4e68275-c4e5-4a33-b302-8d51944c297f"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23701"
source_hash: "9a0919b03e10cca3571f6e56304735dbe0b9db9d4ad0e188059d6083732ea10e"
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 56 (2023) — revise requirements to relocate a county seat.

## 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/23701/242986)
2. **56A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/244822.pdf)
3. **56F** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/245171.pdf)
4. **56G** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/248741.pdf)
5. **House Local Government Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23701/249121)
6. **Senate Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23701/245890)
7. **Senate Local Government Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23701/244991)
8. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23701/249721)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **31–4** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Concurred in amendments — **29–4** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **68–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maher — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-11** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 29 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-20** Scheduled for hearing
- **2023-01-20** Local Government Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 56A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-01-20** Amend the amendment , Passed,
- **2023-01-20** Local Government Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0
- **2023-01-24** Senate Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 104 Amendment 56F `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-01-24** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 31, NAYS 4 S.J. 104
- **2023-01-25** First read in House and referred to H.J. 104 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Scheduled for hearing
- **2023-02-09** Local Government Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 56G `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-09** Local Government Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0
- **2023-02-09** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2023-02-14** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 2 H.J. 293
- **2023-02-16** Senate Concurred in amendments , Passed, YEAS 29, NAYS 4 S.J. 291
- **2023-02-21** Signed by the President S.J. 310 `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 367 `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Delivered to the Governor on 2023-02-27 S.J. 347 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-28** Signed by the Governor on 2023-02-28 S.J. 364 `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/d4e68275-c4e5-4a33-b302-8d51944c297f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).