---
type: "Bill"
title: "create the South Dakota Board of Physical Therapy and make an appropriation therefor."
description: "create the South Dakota Board of Physical Therapy and make an appropriation therefor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 78"
citation: "South Dakota SB 78 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions", "Fees", "Fund", "Health Care", "Liability", "Licensure", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bordeaux", "Davis", "Deutsch", "Diedrich", "Healy", "Hunhoff", "Kassin", "Moore", "Nelson", "Rehfeldt", "Rohl", "Schaefbauer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-20"
last_action: "2023-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e10f65a-4a43-4e06-92d1-aaebac8c3dff"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23976"
source_hash: "8e1406b2dac24d54cc4374928167513f4dfda2884aaf361d1f8025e9f9c49570"
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 78 (2023) — create the South Dakota Board of Physical Therapy and make an appropriation therefor.

## 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/23976/244849)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23976/250456)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **64–5** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bordeaux — primary (person)
- Davis — primary (person)
- Deutsch — primary (person)
- Diedrich — primary (person)
- Healy — primary (person)
- Hunhoff — primary (person)
- Kassin — primary (person)
- Moore — primary (person)
- Nelson — primary (person)
- Rehfeldt — primary (person)
- Rohl — primary (person)
- Schaefbauer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-20** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 76 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** Scheduled for hearing
- **2023-02-01** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-02** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 179 `passage`
- **2023-02-03** First read in House and referred to H.J. 223 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23** Scheduled for hearing
- **2023-02-23** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-24** House of Representatives Deferred to another day , Passed, H.J. 374
- **2023-02-27** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 64, NAYS 5 H.J. 393 `passage`
- **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/9e10f65a-4a43-4e06-92d1-aaebac8c3dff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).