---
type: "Bill"
title: "provide for the temporary filling of water development district board positions created as a result of population increases."
description: "provide for the temporary filling of water development district board positions created as a result of population increases."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1124"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1124 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions", "Water Management"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bartels", "Blare", "Callies", "Chaffee", "Heermann", "Hunhoff", "Koth", "Peterson (Drew)", "Reimer", "Reisch", "Schoenfish", "Stevens", "Teunissen", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-22"
last_action: "2024-02-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/519fd793-53b7-4341-a057-5bb3690a0fb6"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24860"
source_hash: "546c9ab60e5a164a9005446a6fa6792f68e10c4fafe0c748b2a2794d41552c73"
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 1124 (2024) — provide for the temporary filling of water development district board positions created as a result of population increases.

## 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/24860/260944)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24860/264847)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bartels — primary (person)
- Blare — primary (person)
- Callies — primary (person)
- Chaffee — primary (person)
- Heermann — primary (person)
- Hunhoff — primary (person)
- Koth — primary (person)
- Peterson (Drew) — primary (person)
- Reimer — primary (person)
- Reisch — primary (person)
- Schoenfish — primary (person)
- Stevens — primary (person)
- Teunissen — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-22** First read in House and referred to H.J. 144 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Scheduled for hearing
- **2024-01-25** Local Government Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-25** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2024-01-29** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 66, NAYS 0 H.J. 188 `passage`
- **2024-01-30** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 203 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-05** Scheduled for hearing
- **2024-02-05** Local Government Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-05** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2024-02-06** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 0 S.J. 270 `passage`
- **2024-02-07** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 284 `passage`
- **2024-02-08** Signed by the President S.J. 289 `passage`
- **2024-02-12** Delivered to the Governor on 2024-02-12 H.J. 302 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-20** Signed by the Governor on 2024-02-20 H.J. 352 `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/519fd793-53b7-4341-a057-5bb3690a0fb6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).