---
type: "Bill"
title: "expand eligibility for the reduced tuition benefit for certain school district and Head Start employees at Board of Regents institutions to school counselors."
description: "expand eligibility for the reduced tuition benefit for certain school district and Head Start employees at Board of Regents institutions to school counselors."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1"
citation: "South Dakota SB 1 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Higher Education", "Teachers", "Therapists and Counselors", "Tuition"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arlint", "Bolin", "Bordeaux", "Davis", "Duba", "Emery", "Foster", "Healy", "Heermann", "Hunhoff", "Johnson", "Kassin", "Kolbeck (Steve)", "Larson", "Lesmeister", "Mehlhaff", "Nelson (Kameron)", "Nesiba", "Pinnow", "Pourier", "Reed", "Rehfeldt", "Rohl", "Stevens", "Tordsen", "Wittman", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96d2fa82-ec87-468a-b6db-133f99ffc5a5"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24406"
source_hash: "04de458f6c8ce4715faa66daac2caaa2a03a9c90bc0d29251627849b638deba2"
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 1 (2024) — expand eligibility for the reduced tuition benefit for certain school district and Head Start employees at Board of Regents institutions to school counselors.

## 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/24406/256790)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24406/267012)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Referred to — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **60–8** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **30–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Arlint — primary (person)
- Bolin — primary (person)
- Bordeaux — primary (person)
- Davis — primary (person)
- Duba — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Foster — primary (person)
- Healy — primary (person)
- Heermann — primary (person)
- Hunhoff — primary (person)
- Johnson — primary (person)
- Kassin — primary (person)
- Kolbeck (Steve) — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Lesmeister — primary (person)
- Mehlhaff — primary (person)
- Nelson (Kameron) — primary (person)
- Nesiba — primary (person)
- Pinnow — primary (person)
- Pourier — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Rehfeldt — primary (person)
- Rohl — primary (person)
- Stevens — primary (person)
- Tordsen — primary (person)
- Wittman — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-09** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 19 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-16** Scheduled for hearing
- **2024-01-16** Education Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-17** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 30, NAYS 3 S.J. 97 `passage`
- **2024-01-18** First read in House and referred to H.J. 85 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Scheduled for hearing
- **2024-01-24** Referred to , Passed, YEAS 14, NAYS 0 `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Scheduled for hearing
- **2024-02-27** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-27** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2024-02-28** Remove from Consent Calendar H.J. 426
- **2024-02-29** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 60, NAYS 8 H.J. 446 `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Signed by the President S.J. 477 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 480 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Delivered to the Governor on 2024-03-06 S.J. 490 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-26** Signed by the Governor on 2024-03-26 S.J. 528 `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/96d2fa82-ec87-468a-b6db-133f99ffc5a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).