---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise provisions regarding industrial hemp."
description: "revise provisions regarding industrial hemp."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 117"
citation: "South Dakota SB 117 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture and Horticulture", "Criminal Background Investigation", "Industrial Hemp", "Licensure"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blare", "Duba", "Emery", "Jensen (Phil)", "Klumb", "Larson", "Lesmeister", "Nelson (Kameron)", "Nesiba", "Overweg", "Pischke", "Stevens", "Teunissen", "Wittman", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-23"
last_action: "2024-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/76c5701b-0382-4192-a3c0-5de5598fdf43"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24685"
source_hash: "d9a3f5f1cfff570b5eb52a58ed51c515921e315bd895678145464f7fccea0c5e"
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 117 (2024) — revise provisions regarding industrial hemp.

## 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/24685/261287)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24685/266631)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **67–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blare — primary (person)
- Duba — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
- Klumb — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Lesmeister — primary (person)
- Nelson (Kameron) — primary (person)
- Nesiba — primary (person)
- Overweg — primary (person)
- Pischke — primary (person)
- Stevens — primary (person)
- Teunissen — primary (person)
- Wittman — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-23** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 146 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-30** Scheduled for hearing
- **2024-01-30** Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 S.J. 3 `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-30** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, S.J. 3
- **2024-01-31** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 31, NAYS 0 S.J. 221 `passage`
- **2024-02-01** First read in House and referred to H.J. 227 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Scheduled for hearing
- **2024-02-22** Agriculture and Natural Resources Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 10, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-23** House of Representatives Deferred to another day , Passed, H.J. 389
- **2024-02-26** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 67, NAYS 1 H.J. 404 `passage`
- **2024-02-27** Signed by the President S.J. 435 `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 432 `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Delivered to the Governor on 2024-02-29 S.J. 455 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by the Governor on 2024-03-07 S.J. 512 `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/76c5701b-0382-4192-a3c0-5de5598fdf43`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).