---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise provisions regarding township contracts for snow removal."
description: "revise provisions regarding township contracts for snow removal."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 4"
citation: "South Dakota SB 4 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Highways", "Roads", "and Bridges", "Public Property", "Purchases and Contracts", "Townships"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bartels", "Blare", "Bolin", "Callies", "Davis", "Deibert", "Duba", "Duhamel", "Emery", "Johnson", "Kull", "Mehlhaff", "Otten (Ernie)", "Overweg", "Pinnow", "Reed", "Rohl", "Tobin", "Wangsness", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-02-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/505fabb1-ee23-4661-817e-e034f1a3f670"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24431"
source_hash: "c73eca88cba0c3ae02de89e99db0881351f6f927d2aa29af219e9ea67cda6d88"
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 4 (2024) — revise provisions regarding township contracts for snow removal.

## 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/24431/256793)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24431/262674)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **68–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bartels — primary (person)
- Blare — primary (person)
- Bolin — primary (person)
- Callies — primary (person)
- Davis — primary (person)
- Deibert — primary (person)
- Duba — primary (person)
- Duhamel — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Johnson — primary (person)
- Kull — primary (person)
- Mehlhaff — primary (person)
- Otten (Ernie) — primary (person)
- Overweg — primary (person)
- Pinnow — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Rohl — primary (person)
- Tobin — primary (person)
- Wangsness — 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. 21 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-12** Scheduled for hearing
- **2024-01-12** Local Government Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-12** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2024-01-16** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 0 S.J. 86 `passage`
- **2024-01-17** First read in House and referred to H.J. 74 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-23** Scheduled for hearing
- **2024-01-23** Local Government Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-23** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2024-01-24** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 0 H.J. 166 `passage`
- **2024-01-25** Signed by the President S.J. 186 `passage`
- **2024-01-29** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 192 `passage`
- **2024-01-30** Delivered to the Governor on 2024-01-30 S.J. 202 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-06** Signed by the Governor on 2024-02-06 S.J. 264 `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/505fabb1-ee23-4661-817e-e034f1a3f670`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).