---
type: "Bill"
title: "provide for the downgrade of commercial driver licenses and commercial learners permits upon notice of certain drug and alcohol violations."
description: "provide for the downgrade of commercial driver licenses and commercial learners permits upon notice of certain drug and alcohol violations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 59"
citation: "South Dakota SB 59 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commercial Trucking", "Driver License", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-02-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b869caa-4167-40b3-85fd-be4837da56a0"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24750"
source_hash: "5e342805134fca06176a178ebe7bbb70a6bf566fcdbfa9e4306912598b301778"
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 59 (2024) — provide for the downgrade of commercial driver licenses and commercial learners permits upon notice of certain drug and alcohol violations.

## 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/24750/258469)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24750/263420)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **66–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Transportation — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-09** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 23 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Scheduled for hearing
- **2024-01-17** Transportation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-17** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2024-01-18** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 0 S.J. 108 `passage`
- **2024-01-19** First read in House and referred to H.J. 94 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2024-01-25** Transportation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0 H.J. 9 `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-25** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, H.J. 9
- **2024-01-29** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 66, NAYS 0 H.J. 188 `passage`
- **2024-01-30** Signed by the President S.J. 207 `passage`
- **2024-01-31** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 219 `passage`
- **2024-02-01** Delivered to the Governor on 2024-02-01 S.J. 234 `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/9b869caa-4167-40b3-85fd-be4837da56a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).