---
type: "Bill"
title: "remove a prohibition on the ability of law enforcement and various governmental entities to inspect, search, seize, prosecute, or impose disciplinary action on cannabis dispensaries, cultivation facilities, manufacturing facilities, and testing facilities."
description: "remove a prohibition on the ability of law enforcement and various governmental entities to inspect, search, seize, prosecute, or impose disciplinary action on cannabis dispensaries, cultivation facilities, manufacturing facilities, and testing facilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 71"
citation: "South Dakota SB 71 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Law Enforcement", "Medical Cannabis", "Public Health and Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bartels", "Crabtree", "Deutsch", "Duhamel", "Fitzgerald", "Gross", "Hoffman", "Jensen (Kevin)", "Kolbeck (Steve)", "Koth", "Kull", "Mehlhaff", "Novstrup", "Perry", "Pinnow", "Schaefbauer", "Schoenbeck", "Shorma", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82d77c56-5ab8-44f9-aae8-a140af00362d"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24699"
source_hash: "7feaf39db40f5aeaefe9030776c023f4fba2ae5b0cce4d58b1c576fa85970f39"
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 71 (2024) — remove a prohibition on the ability of law enforcement and various governmental entities to inspect, search, seize, prosecute, or impose disciplinary action on cannabis dispensaries, cultivation facilities, manufacturing facilities, and testing facilities.

## 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/24699/258553)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24699/266933)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **26–7** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **11–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **59–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bartels — primary (person)
- Crabtree — primary (person)
- Deutsch — primary (person)
- Duhamel — primary (person)
- Fitzgerald — primary (person)
- Gross — primary (person)
- Hoffman — primary (person)
- Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
- Kolbeck (Steve) — primary (person)
- Koth — primary (person)
- Kull — primary (person)
- Mehlhaff — primary (person)
- Novstrup — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Pinnow — primary (person)
- Schaefbauer — primary (person)
- Schoenbeck — primary (person)
- Shorma — 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`
- **2024-01-17** Scheduled for hearing
- **2024-01-17** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 4, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-18** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 109
- **2024-01-19** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 123
- **2024-01-22** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 26, NAYS 7 S.J. 131 `passage`
- **2024-01-23** First read in House and referred to H.J. 155 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Scheduled for hearing
- **2024-02-27** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-28** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 59, NAYS 10 H.J. 429 `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by the President S.J. 461 `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 468 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Delivered to the Governor on 2024-03-05 S.J. 480 `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/82d77c56-5ab8-44f9-aae8-a140af00362d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).