---
type: "Bill"
title: "repeal reporting and testifying requirements to the committees on health and human services regarding nursing facilities and long-term healthcare needs."
description: "repeal reporting and testifying requirements to the committees on health and human services regarding nursing facilities and long-term healthcare needs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 76"
citation: "South Dakota SB 76 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Nursing Homes", "Public Health and Safety", "Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Davis", "Rehfeldt"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-17"
last_action: "2025-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3c5c3b6-c0fd-4269-be9a-37b159638c35"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25588"
source_hash: "bc2943e54bb7ef4cf8b846e41f525486ac598bef513ffa06dea3f10c4144a0b2"
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 76 (2025) — repeal reporting and testifying requirements to the committees on health and human services regarding nursing facilities and long-term healthcare needs.

## 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/25588/275515)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25588/283651)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Davis — primary (person)
- Rehfeldt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-17** First Reading Senate S.J. 58
- **2025-01-21** Referred to S.J. 63 `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-24** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-24** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-24** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-01-27** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 102 `passage`
- **2025-01-28** First read in House and referred to H.J. 134 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-27** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-03-03** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 1 H.J. 436 `passage`
- **2025-03-04** Signed by the President S.J. 443 `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 470 `passage`
- **2025-03-06** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-06 S.J. 465 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-13** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-13 S.J. 529 `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/b3c5c3b6-c0fd-4269-be9a-37b159638c35`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).