---
type: "Bill"
title: "update terminology related to ambulance operators."
description: "update terminology related to ambulance operators."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 77"
citation: "South Dakota SB 77 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency Medical Services", "Licensure", "Motor Vehicles", "Professions and Occupations", "Public Health and Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Davis", "Rehfeldt"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-17"
last_action: "2025-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c37f7434-bca5-448b-b88b-5472dddac893"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25726"
source_hash: "9f60b25624d56fe090a3a3f5a1570e6bdaba0ab083d993d492b165424e98975c"
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 77 (2025) — update terminology related to ambulance operators.

## 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/25726/275516)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25726/283653)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **35–0** (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`
- **2025-01-29** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-29** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 S.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-29** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, S.J. 1
- **2025-01-30** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 143 `passage`
- **2025-02-03** First read in House and referred to H.J. 172 `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/c37f7434-bca5-448b-b88b-5472dddac893`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).