---
type: "Bill"
title: "adopt the athletic trainer licensure compact."
description: "adopt the athletic trainer licensure compact."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1149"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1149 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Athletics", "Compacts", "Criminal Background Investigation", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Davis", "Emery", "Goodwin", "Larson", "Pourier", "Rehfeldt", "Uhre-Balk"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2026-01-27"
last_action: "2026-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/845387b5-5d87-4b77-8276-0db6b0640fc8"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26386"
source_hash: "dc47311c33373b112825983f3dade8c5982991f76fdd0ff4d73065e52ef93392"
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 HB 1149 (2026) — adopt the athletic trainer licensure compact.

## 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/26386/297730)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26386/306552)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **59–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **32–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Davis — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Pourier — primary (person)
- Rehfeldt — primary (person)
- Uhre-Balk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-27** First Reading House H.J. 149
- **2026-01-28** Referred to House Health and Human Services H.J. 165 `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-10** Scheduled for hearing
- **2026-02-10** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-10** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2026-02-12** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 59, NAYS 3 H.J. 316 `passage`
- **2026-02-17** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Health and Human Services S.J. 272 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-04** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2026-03-04** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 S.J. 27 `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-04** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, S.J. 27
- **2026-03-05** Remove from Consent Calendar S.J. 481
- **2026-03-09** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 2 S.J. 495 `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 553 `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Signed by the President S.J. 526 `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Delivered to the Governor on 2026-03-12 H.J. 562 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-30** Signed by the Governor on 2026-03-30 H.J. 578 `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/845387b5-5d87-4b77-8276-0db6b0640fc8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).