---
type: "Bill"
title: "make an appropriation for grants to support the purchase of personal protective equipment by volunteer fire departments and to declare an emergency."
description: "make an appropriation for grants to support the purchase of personal protective equipment by volunteer fire departments and to declare an emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 136"
citation: "South Dakota SB 136 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriation", "Emergency Clause", "Firefighters", "Grants", "Uncodified Acts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emery", "Jensen (Kevin)", "Kolbeck (Steve)", "Massie", "Mehlhaff", "Muckey", "Nelson", "Perry", "Pischke", "Sjaarda", "Voight", "Wipf", "Wittman", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-01-27"
last_action: "2026-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ca70ef2-8f2d-46e1-b161-f680be47a9a3"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/27086"
source_hash: "18701d669060f4be721a7ab57aaebdb8111e468d18ab7c5e6f7d89a0c829daf4"
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 136 (2026) — make an appropriation for grants to support the purchase of personal protective equipment by volunteer fire departments and to declare an emergency.

## 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/27086/297616)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/27086/306288)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **16–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Emery — primary (person)
- Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
- Kolbeck (Steve) — primary (person)
- Massie — primary (person)
- Mehlhaff — primary (person)
- Muckey — primary (person)
- Nelson — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Pischke — primary (person)
- Sjaarda — primary (person)
- Voight — primary (person)
- Wipf — primary (person)
- Wittman — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-27** First read in Senate and referred to Joint Committee on Appropriations S.J. 120 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-20** Scheduled for hearing J.J. 1
- **2026-02-26** Scheduled for hearing J.J. 1
- **2026-02-26** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 16, NAYS 0 J.J. 38 `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-02** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 0 S.J. 428 `passage`
- **2026-03-03** First read in House and referral to committee waived pursuant to JR 6D-1 H.J. 485 `introduction, reading-1`
- **2026-03-04** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 67, NAYS 0 H.J. 511 `passage`
- **2026-03-05** Signed by the President S.J. 485 `passage`
- **2026-03-09** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 543 `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Delivered to the Governor on 2026-03-10 S.J. 510 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-30** Signed by the Governor on 2026-03-30 S.J. 549 `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/5ca70ef2-8f2d-46e1-b161-f680be47a9a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).