---
type: "Bill"
title: "create the county and township infrastructure fund for the accounting, safekeeping, and allocation of unobligated rural access infrastructure fund moneys."
description: "create the county and township infrastructure fund for the accounting, safekeeping, and allocation of unobligated rural access infrastructure fund moneys."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 236"
citation: "South Dakota SB 236 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Fund", "Highways and Bridges", "Townships", "Transfer of Moneys"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Overweg", "Rohl", "Van Diepen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-02-04"
last_action: "2026-03-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cde5454b-fd92-4c47-be1d-6fffc16623ea"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/27216"
source_hash: "a2f6051ba66f76d9bc662f3ed545679854b54c41ab3c50048f92f549a32742d5"
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 236 (2026) — create the county and township infrastructure fund for the accounting, safekeeping, and allocation of unobligated rural access infrastructure fund moneys.

## 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/27216/301293)
2. **236A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/303138.pdf)
3. **Senate Local Government Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/27216/303794)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/27216/305650)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **64–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **10–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Overweg — primary (person)
- Rohl — primary (person)
- Van Diepen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-04** First Reading Senate S.J. 180
- **2026-02-05** Referred to Senate Local Government S.J. 199 `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-18** Scheduled for hearing
- **2026-02-18** Local Government Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 236A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-18** Local Government Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0
- **2026-02-18** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2026-02-20** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 340
- **2026-02-23** First read in House and referred to House Local Government H.J. 416 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-26** Scheduled for hearing
- **2026-02-26** Local Government Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 10, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-02** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 64, NAYS 1 H.J. 476
- **2026-03-03** Signed by the President S.J. 448 `passage`
- **2026-03-04** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 516 `passage`
- **2026-03-05** Delivered to the Governor on 2026-03-05 S.J. 477 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-10** Signed by the Governor on 2026-03-10 S.J. 514 `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/cde5454b-fd92-4c47-be1d-6fffc16623ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).