---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise procurement for highway construction contracts."
description: "revise procurement for highway construction contracts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 26"
citation: "South Dakota SB 26 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Executive/Judiciary Request", "Procurement of Public Improvements", "Public Property", "Purchases and Contracts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2026-01-13"
last_action: "2026-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c125a4e5-fab4-439c-996c-82861eb00e7b"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26777"
source_hash: "824adf73840ace64fd8216232525cb392892d445d19713f29ef50b3e499c362b"
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 26 (2026) — revise procurement for highway construction contracts.

## 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/26777/292101)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26777/304660)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **53–14** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **31–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Transportation — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-13** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Transportation S.J. 17 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-21** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2026-01-21** Transportation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 S.J. 3 `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-21** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, S.J. 3
- **2026-01-22** Remove from Consent Calendar S.J. 83
- **2026-01-23** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 31, NAYS 3 S.J. 94 `passage`
- **2026-01-26** First read in House and referred to House Transportation H.J. 137 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-19** Scheduled for hearing
- **2026-02-19** Transportation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 10, NAYS 0 H.J. 19 `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-19** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, H.J. 19
- **2026-02-20** Remove from Consent Calendar H.J. 387
- **2026-02-23** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 53, NAYS 14 H.J. 415 `passage`
- **2026-02-24** Signed by the President S.J. 388 `passage`
- **2026-02-25** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 449 `passage`
- **2026-02-26** Delivered to the Governor on 2026-02-26 S.J. 410 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-04** Signed by the Governor on 2026-03-04 S.J. 452 `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/c125a4e5-fab4-439c-996c-82861eb00e7b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).