---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise provisions regarding challenges to candidate nominating petitions."
description: "revise provisions regarding challenges to candidate nominating petitions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1157"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1157 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Political Party", "State Affairs and Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beal", "Gosch", "Greenfield (Brock)", "Greenfield (Lana)", "Haugaard", "Healy", "Heinert", "Jensen (Phil)", "Kennedy", "Langer", "Livermont", "Marty", "McCleerey", "Mulally", "Pischke", "Qualm", "Rasmussen", "Smith (Jamie)", "Willadsen"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-25"
last_action: "2019-03-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2535bb3-7d10-4203-8c71-48ef2d6c6e2e"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=1157&Session=2019"
source_hash: "52cb3e04f92febaa79f04192594ce8b1036209e1d7bb05097e1cc1368a13d8d8"
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 1157 (2019) — revise provisions regarding challenges to candidate nominating petitions.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Printed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1157P.htm&Session=2019&Version=Printed&Bill=1157)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1157ENR.htm&Session=2019&Version=Enrolled&Bill=1157)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2019 — **68–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2019 — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2019 — **8–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2019 — **32–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beal — primary (person)
- Gosch — primary (person)
- Greenfield (Brock) — primary (person)
- Greenfield (Lana) — primary (person)
- Haugaard — primary (person)
- Healy — primary (person)
- Heinert — primary (person)
- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
- Kennedy — primary (person)
- Langer — primary (person)
- Livermont — primary (person)
- Marty — primary (person)
- McCleerey — primary (person)
- Mulally — primary (person)
- Pischke — primary (person)
- Qualm — primary (person)
- Rasmussen — primary (person)
- Smith (Jamie) — primary (person)
- Willadsen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-25** First Reading House H.J. 204
- **2019-01-28** Referred to House State Affairs H.J. 219 `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-02-11** State Affairs Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0. H.J. 350 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-11** Placed on consent, Passed
- **2019-02-12** House of Representatives Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 0. H.J. 372 `passage`
- **2019-02-13** First read in Senate and referred to Senate State Affairs S.J. 368 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-02-22** State Affairs Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 1. S.J. 466 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-25** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 512
- **2019-02-26** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 1. S.J. 525 `passage`
- **2019-02-27** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 579
- **2019-02-28** Signed by the President S.J. 556
- **2019-03-04** Delivered to the Governor on March 04, 2019 H.J. 596 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-06** Signed by the Governor on March 5, 2019 H.J. 650 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2535bb3-7d10-4203-8c71-48ef2d6c6e2e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).