---
type: "Bill"
title: "permit certain municipalities to elect aldermen at large."
description: "permit certain municipalities to elect aldermen at large."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1076"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1076 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Municipal Government", "Voting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aylward", "Bartels", "Breitling", "Chaffee", "Dennert", "Duvall", "Gosch", "Hoffman (Charlie)", "Koth", "Lesmeister", "Reimer", "St. John", "Weisgram", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-18"
last_action: "2022-02-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6423bee-69c9-4e70-88e0-aedca2ae910f"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22669"
source_hash: "7b7f6f9208395df6f5f24ebddce8a8f2a020e31baa10be5717b4ef81ce30a5f2"
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 1076 (2022) — permit certain municipalities to elect aldermen at large.

## Version chain

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

1. **1076A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/228066.pdf)
2. **1076B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/232257.pdf)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended — **9–4** (pass) · lower
- Motion to amend — **12–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **33–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **51–19** (pass) · lower
- Concurred in amendments — **62–6** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **5–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aylward — primary (person)
- Bartels — primary (person)
- Breitling — primary (person)
- Chaffee — primary (person)
- Dennert — primary (person)
- Duvall — primary (person)
- Gosch — primary (person)
- Hoffman (Charlie) — primary (person)
- Koth — primary (person)
- Lesmeister — primary (person)
- Reimer — primary (person)
- St. John — primary (person)
- Weisgram — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-18** First read in House and referred to H.J. 34 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-01-20** Local Government Motion to amend , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 1 Amendment 1076A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2022-01-20** Local Government Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 4
- **2022-01-24** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 51, NAYS 19 H.J. 107
- **2022-01-25** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 105 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-02** Local Government Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03** Senate Motion to amend , Passed, S.J. 175 Amendment 1076B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-03** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 2 S.J. 176
- **2022-02-07** House of Representatives Concurred in amendments , Passed, YEAS 62, NAYS 6 H.J. 221
- **2022-02-08** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 240 `passage`
- **2022-02-09** Signed by the President S.J. 227 `passage`
- **2022-02-10** Delivered to the Governor on 2022-02-10 H.J. 256 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-02-15** Signed by the Governor on 2022-02-15 H.J. 290 `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/b6423bee-69c9-4e70-88e0-aedca2ae910f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).