---
type: "Bill"
title: "provide a special motor vehicle license plate for recipients of the Legion of Merit award."
description: "provide a special motor vehicle license plate for recipients of the Legion of Merit award."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1101"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1101 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Delayed Effective Date", "License Plates", "Motor Vehicles", "Veterans Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Emery", "Kull", "Lesmeister", "Moore", "Nelson (Kameron)", "Shorma", "Stalzer", "Stevens", "Teunissen", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-18"
last_action: "2024-02-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/218698d5-4168-41f4-82fb-f5ca840ad770"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24696"
source_hash: "613f5259a92c02f1501566dbdb737919e99135da41347f27e6c056b2d9776499"
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 1101 (2024) — provide a special motor vehicle license plate for recipients of the Legion of Merit award.

## 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/24696/260296)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24696/264335)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Emery — primary (person)
- Kull — primary (person)
- Lesmeister — primary (person)
- Moore — primary (person)
- Nelson (Kameron) — primary (person)
- Shorma — primary (person)
- Stalzer — primary (person)
- Stevens — primary (person)
- Teunissen — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-18** First read in House and referred to H.J. 84 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-23** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2024-01-23** Transportation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 H.J. 6 `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-23** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, H.J. 6
- **2024-01-24** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 0 H.J. 166 `passage`
- **2024-01-25** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 182 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2024-01-31** Transportation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-31** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2024-02-01** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 31, NAYS 0 S.J. 237 `passage`
- **2024-02-02** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 240 `passage`
- **2024-02-05** Signed by the President S.J. 261 `passage`
- **2024-02-06** Delivered to the Governor on 2024-02-06 H.J. 256 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-13** Signed by the Governor on 2024-02-13 H.J. 314 `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/218698d5-4168-41f4-82fb-f5ca840ad770`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).