---
type: "Bill"
title: "provide special motor vehicle license plates for advanced life support personnel and emergency medical technicians."
description: "provide special motor vehicle license plates for advanced life support personnel and emergency medical technicians."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1120"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1120 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Delayed Effective Date", "Emergency Medical Services", "License Plates", "Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blare", "Crabtree", "Diedrich", "Duba", "Emery", "Gross", "Jensen (Phil)", "Koth", "Larson", "Massie", "Moore", "Mulder", "Perry", "Pinnow", "Pourier", "Reisch", "Shorma", "Stevens", "Teunissen", "Tobin", "Tordsen", "Weisgram", "Wittman", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-19"
last_action: "2024-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24416f1d-9073-4fa8-a9fb-988714e0575b"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24804"
source_hash: "b036bbbc9b89e0c2de946d73e220aaae570ea32ee2bf7549a1f9efdae9e0d748"
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 1120 (2024) — provide special motor vehicle license plates for advanced life support personnel and emergency medical technicians.

## 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/24804/260772)
2. **1120B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/262952.pdf)
3. **House Transportation Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24804/263651)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24804/266590)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blare — primary (person)
- Crabtree — primary (person)
- Diedrich — primary (person)
- Duba — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Gross — primary (person)
- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
- Koth — primary (person)
- Larson — primary (person)
- Massie — primary (person)
- Moore — primary (person)
- Mulder — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Pinnow — primary (person)
- Pourier — primary (person)
- Reisch — primary (person)
- Shorma — primary (person)
- Stevens — primary (person)
- Teunissen — primary (person)
- Tobin — primary (person)
- Tordsen — primary (person)
- Weisgram — primary (person)
- Wittman — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-19** First read in House and referred to H.J. 94 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2024-01-30** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2024-01-30** Transportation Motion to amend , Passed, H.J. 12 Amendment 1120B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2024-01-30** Transportation Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0 H.J. 12
- **2024-02-01** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 67, NAYS 0 H.J. 228
- **2024-02-02** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 249 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** Scheduled for hearing
- **2024-02-23** Transportation Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-23** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2024-02-26** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 0 S.J. 412
- **2024-02-27** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 417 `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Signed by the President S.J. 448 `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Delivered to the Governor on 2024-02-29 H.J. 436 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by the Governor on 2024-03-07 H.J. 498 `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/24416f1d-9073-4fa8-a9fb-988714e0575b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).