---
type: "Bill"
title: "allow individualized investigative treatments for patients with life-threatening or debilitating diseases or conditions."
description: "allow individualized investigative treatments for patients with life-threatening or debilitating diseases or conditions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1139"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1139 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Insurance", "Public Health and Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andera", "Auch", "Aylward", "Baxter", "Emery", "Heinemann", "Jordan", "Perry", "Randolph", "Reder", "Schaefbauer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/610f8b64-d84d-43c3-a779-74d32042a7ea"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25942"
source_hash: "9c75f1599710bb6361dd00e28f6a00d52485a4333686bdda8843419902339f86"
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 1139 (2025) — allow individualized investigative treatments for patients with life-threatening or debilitating diseases or conditions.

## 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/25942/278670)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25942/284214)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Andera — primary (person)
- Auch — primary (person)
- Aylward — primary (person)
- Baxter — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Heinemann — primary (person)
- Jordan — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Randolph — primary (person)
- Reder — primary (person)
- Schaefbauer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** First Reading House H.J. 154
- **2025-02-03** Referred to H.J. 171 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-11** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-11** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-02-12** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 0 H.J. 269 `passage`
- **2025-02-13** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 267 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-03-05** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-03-06** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 471 `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 510 `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Signed by the President S.J. 512 `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-12 H.J. 528 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-31** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-31 H.J. 554 `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/610f8b64-d84d-43c3-a779-74d32042a7ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).