---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise the process for nominating candidates for lieutenant governor."
description: "revise the process for nominating candidates for lieutenant governor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1164"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1164 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Political Parties"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Deibert", "Emery", "Goodwin", "Reisch"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4dbfa999-febe-441a-97c6-8bcc1691d44f"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26126"
source_hash: "01953c57d2d7e6504c94d21a01433a0580087851f79b705c16f47ec4f47d24c8"
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 1164 (2025) — revise the process for nominating candidates for lieutenant governor.

## 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/26126/279121)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26126/283881)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **5–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **45–25** (pass) · lower
- Placed on calendar pursuant to JR 6F-6 — **43–27** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **22–12** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **5–8** (fail) · lower
- Deferred to the 41st legislative day — **8–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Deibert — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Reisch — 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`
- **2025-02-12** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-12** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 8 `committee-failure`
- **2025-02-12** State Affairs Deferred to the 41st legislative day , Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 5
- **2025-02-18** Recalled from committee (Rule 7-7) , Passed, H.J. 304
- **2025-02-18** State Affairs Report out of committee without recommendation , Passed,
- **2025-02-19** Placed on calendar pursuant to JR 6F-6 , Passed, YEAS 43, NAYS 27 H.J. 323
- **2025-02-19** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 45, NAYS 25 H.J. 334 `passage`
- **2025-02-20** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 321 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-03-03** State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 3 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-04** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 22, NAYS 12 S.J. 441 `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 470 `passage`
- **2025-03-06** Signed by the President S.J. 474 `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-10 H.J. 492 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-31** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-31 H.J. 553 `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/4dbfa999-febe-441a-97c6-8bcc1691d44f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).