---
type: "Bill"
title: "establish a criminal background check requirement for multistate licensure under the social work licensure compact."
description: "establish a criminal background check requirement for multistate licensure under the social work licensure compact."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1028"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1028 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Procedure", "Compacts", "Criminal Background Investigation", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Licensure", "Professions and Occupations", "Social Workers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2026-01-13"
last_action: "2026-02-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0aa7680e-dc11-4581-9e62-223eed785630"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26669"
source_hash: "894c9aedc64eb952d8c166a4a8feac5a975cccd9db624d39e1ac6704dac16502"
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 1028 (2026) — establish a criminal background check requirement for multistate licensure under the social work licensure compact.

## 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/26669/292108)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26669/301436)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **57–11** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Health and Human Services — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-13** First read in House and referred to House Health and Human Services H.J. 12 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-20** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2026-01-20** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-20** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2026-01-21** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 57, NAYS 11 H.J. 105 `passage`
- **2026-01-22** First Reading Senate S.J. 83
- **2026-01-23** Referred to Senate Health and Human Services S.J. 93 `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-02** Scheduled for hearing
- **2026-02-02** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 S.J. 7 `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-02** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, S.J. 7
- **2026-02-03** Remove from Consent Calendar S.J. 171
- **2026-02-04** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 186 `passage`
- **2026-02-05** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 240 `passage`
- **2026-02-06** Signed by the President S.J. 215 `passage`
- **2026-02-09** Delivered to the Governor on 2026-02-09 H.J. 254 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-02-17** Signed by the Governor on 2026-02-17 H.J. 326 `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/0aa7680e-dc11-4581-9e62-223eed785630`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).