---
type: "Bill"
title: "limit liability for certain child welfare agency licensees."
description: "limit liability for certain child welfare agency licensees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1293"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1293 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Liability", "Minors"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Davis", "Healy", "Mortenson", "Olson", "Weisgram", "Wheeler"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-02-02"
last_action: "2022-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1b8a782-55f6-4c05-aa89-1accaa17f2cc"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23440"
source_hash: "e8f7eda9322d4fd40fd2ceac36ff5d4ab490b725aa1a69311517d2848df4f169"
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 1293 (2022) — limit liability for certain child welfare agency licensees.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.


## Votes

- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **55–12** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **9–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Davis — primary (person)
- Healy — primary (person)
- Mortenson — primary (person)
- Olson — primary (person)
- Weisgram — primary (person)
- Wheeler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-02** First Reading House H.J. 178
- **2022-02-04** Referred to H.J. 211 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-17** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 3 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-22** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 55, NAYS 12 H.J. 416 `passage`
- **2022-02-23** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 329 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-03-02** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 S.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-02** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, S.J. 1
- **2022-03-07** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 465 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 635 `passage`
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the President S.J. 509 `passage`
- **2022-03-10** Delivered to the Governor on 2022-03-10 H.J. 662 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-28** Signed by the Governor on 2022-03-28 H.J. 688 `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/a1b8a782-55f6-4c05-aa89-1accaa17f2cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).