republic-os/legislation/us/states/sd/2019/hb-1068.md

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Bill	authorize the Transportation Commission to promulgate rules to allow certain motor vehicles to follow another motor vehicle on a state highway more closely than otherwise permitted by law.	authorize the Transportation Commission to promulgate rules to allow certain motor vehicles to follow another motor vehicle on a state highway more closely than otherwise permitted by law.	us/states/sd	South Dakota Legislature	2019	HB 1068	South Dakota HB 1068 (2019)	bill	Administrative Rules Highways and Bridges Motor Vehicles Public Health and Safety	enacted	Blare Chase Duvall Ewing Finck Lesmeister Monroe Nesiba Novstrup Peterson (Kent) Qualm Schoenbeck Schoenfish Zikmund	2	13	4	2019-01-23	2019-03-04	openstates	ocd-bill/55f4e099-0f5c-4136-b798-e66af6855167	https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=1068&Session=2019	c946528d3d5e3c9356ac95504c1ba2c0999ef42859026b1488be92e93a921dfe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-sd

South Dakota HB 1068 (2019) — authorize the Transportation Commission to promulgate rules to allow certain motor vehicles to follow another motor vehicle on a state highway more closely than otherwise permitted by law.

Version chain

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

1. Printed (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do Pass - 2019 — 56–12 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass - 2019HB 1059, HB 1068, HB 1072, HB 1077, HB 1124, HB 1092, SB 124 — 29–0 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass - 2019 — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass - 2019 — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Blare — primary (person)
• Chase — primary (person)
• Duvall — primary (person)
• Ewing — primary (person)
• Finck — primary (person)
• Lesmeister — primary (person)
• Monroe — primary (person)
• Nesiba — primary (person)
• Novstrup — primary (person)
• Peterson (Kent) — primary (person)
• Qualm — primary (person)
• Schoenbeck — primary (person)
• Schoenfish — primary (person)
• Zikmund — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-23 First read in House and referred to House Transportation H.J. 159 introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2019-01-31 Scheduled for hearing
• 2019-01-31 Transportation Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0. H.J. 278 committee-passage
• 2019-02-05 House of Representatives Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 56, NAYS 12. H.J. 299 passage
• 2019-02-06 First read in Senate and referred to Senate Transportation S.J. 280 introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2019-02-13 Scheduled for hearing
• 2019-02-13 Transportation Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 5, NAYS 0. S.J. 362 committee-passage
• 2019-02-13 Placed on consent, Passed
• 2019-02-14 Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 29, NAYS 0. S.J. 389 passage
• 2019-02-19 Signed by the Speaker H.J. 443
• 2019-02-26 Signed by the President S.J. 527
• 2019-02-27 Delivered to the Governor on February 27, 2019 H.J. 562 executive-receipt
• 2019-03-04 Signed by the Governor on March 1, 2019 H.J. 596 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/55f4e099-0f5c-4136-b798-e66af6855167. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).