republic-os/legislation/us/states/sd/2023/sb-55.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	prohibit ranked-choice voting.	prohibit ranked-choice voting.	us/states/sd	South Dakota Legislature	2023	SB 55	South Dakota SB 55 (2023)	bill	Elections Voting	enacted	Blare Bolin Callies Castleberry Chaffee Crabtree Deutsch Drury Fitzgerald Hunhoff Jensen (Kevin) Jensen (Phil) Klumb Krohmer Kull Maher Mills Moore Novstrup Otten (Ernie) Otten (Herman) Perry Reimer Shorma Stalzer Tordsen Wiik Zikmund	2	13	4	2023-01-11	2023-03-27	openstates	ocd-bill/1fd3ea25-8545-40c2-8d35-8649bcd11355	https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23968	88a2fa829c56ed34c853c791e2ad6ae674773fd0384e2c9e911d59dae5e7e335	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-sd

South Dakota SB 55 (2023) — prohibit ranked-choice voting.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do Pass — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass — 31–4 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass — 63–5 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 12–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Blare — primary (person)
• Bolin — primary (person)
• Callies — primary (person)
• Castleberry — primary (person)
• Chaffee — primary (person)
• Crabtree — primary (person)
• Deutsch — primary (person)
• Drury — primary (person)
• Fitzgerald — primary (person)
• Hunhoff — primary (person)
• Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
• Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
• Klumb — primary (person)
• Krohmer — primary (person)
• Kull — primary (person)
• Maher — primary (person)
• Mills — primary (person)
• Moore — primary (person)
• Novstrup — primary (person)
• Otten (Ernie) — primary (person)
• Otten (Herman) — primary (person)
• Perry — primary (person)
• Reimer — primary (person)
• Shorma — primary (person)
• Stalzer — primary (person)
• Tordsen — primary (person)
• Wiik — primary (person)
• Zikmund — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-11 First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 29 introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-02-01 Scheduled for hearing
• 2023-02-01 State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 1 committee-passage
• 2023-02-02 Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 31, NAYS 4 S.J. 180 passage
• 2023-02-03 First read in House and referred to H.J. 223 introduction, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-02-27 Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
• 2023-02-27 State Affairs Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 1 H.J. 7 committee-passage
• 2023-02-28 House of Representatives Deferred to another day , Passed, H.J. 416
• 2023-03-01 House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 63, NAYS 5 H.J. 437 passage
• 2023-03-02 Signed by the President S.J. 417 passage
• 2023-03-06 Signed by the Speaker H.J. 489 passage
• 2023-03-07 Delivered to the Governor on 2023-03-07 S.J. 442 executive-receipt
• 2023-03-27 Signed by the Governor on 2023-03-27 S.J. 495 executive-signature, executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1fd3ea25-8545-40c2-8d35-8649bcd11355. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).