HB 1160 Went Down in the Senate: South Dakota’s MMOC Repeal Bill Fails After Smoke-Out

HB 1160 Went Down in the Senate: South Dakota’s MMOC Repeal Bill Fails After Smoke-Out

By Jason Karimi | WeedPress

March 11, 2026

South Dakota’s effort to repeal the Medical Marijuana Oversight Committee has now stalled in the Senate. HB 1160 was first killed in Senate Health and Human Services on March 4, when the committee voted 4–3 to defer it to the 41st legislative day. 

That should have ended the bill. But it did not. In the House, HB 1160 had already survived the same kind of procedural resistance. After being deferred to the 41st legislative day in House committee, Rep. Tim Goodwin moved to place it on the calendar, and that motion passed 40–27. The House then passed HB 1160 on second reading by a 41–26 vote on February 23. https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/Journal/303888.pdf?Year=2026

The same fight played out in the Senate. The live legislative board shows HB 1160 was smoke-out eligible and that the motion to smoke it out passed on March 5. 

But revival is not the same thing as victory. On March 9, the full Senate read HB 1160 a second time and rejected it. The official Senate journal records the vote at 15 yeas, 19 nays, with one excused. 

The House was formally notified of that outcome as well. The House journal for March 10 states that HB 1160 “was lost on second reading and final passage” in the Senate. 

So where things stand now is straightforward: the Senate smoke-out succeeded procedurally, but HB 1160 still failed substantively. The repeal bill made it out of legislative limbo, reached the Senate floor, and then lost. As of March 11, 2026, that means the push to abolish the MMOC board is over for this bill unless lawmakers try again through some new vehicle or in a future session. That last point is an inference from the journals and bill status rather than a separately announced legislative action