---
type: "Bill"
title: "provide a penalty for the failure to complete timely audits by certain entities."
description: "provide a penalty for the failure to complete timely audits by certain entities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1178"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1178 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Audit", "Counties", "Local Government", "Municipal Government", "Newspapers", "Public Fiscal Administration", "School Districts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cronin", "Haverly", "Hunhoff", "Johnson", "Lake", "Peters", "Peterson (Kent)", "Schoenfish", "Steinhauer", "Sutton", "Wismer"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-01-24"
last_action: "2018-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e67f7055-7577-47bd-8ce8-87bf0fad8910"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=1178&Session=2018"
source_hash: "7c5c0bcaada0da6accd06da2d24fac51e77f35226ab8f59611a006e558b65e45"
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 1178 (2018) — provide a penalty for the failure to complete timely audits by certain entities.

## Version chain

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

1. **House Government Operations and Audit** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1178HGO.htm&Session=2018&Version=House Government Operations and Audit&Bill=1178)
2. **Printed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1178P.htm&Session=2018&Version=Printed&Bill=1178)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1178ENR.htm&Session=2018&Version=Enrolled&Bill=1178)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended - 2018 — **4–0** (pass) · legislature
- Do Pass Amended - 2018 — **64–0** (pass) · legislature
- Do Pass - 2018HB 1163, HB 1168, HB 1183, HB 1178 — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
- Do Pass - 2018 — **6–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cronin — primary (person)
- Haverly — primary (person)
- Hunhoff — primary (person)
- Johnson — primary (person)
- Lake — primary (person)
- Peters — primary (person)
- Peterson (Kent) — primary (person)
- Schoenfish — primary (person)
- Steinhauer — primary (person)
- Sutton — primary (person)
- Wismer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-24** First read in House and referred to House Government Operations and Audit H.J. 179 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13** Scheduled for hearing
- **2018-02-13** Government Operations and Audit Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 1178wa `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-13** Government Operations and Audit Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 4, NAYS 0. H.J. 447 `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-20** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 64, NAYS 0. H.J. 494 `passage`
- **2018-02-21** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Local Government S.J. 527 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Scheduled for hearing
- **2018-02-26** Local Government Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0. S.J. 592 `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Placed on consent, Passed
- **2018-02-27** Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0. S.J. 616 `passage`
- **2018-02-28** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 653
- **2018-03-05** Signed by the President S.J. 704
- **2018-03-06** Delivered to the Governor on March 06, 2018 H.J. 701 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Governor on March 7, 2018 H.J. 740 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e67f7055-7577-47bd-8ce8-87bf0fad8910`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).