---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise certain provisions regarding life and health insurance insolvencies."
description: "revise certain provisions regarding life and health insurance insolvencies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1018"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1018 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Executive/Judiciary Request", "Health Maintenance Organizations", "Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-14"
last_action: "2020-02-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19cf6eab-63ef-4c78-93cd-27eed241d60b"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=1018&Session=2020"
source_hash: "a564c8ef175dd372dc49771ff773cf406493ec5da3263e5f5c2e5ca56223031e"
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 1018 (2020) — revise certain provisions regarding life and health insurance insolvencies.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1018P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=1018)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1018ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=1018)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2020 — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2020 — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **66–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Commerce and Energy — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-14** First Reading House H.J. 11
- **2020-01-15** Referred to House Commerce and Energy H.J. 19 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-22** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-01-22** Commerce and Energy Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-23** House of Representatives Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 66, NAYS 0. H.J. 52 `passage`
- **2020-01-24** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Commerce and Energy S.J. 76 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-04** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-04** Commerce and Energy Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 1. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-05** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 0. S.J. 148 `passage`
- **2020-02-06** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 221
- **2020-02-07** Signed by the President S.J. 169
- **2020-02-10** Delivered to the Governor on February 10, 2020 H.J. 236 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-13** Signed by the Governor on February 12, 2020 H.J. 277 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19cf6eab-63ef-4c78-93cd-27eed241d60b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).