---
type: "Bill"
title: "require property owners to receive notification of property tax reduction programs."
description: "require property owners to receive notification of property tax reduction programs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1279"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1279 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Property", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bartels", "Barthel", "Beal", "Bordeaux", "Borglum", "Castleberry", "Chase", "Dennert", "Deutsch", "Diedrich", "Duba", "Duhamel", "Finck", "Goodwin", "Hunhoff", "Johns", "Johnson (David)", "Kennedy", "Kolbeck", "Koth", "Lesmeister", "McCleerey", "Olson", "Otten (Ernie)", "Otten (Herman)", "Partridge", "Peterson (Kent)", "Reed", "Saba", "Smith (Jamie)", "Soholt", "Wangsness", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-06"
last_action: "2020-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/08d29f8e-e888-4ce8-b94b-72543720e326"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=1279&Session=2020"
source_hash: "a0347143467332c0e3229146eaf5b43126dbf630c9511c3504194e410feadecf"
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 1279 (2020) — require property owners to receive notification of property tax reduction programs.

## 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=HB1279P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=1279)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1279ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=1279)

## Votes

- - 2020HB 1125, HB 1279, SB 69, HB 1279, SB 69, HB 1125 — **66–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2020 — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- - 2020HB 1124, HB 1244, HB 1279, HB 1124, HB 1279, HB 1244 — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bartels — primary (person)
- Barthel — primary (person)
- Beal — primary (person)
- Bordeaux — primary (person)
- Borglum — primary (person)
- Castleberry — primary (person)
- Chase — primary (person)
- Dennert — primary (person)
- Deutsch — primary (person)
- Diedrich — primary (person)
- Duba — primary (person)
- Duhamel — primary (person)
- Finck — primary (person)
- Goodwin — primary (person)
- Hunhoff — primary (person)
- Johns — primary (person)
- Johnson (David) — primary (person)
- Kennedy — primary (person)
- Kolbeck — primary (person)
- Koth — primary (person)
- Lesmeister — primary (person)
- McCleerey — primary (person)
- Olson — primary (person)
- Otten (Ernie) — primary (person)
- Otten (Herman) — primary (person)
- Partridge — primary (person)
- Peterson (Kent) — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Saba — primary (person)
- Smith (Jamie) — primary (person)
- Soholt — primary (person)
- Wangsness — primary (person)
- Zikmund — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-06** First Reading House H.J. 210
- **2020-02-11** Referred to House Local Government H.J. 257 `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-20** Local Government Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-20** Certified uncontested, placed on consent
- **2020-02-21** House of Representatives Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 66, NAYS 0. H.J. 349 `passage`
- **2020-02-24** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Taxation S.J. 322 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-03-02** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-03-02** Taxation Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-02** Certified uncontested, placed on consent
- **2020-03-03** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0. S.J. 403 `passage`
- **2020-03-04** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 477
- **2020-03-05** Signed by the President S.J. 445
- **2020-03-09** Delivered to the Governor on March 09, 2020 H.J. 502 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Governor on March 11, 2020 H.J. 557 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/08d29f8e-e888-4ce8-b94b-72543720e326`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).