---
type: "Bill"
title: "make an appropriation for the payment of extraordinary litigation expenses and to declare an emergency."
description: "make an appropriation for the payment of extraordinary litigation expenses and to declare an emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1026"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1026 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriation", "Emergency Clause", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Litigation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c756f897-19a3-4ae0-b18e-f61585db56c7"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22009"
source_hash: "8fe37571af396d35db2704d98477ce9efffffb1bc7e88688f0a0c71d821b1c04"
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 1026 (2021) — make an appropriation for the payment of extraordinary litigation expenses and to declare an emergency.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22009/210425)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22009/219409)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **8–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **68–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **32–3** (pass) · upper
- Referred to — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Appropriations — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12** First Reading House H.J. 10
- **2021-01-19** Referred to H.J. 48 `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Scheduled for hearing
- **2021-02-08** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-10** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 0 H.J. 276 `passage`
- **2021-02-11** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 250 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2021-02-25** Referred to , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 S.J. 1 `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2021-03-02** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-03** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 3 S.J. 402 `passage`
- **2021-03-04** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 502 `passage`
- **2021-03-08** Signed by the President S.J. 445 `passage`
- **2021-03-09** Delivered to the Governor on 2021-03-09 H.J. 530 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-29** Signed by the Governor on 2021-03-29 H.J. 570 `executive-signature, executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c756f897-19a3-4ae0-b18e-f61585db56c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).