---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise certain provisions regarding the Unified Judicial System."
description: "revise certain provisions regarding the Unified Judicial System."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1070"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1070 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts and Judiciary", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Technical Corrections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-20"
last_action: "2021-02-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82ed1486-9216-452e-8c75-85d0b5fd94d8"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/21809"
source_hash: "925b26bd67ab83bfa27ec6e776280d98bbc2f7ba1731a38d0078fd8c1652ae1d"
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 1070 (2021) — revise certain provisions regarding the Unified Judicial System.

## 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/21809/212084)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/21809/216781)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **4–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Judiciary — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-20** First Reading House H.J. 52
- **2021-01-21** Referred to H.J. 59 `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-25** Scheduled for hearing
- **2021-01-25** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-25** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2021-01-26** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 70, NAYS 0 H.J. 130 `passage`
- **2021-01-27** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 125 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-04** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2021-02-04** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 4, NAYS 0 S.J. 3 `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-04** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, S.J. 3
- **2021-02-05** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 31, NAYS 0 S.J. 201 `passage`
- **2021-02-08** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 247 `passage`
- **2021-02-09** Signed by the President S.J. 229 `passage`
- **2021-02-10** Delivered to the Governor on 2021-02-10 H.J. 270 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-16** Signed by the Governor on 2021-02-16 H.J. 293 `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/82ed1486-9216-452e-8c75-85d0b5fd94d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).