---
type: "Bill"
title: "provide price transparency for health care costs."
description: "provide price transparency for health care costs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1263"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1263 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Delayed Effective Date", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Health Care", "Insurance", "Promulgation of Rules"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-04"
last_action: "2021-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dec0b5cc-5fa3-4727-9fe7-6f08e34a7c49"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22033"
source_hash: "b35e300d45332ff7e56b90ac8d11ce931d366f121b1c45a7930653148f6c498a"
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 1263 (2021) — provide price transparency for health care costs.

## 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/22033/216509)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22033/219355)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Health and Human Services — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-04** First read in House and referred to H.J. 212 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** Scheduled for hearing
- **2021-02-18** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-18** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2021-02-22** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 0 H.J. 332 `passage`
- **2021-02-23** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 330 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2021-03-01** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0 S.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-01** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed, S.J. 1
- **2021-03-03** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 394 `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/dec0b5cc-5fa3-4727-9fe7-6f08e34a7c49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).