---
type: "Bill"
title: "make appropriations from the water and environment fund and its revolving fund subfunds for various water and environmental purposes and to declare an emergency."
description: "make appropriations from the water and environment fund and its revolving fund subfunds for various water and environmental purposes and to declare an emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1264"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1264 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriation", "Emergency Clause", "Environmental Cleanup", "Environmental Protection", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Water Management", "Water Quality"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-02-04"
last_action: "2021-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d24cc3a-18da-49f3-b0ca-2e93efa54644"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22056"
source_hash: "0b6b9ce70246a957100f48ff7d20b81febe218446ddab53a25839286089cf1a7"
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 1264 (2021) — make appropriations from the water and environment fund and its revolving fund subfunds for various water and environmental purposes 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/22056/216584)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22056/219983)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **66–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Appropriations — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-04** First Reading House H.J. 209
- **2021-02-16** Referred to H.J. 293 `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2021-02-22** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-23** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 66, NAYS 2 H.J. 361 `passage`
- **2021-02-24** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 340 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Scheduled for hearing S.J. 1
- **2021-03-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2021-03-03** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-08** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 444 `passage`
- **2021-03-09** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 541 `passage`
- **2021-03-10** Delivered to the Governor on 2021-03-10 H.J. 547 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-10** Signed by the President S.J. 470 `passage`
- **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/3d24cc3a-18da-49f3-b0ca-2e93efa54644`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).