---
type: "Bill"
title: "transfer funds to the health care trust fund and to declare an emergency."
description: "transfer funds to the health care trust fund and to declare an emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1273"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1273 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency Clause", "Health Care", "Transfer of Funds"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-02-04"
last_action: "2021-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2d9077f-b84f-45b4-b2f3-297ab5cc7779"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22474"
source_hash: "5e8e49169042589617d9307cb1d85197687b765fe9b15666b24ba12e298d60b6"
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 1273 (2021) — transfer funds to the health care trust fund 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/22474/216598)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22474/219950)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **7–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **30–5** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **59–8** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **7–0** (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 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-23** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 59, NAYS 8 H.J. 363 `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
- **2021-03-02** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-03** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 393
- **2021-03-04** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 417
- **2021-03-08** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 30, NAYS 5 S.J. 435 `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/d2d9077f-b84f-45b4-b2f3-297ab5cc7779`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).