---
type: "Bill"
title: "facilitate legislative oversight of settlement agreements involving a state entity or official."
description: "facilitate legislative oversight of settlement agreements involving a state entity or official."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1041"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1041 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislative Oversight", "Litigation", "State Affairs and Government", "State Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Duba", "Gosch", "Nesiba", "Otten (Ernie)", "Rusch"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1274d9f8-032b-4a4b-9da3-521034fd5c32"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22804"
source_hash: "54df29ac39115196cc45cbc1a125e42edd1e9a2f49954c307bf844e032f34799"
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 1041 (2022) — facilitate legislative oversight of settlement agreements involving a state entity or official.

## Version chain

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

1. **1041A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/234148.pdf)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **64–6** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- Concurred in amendments — **66–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Duba — primary (person)
- Gosch — primary (person)
- Nesiba — primary (person)
- Otten (Ernie) — primary (person)
- Rusch — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** First Reading House H.J. 7
- **2022-01-12** Referred to H.J. 21 `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-21** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2022-01-21** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 0 H.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-24** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 64, NAYS 6 H.J. 108 `passage`
- **2022-01-25** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 105 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-23** State Affairs Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 1041A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-23** State Affairs Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0
- **2022-02-25** Senate Deferred to another day , Passed, S.J. 398
- **2022-02-28** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 1 S.J. 407
- **2022-03-02** House of Representatives Concurred in amendments , Passed, YEAS 66, NAYS 3 H.J. 516
- **2022-03-03** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 589 `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President S.J. 479 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Delivered to the Governor on 2022-03-08 H.J. 626 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-28** Signed by the Governor on 2022-03-28 H.J. 688 `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/1274d9f8-032b-4a4b-9da3-521034fd5c32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).