---
type: "Bill"
title: "require that notice of a county's canvass, post-election audit, and testing of automatic tabulating equipment be posted to the secretary of state's website."
description: "require that notice of a county's canvass, post-election audit, and testing of automatic tabulating equipment be posted to the secretary of state's website."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1127"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1127 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Election Verification", "Elections", "Voting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fitzgerald", "Hulse", "Perry", "Reimer", "Walburg"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82e468ba-8e66-4ae4-a833-28237ddbb630"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25992"
source_hash: "38f9936c96aae5f32063fd2520be3a7a14fbc7c0a4f59c58b67019153909a1be"
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 1127 (2025) — require that notice of a county's canvass, post-election audit, and testing of automatic tabulating equipment be posted to the secretary of state's website.

## 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/25992/278282)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25992/283838)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **43–24** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **12–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Fitzgerald — primary (person)
- Hulse — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Reimer — primary (person)
- Walburg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** First read in House and referred to H.J. 144 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-02-04** Local Government Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-05** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 43, NAYS 24 H.J. 206 `passage`
- **2025-02-06** First Reading Senate S.J. 196
- **2025-02-10** Referred to S.J. 219 `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-03-03** Local Government Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-03** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-03-04** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 35, NAYS 0 S.J. 434 `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 470 `passage`
- **2025-03-06** Signed by the President S.J. 474 `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-10 H.J. 492 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-31** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-31 H.J. 553 `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/82e468ba-8e66-4ae4-a833-28237ddbb630`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).