---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise certain provisions regarding public access to voter registration data."
description: "revise certain provisions regarding public access to voter registration data."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1051"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1051 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Executive/Judiciary Request", "Voting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-01-14"
last_action: "2020-02-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/848a1861-3ed5-44fc-ae15-7ad794e70609"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=1051&Session=2020"
source_hash: "aeab4854f19ce33a48cbdc37f16f74dec4aaabce7c71980e5ef57e4a253bdb44"
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 1051 (2020) — revise certain provisions regarding public access to voter registration data.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1051P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=1051)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=HB1051ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=1051)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2020 — **28–6** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **3–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **3–3** (fail) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **11–2** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass - 2020 — **4–3** (pass) · upper
- Deferred to another day - 2020 — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **44–22** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Local Government — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-14** First Reading House H.J. 11
- **2020-01-24** Referred to House Local Government H.J. 58 `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-04** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-04** Local Government Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 11, NAYS 2. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-05** House of Representatives Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 44, NAYS 22. H.J. 183 `passage`
- **2020-02-06** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Local Government S.J. 157 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-10** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-10** Local Government Do Pass, Failed, YEAS 3, NAYS 2. `committee-failure`
- **2020-02-10** Local Government Do Pass, Failed, YEAS 3, NAYS 3. `committee-failure`
- **2020-02-10** Local Government Deferred to another day, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0.
- **2020-02-12** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-12** Local Government Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 4, NAYS 3. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-13** Senate Deferred to another day, Passed S.J. 233
- **2020-02-18** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 28, NAYS 6. S.J. 244 `passage`
- **2020-02-19** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 323
- **2020-02-20** Signed by the President S.J. 297
- **2020-02-21** Delivered to the Governor on February 21, 2020 H.J. 347 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-27** Signed by the Governor on February 26, 2020 H.J. 418 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/848a1861-3ed5-44fc-ae15-7ad794e70609`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).