---
type: "Bill"
title: "prohibit a health care provider from restricting or denying a parent or guardian's access to certain medical records and other health information of a minor."
description: "prohibit a health care provider from restricting or denying a parent or guardian's access to certain medical records and other health information of a minor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1061"
citation: "South Dakota HB 1061 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care", "Medical Records", "Parental Control", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Auch", "Aylward", "Baxter", "Garcia", "Greenfield", "Grove", "Howard", "Hughes", "Hunt", "Ismay", "Jensen (Phil)", "Jorgenson", "Ladner", "Manhart", "Mulally", "Nelson", "Nolz", "Odenbach", "Perry", "Peterson (Sue)", "Pischke", "Reder", "Schaefbauer", "Schwans", "Sjaarda", "Soye", "Voita"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82c7981f-1af8-49de-8e85-df6b258acf25"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25877"
source_hash: "19f0853a4c851eb559e66d427a6eab0cedbaf642890c3040d17eff86e12de369"
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 1061 (2025) — prohibit a health care provider from restricting or denying a parent or guardian's access to certain medical records and other health information of a minor.

## 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/25877/275354)
2. **1061A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/278679.pdf)
3. **House Health and Human Services Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25877/279313)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25877/284212)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **12–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **63–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Auch — primary (person)
- Aylward — primary (person)
- Baxter — primary (person)
- Garcia — primary (person)
- Greenfield — primary (person)
- Grove — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Hughes — primary (person)
- Hunt — primary (person)
- Ismay — primary (person)
- Jensen (Phil) — primary (person)
- Jorgenson — primary (person)
- Ladner — primary (person)
- Manhart — primary (person)
- Mulally — primary (person)
- Nelson — primary (person)
- Nolz — primary (person)
- Odenbach — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Peterson (Sue) — primary (person)
- Pischke — primary (person)
- Reder — primary (person)
- Schaefbauer — primary (person)
- Schwans — primary (person)
- Sjaarda — primary (person)
- Soye — primary (person)
- Voita — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16** First read in House and referred to H.J. 28 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-30** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-01-30** Health and Human Services Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 1061A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-30** Health and Human Services Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 1
- **2025-02-04** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 63, NAYS 4 H.J. 187
- **2025-02-05** First Reading Senate S.J. 181
- **2025-02-10** Referred to S.J. 219 `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Scheduled for hearing
- **2025-03-05** Health and Human Services Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2025-03-06** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 471
- **2025-03-10** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 510 `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Signed by the President S.J. 512 `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Delivered to the Governor on 2025-03-12 H.J. 528 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-31** Signed by the Governor on 2025-03-31 H.J. 554 `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/82c7981f-1af8-49de-8e85-df6b258acf25`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).