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Laws · South Dakota · HB1038

HB1038: Allow the Public Utilities Commission to assess actual costs to data centers that are customers of public utilities.

South Dakota, 2026 Regular Session. Signed, March 30, 2026.

Last verified

Status Signed Signed, .

Official summary

No official summary is on file yet. The full text is on the legislature's page, linked below.

Measure Bill.

Number HB1038, as its own legislature prints it. The record files it under H.B. 1038, which is the form this page's address and every export use. The two forms are the same measure. The record normalizes a number so a reader can search one way across fifty states; the legislature's own form is the one printed here.

Sponsors Commerce and Energy

Subjects Administrative Procedure, Court Costs, Executive/Judiciary Request, Fund, Public Utilities and Carriers, Data Centers The legislature's own list.

Official page sdlegislature.gov/#/Session/Bill/26923. Found through LegiScan (bill 2066869), whose data is CC BY 4.0; the citation is the legislature's own page.

What happened, and when

  1. March 30, 2026 Signed

    H.B. 1038 was signed. sdlegislature.gov primary source [1] The official action text: Signed by the Governor on March 30, 2026 H.J. 579.

  2. March 9, 2026 Passed second chamber

    H.B. 1038 passed the Senate. sdlegislature.gov primary source [1] The official action text: Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 2. S.J. 494.

  3. March 5, 2026 In committee

    H.B. 1038 went to committee in the Senate. sdlegislature.gov primary source [1] The official action text: Commerce and Energy Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 2..

  4. February 3, 2026 In committee

    H.B. 1038 went to committee in the Senate. sdlegislature.gov primary source [1] The official action text: First read in Senate and referred to Senate Commerce and Energy S.J. 170.

  5. February 2, 2026 Passed first chamber

    H.B. 1038 passed the House. sdlegislature.gov primary source [1] The official action text: House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 60, NAYS 5. H.J. 196.

  6. January 28, 2026 In committee

    H.B. 1038 went to committee in the House. sdlegislature.gov primary source [1] The official action text: Commerce and Energy Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0. H.J. 11.

  7. January 13, 2026 In committee

    H.B. 1038 went to committee in the House. sdlegislature.gov primary source [1] The official action text: First read in House and referred to House Commerce and Energy H.J. 11.

  8. January 13, 2026 Introduced

    H.B. 1038 was introduced in the House. sdlegislature.gov primary source [1] The official action text: First read in House and referred to House Commerce and Energy H.J. 11.

Newest first. A stage is never overwritten; each entry carries the source it rests on. The status at the top is derived from the newest entry. The action text in Researcher mode is the legislature's own wording.

Sources

  1. HB1038 on the legislature's site sdlegislature.gov

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