---
type: "Bill"
title: "authorize certain retailers to offer quantity discounts or cash discounts for the purchase of alcoholic beverages."
description: "authorize certain retailers to offer quantity discounts or cash discounts for the purchase of alcoholic beverages."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 53"
citation: "South Dakota SB 53 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverages", "Licenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rounds", "Schoenbeck"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c630d82-9f4a-44d5-a7bc-3b169f37211b"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=53&Session=2019"
source_hash: "36bc4876aa82fd43dc193a5ef084b3185fde1c16b9608c1a71c832888a710287"
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 SB 53 (2019) — authorize certain retailers to offer quantity discounts or cash discounts for the purchase of alcoholic beverages.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment 53ya** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Amendment.aspx?Amend=amd53ya.htm)
2. **Printed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB53P.htm&Session=2019&Version=Printed&Bill=53)
3. **Senate Commerce and Energy** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB53SCO.htm&Session=2019&Version=Senate Commerce and Energy&Bill=53)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB53ENR.htm&Session=2019&Version=Enrolled&Bill=53)

## Votes

- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2019 — **7–5** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended - 2019 — **58–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rounds — primary (person)
- Schoenbeck — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-16** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Commerce and Energy S.J. 106 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-01-22** Commerce and Energy Motion to amend, Passed Amendment 53ya `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-01-22** Commerce and Energy Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-22** Commerce and Energy Title amended, Passed S.J. 135 Amendment 53yta
- **2019-01-24** Senate Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 0. S.J. 170 `passage`
- **2019-01-25** First read in House and referred to House Commerce and Energy H.J. 208 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Scheduled for hearing
- **2019-02-20** Commerce and Energy Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 5. H.J. 447 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-21** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 473
- **2019-02-22** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 486
- **2019-02-25** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 543
- **2019-02-26** House of Representatives Deferred to another day, Passed H.J. 557
- **2019-02-27** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 58, NAYS 8. H.J. 574 `passage`
- **2019-02-28** Signed by the President S.J. 556
- **2019-03-04** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 622
- **2019-03-05** Delivered to the Governor on March 05, 2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-11** Signed by the Governor on March 11, 2019 S.J. 678 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c630d82-9f4a-44d5-a7bc-3b169f37211b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).