---
type: "Bill"
title: "revise certain provisions regarding the retention of motor vehicle title documents by the Department of Revenue."
description: "revise certain provisions regarding the retention of motor vehicle title documents by the Department of Revenue."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 15"
citation: "South Dakota SB 15 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Executive/Judiciary Request", "Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-14"
last_action: "2020-02-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/287e0cd7-98f6-4ef2-8750-8f049b6dea16"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?Bill=15&Session=2020"
source_hash: "ea668efd69f6dd015ae0f96501a66778cb6e47f4c1ecaf623356fc9abf02beef"
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 15 (2020) — revise certain provisions regarding the retention of motor vehicle title documents by the Department of Revenue.

## 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=SB15P.html&Session=2020&Version=Introduced&Bill=15)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Legislative_Session/Bills/Bill.aspx?File=SB15ENR.html&Session=2020&Version=Enrolled&Bill=15)

## Votes

- Do Pass - 2020 — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- - 2020SB 14, SB 15, SB 62, SB 14, SB 15, SB 62 — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass - 2020 — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- - 2020HB 1116, SB 14, SB 15, HB 1116, SB 14, SB 15, HB 1077, HB 1138 — **69–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Transportation — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-14** First read in Senate and referred to Senate Transportation S.J. 11 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-01-24** Transportation Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 7, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-24** Certified uncontested, placed on consent, Passed
- **2020-01-27** Senate Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 33, NAYS 0. S.J. 91 `passage`
- **2020-01-28** First read in House and referred to House Transportation H.J. 77 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11** Scheduled for hearing
- **2020-02-11** Transportation Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 12, NAYS 0. `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-11** Certified uncontested, placed on consent
- **2020-02-12** House of Representatives Do Pass, Passed, YEAS 69, NAYS 0. H.J. 270 `passage`
- **2020-02-13** Signed by the President S.J. 233
- **2020-02-18** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 304
- **2020-02-19** Delivered to the Governor on February 19, 2020 S.J. 253 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-25** Signed by the Governor on February 24, 2020 S.J. 329 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/287e0cd7-98f6-4ef2-8750-8f049b6dea16`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).