---
type: "Bill"
title: "provide for the remote witnessing of certain legal instruments."
description: "provide for the remote witnessing of certain legal instruments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 107"
citation: "South Dakota SB 107 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Oaths and Acknowledgments", "Telecommunications"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Diedrich", "Mortenson", "Rusch", "Schoenbeck", "Stevens", "Wheeler"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-25"
last_action: "2022-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/486d2cb9-9221-46cf-8a77-9a9a92dae1ac"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22947"
source_hash: "c8013ed4fa7a8c4bb24b36f270b179144bc35f7614a413e8e58980e0b9e26ae7"
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 107 (2022) — provide for the remote witnessing of certain legal instruments.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- Do Pass — **8–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **58–9** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Diedrich — primary (person)
- Mortenson — primary (person)
- Rusch — primary (person)
- Schoenbeck — primary (person)
- Stevens — primary (person)
- Wheeler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-25** First read in Senate and referred to S.J. 104 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** Scheduled for hearing
- **2022-02-01** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0 `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-01** Certified uncontested, placed on consent , Passed,
- **2022-02-02** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 163 `passage`
- **2022-02-03** First Reading House H.J. 196
- **2022-02-15** Referred to H.J. 325 `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2022-03-02** Judiciary Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 8, NAYS 3 H.J. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-03** House of Representatives Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 58, NAYS 9 H.J. 585 `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President S.J. 479 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 635 `passage`
- **2022-03-09** Delivered to the Governor on 2022-03-09 S.J. 495 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-28** Signed by the Governor on 2022-03-28 S.J. 544 `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/486d2cb9-9221-46cf-8a77-9a9a92dae1ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).