---
type: "Bill"
title: "establish post-election audits."
description: "establish post-election audits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 160"
citation: "South Dakota SB 160 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Election Verification", "Elections", "Promulgation of Rules", "Voting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chaffee", "Crabtree", "Davis", "Emery", "Fitzgerald", "Hoffman", "Jensen (Kevin)", "Mortenson", "Perry", "Peterson (Drew)", "Pourier", "Reed", "Reisch", "Rohl", "Stalzer", "Tordsen", "Venhuizen", "Wheeler"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-26"
last_action: "2023-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7207965-f6d0-41e9-93f5-2fc9f2f1df60"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23961"
source_hash: "8f41e5e15332036cea3336f59021d0d246e9f086551f5319f37c44596f7d6dc4"
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 160 (2023) — establish post-election audits.

## 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/23961/246786)
2. **160A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/248901.pdf)
3. **160B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/250260.pdf)
4. **House State Affairs Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23961/250384)
5. **Senate State Affairs Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23961/248977)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/23961/251138)

## Votes

- Concurred in amendments — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **68–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass Amended — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chaffee — primary (person)
- Crabtree — primary (person)
- Davis — primary (person)
- Emery — primary (person)
- Fitzgerald — primary (person)
- Hoffman — primary (person)
- Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
- Mortenson — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Peterson (Drew) — primary (person)
- Pourier — primary (person)
- Reed — primary (person)
- Reisch — primary (person)
- Rohl — primary (person)
- Stalzer — primary (person)
- Tordsen — primary (person)
- Venhuizen — primary (person)
- Wheeler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-26** First Reading Senate S.J. 126
- **2023-01-30** Referred to S.J. 137 `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Scheduled for hearing
- **2023-02-08** State Affairs Motion to amend , Passed, Amendment 160A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-08** State Affairs Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 9, NAYS 0
- **2023-02-13** Senate Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 0 S.J. 253
- **2023-02-14** First read in House and referred to H.J. 292 `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-27** Scheduled for hearing H.J. 1
- **2023-02-27** State Affairs Motion to amend , Passed, H.J. 7 Amendment 160B `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-27** State Affairs Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 13, NAYS 0 H.J. 7
- **2023-03-01** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 0 H.J. 430
- **2023-03-06** Senate Concurred in amendments , Passed, YEAS 34, NAYS 1 S.J. 424
- **2023-03-07** Signed by the President S.J. 447 `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Signed by the Speaker H.J. 506 `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Delivered to the Governor on 2023-03-08 S.J. 461 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-27** Signed by the Governor on 2023-03-27 S.J. 495 `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/b7207965-f6d0-41e9-93f5-2fc9f2f1df60`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).