---
type: "Bill"
title: "make an appropriation to the Office of the Secretary of State for voter roll maintenance, ballot machines, and election security."
description: "make an appropriation to the Office of the Secretary of State for voter roll maintenance, ballot machines, and election security."
jurisdiction: "us/states/sd"
legislature: "South Dakota Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 161"
citation: "South Dakota SB 161 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriation", "Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chaffee", "Hoffman", "Jensen (Kevin)", "Johnson", "Mills", "Olson", "Perry", "Wiik", "Zikmund"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-26"
last_action: "2023-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef39061d-2022-4698-af6f-ca937e64569f"
source_url: "https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24288"
source_hash: "5db75e1c6b265cd28f12661c5bd3079bdbdfef5ce80faa70a8b687ec0ee443d8"
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 161 (2023) — make an appropriation to the Office of the Secretary of State for voter roll maintenance, ballot machines, and election security.

## 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/24288/246793)
2. **161A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/249368.pdf)
3. **Joint Appropriations Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24288/250244)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/24288/250903)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **32–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass Amended — **18–0** (pass) · legislature
- Do Pass Amended — **68–0** (pass) · lower
- Referred to — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chaffee — primary (person)
- Hoffman — primary (person)
- Jensen (Kevin) — primary (person)
- Johnson — primary (person)
- Mills — primary (person)
- Olson — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)
- Wiik — primary (person)
- Zikmund — 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`
- **2023-02-03** Scheduled for hearing
- **2023-02-03** Referred to , Passed, YEAS 6, NAYS 0 `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-24** Scheduled for hearing J.J. 1
- **2023-02-24** Committee on Appropriations Motion to amend , Passed, J.J. 17 Amendment 161A `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-24** Committee on Appropriations Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 18, NAYS 0 J.J. 17
- **2023-02-27** Senate Do Pass , Passed, YEAS 32, NAYS 2 S.J. 351 `passage`
- **2023-02-28** First read in House and referral to committee waived pursuant to JR 6D-1 H.J. 400 `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-01** House of Representatives Do Pass Amended , Passed, YEAS 68, NAYS 0 H.J. 443
- **2023-03-06** Signed by the President S.J. 430 `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/ef39061d-2022-4698-af6f-ca937e64569f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Dakota legislature records).