Administration of elections; requiring Secretary of the State Election Board to direct all counties to conduct post-election audits for specified elections. Effective date.

Title changed from 'SENATE BILL 147' to 'ENGROSSED SENATE BILL NO. 147' to reflect House floor version status

Added House sponsors Hall and Newton to the bill authorship line

Removed original Senate-only authorship line showing only Pederson

Reformatted header to indicate 'HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION' instead of 'COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE'

Bill title format changed from 'SENATE BILL NO. 147' to 'SENATE BILL 147'.

Senate sponsor attribution changed from 'Pederson and Bullard' to just 'Pederson'.

House sponsor attribution changed from 'Hall' to 'Newton'.

Document tracking numbers and dates updated from Req. No. 13557 dated 04/17/25 to Req. No. 1767 dated 2/25/2025.

Header information changed from 'Enrolled Senate' to 'Committee Substitute for Engrossed Senate Bill No. 147', indicating the bill has been amended by the House committee.

Page numbering and formatting were reorganized, with the original page 2 and 3 content moved to new page 1 and 2.

Minor whitespace and line break adjustments were made throughout the text, but no substantive policy language was altered.

Added a 'SUBJECT' line specifying 'Post-election audits' for clarity.

Updated legislative dates to reflect final passage (Senate May 14, House May 5) and added Governor's signature page.

Removed draft markings and formatting from the Engrossed version.

Clarified the definition of 'post-election audit' to explicitly state it must be conducted under the Secretary's previously promulgated policies, rules, or procedures.

Changed the title page to reflect that Representative Hall is now the principal House author instead of Representative Newton, with Newton listed as a coauthor.

Reordered the bill sections so that the effective date moved from Section 4 to Section 2, and removed a duplicate Section 3 that was incorrectly numbered.

Authorship information was updated to remove Representative Newton as principal House author and add Representative Hall as principal author, while adding Newton as a coauthor.

New sections were added clarifying that the Secretary may promulgate policies, rules, and procedures to implement audit requirements.

The definition of 'post-election audit' was clarified to specify it is a manual or electronic examination of a limited number of ballots conducted only at the Secretary's direction and subject to their policies.

The requirement for conducting audits was clarified to specify audits must follow elections held on dates set forth in specific sections (1-101, 1-102, 1-103, and 20-101).

The effective date section was renumbered from Section 2 to Section 4, maintaining the November 1, 2025 effective date.