Total votes
2,969
all sessions
Attendance
91%
221 missed
Lower than 99% of chamber peers
With party
96%
of cast votes
Higher than 76% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
3%
crosses aisle rarely
Near the chamber average
Sponsored
461
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
0
assignments
2,969 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
2,263
voted in favor
Nay
401
voted against
Absent
221
missed votes
Total cast
2,969
across all sessions
Crossed party
101
votes against own party
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 128
revise certain provisions related to news media coverage of high school activities.
Yea
Passed
64–2
Mar 8, 2021
SB 156
authorize the Board of Regents to contract for the construction of a Mineral Industry Building and the demolition of the old Mineral Industry Building on the campus of South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
56–10
Mar 8, 2021
SB 130
make an appropriation for the enhancement of South Dakota and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
65–2
Mar 8, 2021
SB 33
make an appropriation for certain costs related to the commissioning of the USS Pierre and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
52–14
Mar 8, 2021
SB 192
provide an appropriation for the renovation and upgrading of the South Dakota State University Cottonwood Field Station and to declare an emergency.
Nay
Passed
53–12
Mar 8, 2021
SB 54
make an appropriation to build a bison visitors center in Custer State Park and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
52–13
Mar 8, 2021
SB 162
appropriate funds for airport route restoration, business development, and air service marketing and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
45–21
Mar 8, 2021
HJR 5003
Proposing and submitting to the voters at the next primary election a new section to Article XI of the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, relating to a three-fifths vote requirement for certain initiated or Legislature-proposed constitutional amendments and initiated or Legislature-referred measures.
Nay
Passed
49–17
Mar 4, 2021
SB 97
modify provisions regarding the State-Tribal Relations Committee.
Nay
Passed
41–26
Mar 4, 2021
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