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 recorded
2,969
across all sessions
Crossed party
101
votes against own party
Matching
2,969
matching current filters
Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 170
revise certain provisions regarding school district capital outlay funds.
Yea
Passed
61–2
Mar 4, 2020
HB 1187
make an appropriation to upgrade the state radio infrastructure system and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
63–0
Mar 4, 2020
HB 1046
authorize the Board of Regents to contract for the design, renovation of, and addition to, the Devereaux Library on the campus of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and to make an appropriation therefor.
Yea
Passed
46–17
Mar 4, 2020
SB 174
revise the purposes for which a school district's capital outlay fund may be used.
Yea
Passed
46–17
Mar 4, 2020
HCR 6020
Denouncing the National Education Association's recent policy to support "the fundamental right to abortion."
Yea
Passed
43–17
Mar 4, 2020
HCR 6020
Denouncing the National Education Association's recent policy to support "the fundamental right to abortion."
Nay
Passed
51–10
Mar 4, 2020
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