Total votes
2,969
all sessions
Attendance
91%
221 missed
Lower than 97% of chamber peers
With party
96%
of cast votes
Higher than 77% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
5%
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
HB 1043
include lithium in the definition of precious metal for purposes of the minerals severance tax, and to set the tax rate for lithium severed in this state.
Yea
Passed
57–8
Jan 22, 2024
HB 1086
establish an enhanced penalty for probationers intentionally causing contact with bodily fluids or human waste with a Unified Judicial System employee.
Yea
Passed
63–2
Jan 22, 2024
HB 1049
authorize the Board of Regents to accept and use easement proceeds for the purposes authorized by the 2022 Session Laws, chapter 198.
Yea
Passed
47–18
Jan 22, 2024
HB 1044
update the United States census survey used to ascertain and adjust the salary of members of the Legislature.
Nay
Passed
11–2
Jan 19, 2024
HB 1073
keep interest earned on incarceration construction fund moneys in the same fund.
Yea
Passed
67–0
Jan 19, 2024
HB 1057
create the Commission on Indigent Legal Services and Office of Indigent Legal Services, to make an appropriation for reimbursing county indigent legal services, and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
13–0
Jan 19, 2024
HCR 6003
To create the One Hundredth Session Planning Committee of the South Dakota Legislature.
Yea
Passed
13–0
Jan 19, 2024
HB 1069
permit the display of campaign signs in municipalities in conjunction with the beginning of absentee voting.
Yea
Passed
13–0
Jan 19, 2024
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