R South Dakota Senate · District 34 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Taffy Howard

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Session

Total votes

2,950

all sessions

Attendance

94%

154 missed

Lower than 83% of chamber peers

With party

77%

of cast votes

Lower than 98% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

13%

some cross-party votes

Higher than 94% of chamber peers

Voting record

Breaks with party 22% of the time

Yea

2,081

voted in favor

Nay

659

voted against

Absent

154

missed votes

Total cast

2,950

across all sessions

Crossed party

606

votes against own party

This page

2,950

matching current filters

Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 91

authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide for the design, construction, and equipping of a state veterans cemetery in Minnehaha County, to create a veterans cemetery fund, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.

Yea

Passed

59–0

Mar 5, 2018

SB 76

revise certain provisions regarding voter registration. Against party

Nay

Passed

50–9

Mar 5, 2018

SB 65

revise certain provisions regarding drug deliveries that result in death and to provide a penalty therefor.

Yea

Passed

59–0

Mar 5, 2018

SB 137

revise certain provisions regarding the minimum hunting age.

Yea

Passed

39–20

Mar 5, 2018

SB 214

revise certain provisions regarding legislator salaries. Against party

Nay

Passed

44–15

Mar 5, 2018

SB 24

extend the effective date of certain provisions regarding the recreational use of nonmeandered water.

Absent

Passed

50–3

Mar 1, 2018

HB 1116

revise certain provisions regarding special interest motor vehicle license plates.

Absent

Passed

53–0

Mar 1, 2018

SB 144

revise certain provisions related to party affiliation on voter registration cards.

Absent

Passed

52–0

Mar 1, 2018

SB 174

provide certain assistance to veterans and to revise the distribution of revenue from the alcohol beverage fund.

Yea

Passed

5–0

Mar 1, 2018

HB 1007

require any initiated measure to embrace only one subject.

Absent

Passed

43–10

Mar 1, 2018