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%

153 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

153

missed votes

Total cast

2,950

across all sessions

Crossed party

606

votes against own party

This page

2,950

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

HCR 6014

Urging the federal government to fulfill treaty obligations by fully funding the Oglala and Rosebud Sioux Tribe Departments of Public Safety for the public safety crisis on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Sioux Reservations. Against party

Nay

Passed

58–8

Mar 7, 2022

SB 32

authorize the Department of Corrections to purchase certain real property, construct a community work center for offenders committed to the Department of Corrections, to make an appropriation therefor, transfer funds from the budget reserve fund, and to declare an emergency. Bipartisan

Nay

Passed

38–28

Mar 7, 2022

SB 196

make an appropriation to provide grants for certain residential alternative care programs and to declare an emergency. Against party

Nay

Passed

59–7

Mar 7, 2022

SB 97

authorize the Board of Regents to acquire the incubator building located on the campus of South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, to contract for the design and renovation thereof, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency. Against party

Nay

Passed

52–14

Mar 7, 2022

SB 159

exempt any person suffering from a severe mental illness from capital punishment.

Nay

Failed

24–41

Mar 7, 2022

SB 175

make an appropriation to the Department of Game, Fish and Parks for building a shooting range in western South Dakota and to declare an emergency. Against party

Nay

Passed

36–30

Mar 7, 2022

SB 130

authorize the Board of Regents to acquire property, contract for the design and construction of the Dakota State University Applied Research Lab, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency. Against party

Nay

Passed

54–9

Mar 7, 2022

SB 175

make an appropriation to the Department of Game, Fish and Parks for building a shooting range in western South Dakota and to declare an emergency. Bipartisan

Nay

Passed

32–34

Mar 7, 2022

SB 103

make an appropriation to support the teen court grant program and to declare an emergency. Against party

Nay

Passed

59–7

Mar 7, 2022

SCR 608

To conduct an interim study examining local jails and opportunities for collaboration with state correctional plans.

Yea

Passed

65–1

Mar 7, 2022