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

matching current filters

Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 120

include intentionally manipulated images or recordings in the crime of invasion of privacy by recording.

Absent

Passed

64–0

Mar 3, 2022

SB 196

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

Nay

Passed

8–1

Mar 3, 2022

SB 151

revise the automatic removal of certain convictions from a background check record.

Absent

Passed

36–30

Mar 3, 2022

HB 1044

adopt the 2021 edition of the Uniform Plumbing Code, and allow for selective adoption of provisions within the Uniform Plumbing Code by municipalities.

Yea

Passed

67–0

Mar 3, 2022

SB 65

delineate uses for the South Dakota housing opportunity fund. Against party

Nay

Passed

44–23

Mar 3, 2022

SB 56

revise certain provisions relating to the South Dakota Retirement System.

Absent

Passed

65–0

Mar 3, 2022

SB 109

make an appropriation to pay increased costs incurred in the construction of an appropriate regional facility and to declare an emergency. Against party

Nay

Passed

8–1

Mar 3, 2022

SB 43

authorize the Board of Regents to contract for the design, renovation, and construction of an addition for a health sciences center at Black Hills State University–Rapid City, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.

Absent

Passed

58–7

Mar 3, 2022

SB 170

make an appropriation for costs related to forest resiliency and growth in the state and to declare an emergency. Against party

Nay

Passed

8–1

Mar 3, 2022

SB 61

make an appropriation to the Board of Technical Education to support the purchase of simulation equipment for a health sciences clinical simulation center on the campus of Southeast Technical College and to declare an emergency.

Absent

Passed

60–4

Mar 3, 2022