Sen. Taffy Howard
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
Sponsored
420
bills & resolutions
Higher than 80% of chamber peers
Committees
6
assignments
2,950 roll-call votes
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 189
make an appropriation to pay increased costs incurred in the development and construction of a low-intensity residential treatment facility and to declare an emergency. Against party
Nay
Passed
6–2
Feb 28, 2022
HB 1071
make an appropriation for maintaining the drainage of Lake Andes and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
61–1
Feb 28, 2022
SCR 605
Celebrating the South Dakota Division of the Izaak Walton League of America for its ideals and accomplishments during one hundred years of conservation leadership. Against party
Nay
Passed
55–7
Feb 28, 2022
SB 102
create the medicaid expansion fund and to provide for the receipt of monies received as a result of expanding medicaid eligibility.
Absent
Passed
7–1
Feb 28, 2022
SB 63
revise the appropriation for road improvements to the State Veterans Cemetery, to provide for ordinary operations of the cemetery, and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
61–0
Feb 28, 2022
SB 49
authorize the Department of the Military to construct a cold storage building located in Rapid City, South Dakota, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
62–0
Feb 28, 2022
SB 154
revise criteria for the South Dakota freedom scholarship. Against party
Nay
Passed
38–24
Feb 28, 2022
SB 169
establish a means for certain Department of Corrections inmates to earn credit against fines or costs ordered by the sentencing court.
Yea
Passed
59–3
Feb 28, 2022
SB 84
make an appropriation for the design, renovation, and construction of a multi-purpose facility at the Cottonwood Field Station and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
8–1
Feb 28, 2022
SB 53
authorize the Department of Corrections to purchase certain real property and contract for design of a community work center for offenders committed to the Department of Corrections, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.
Absent
Passed
6–2
Feb 28, 2022
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