R South Dakota Senate · District 6 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Ernie Otten

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Session

Total votes

2,196

all sessions

Attendance

93%

135 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

89%

of cast votes

Higher than 85% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

6%

crosses aisle rarely

Lower than 89% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

1,723

voted in favor

Nay

320

voted against

Absent

135

missed votes

Total cast

2,196

across all sessions

Crossed party

206

votes against own party

This page

2,196

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

HB 1195

continue enhanced and transitional rates for community services and support providers.

Nay

Failed

4–5

Feb 21, 2023

SB 172

make an appropriation for design costs related to the health services center at Black Hills State University–Rapid City, and to declare an emergency.

Yea

Passed

16–0

Feb 21, 2023

HB 1167

annually adjust the rate for community-based providers to one hundred percent of methodology.

Nay

Passed

5–4

Feb 21, 2023

HB 1195

continue enhanced and transitional rates for community services and support providers.

Yea

Passed

5–4

Feb 21, 2023

HB 1170

establish mandatory sentences for certain driving while under the influence violations.

Yea

Passed

56–12

Feb 21, 2023

SB 150

add provisions regarding construction and maintenance of livestock pipelines on highways.

Yea

Passed

64–4

Feb 21, 2023

HB 1137

reduce certain gross receipts tax rates and a use tax rate, and to repeal a conditional reduction of certain gross receipts tax rates.

Yea

Passed

8–1

Feb 21, 2023

SB 33

amend an appropriation for the revised construction costs of the Mineral Industries Building at the School of Mines and Technology, and to declare an emergency.

Yea

Passed

17–0

Feb 21, 2023

HB 1020

provide for the sale of certain surplus real estate in Rapid City to Pennington County and to provide for the deposit of the proceeds.

Yea

Passed

10–7

Feb 21, 2023

HB 1043

make an exemption from certain property taxation for owner-occupied single-family dwellings.

Yea

Passed

9–0

Feb 21, 2023