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

7%

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

208

votes against own party

This page

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SB 117

revise the gross receipts tax on certain food.

Yea

Passed

44–24

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

Yea

Failed

30–37

Mar 7, 2022

SB 155

make an appropriation for programs that assist victims of domestic violence, abuse, and neglect and to declare an emergency.

Yea

Passed

55–13

Mar 7, 2022

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.

Yea

Passed

60–8

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

Yea

Passed

39–29

Mar 7, 2022

SB 196

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

Yea

Passed

60–8

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.

Yea

Passed

53–15

Mar 7, 2022

SB 159

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

Nay

Failed

24–43

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

38–30

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.

Absent

Passed

55–9

Mar 7, 2022