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R South Dakota Senate · District 6 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Ernie Otten

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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
Sponsored
274
bills & resolutions
Lower than 83% of chamber peers
Committees
8
assignments
2,196 roll-call votes

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
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2,196
matching current filters
Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 135
revise provisions regarding agritourism liability.
Yea
Passed
63–2
Feb 25, 2022
SB 1
codify legislation enacted in 2021.
Yea
Passed
64–3
Feb 24, 2022
SB 68
revise holiday pay for state employees.
Yea
Passed
61–4
Feb 24, 2022
HB 1047
make an appropriation to the Department of Education to improve and renovate the Cultural Heritage Center and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
67–0
Feb 24, 2022
SB 184
provide for limited elk licenses to landowners. Against party
Nay
Passed
38–27
Feb 24, 2022
SB 101
revise provisions regarding the sale or service of alcoholic beverages by persons under the age of twenty-one.
Yea
Passed
42–23
Feb 24, 2022
HB 1161
create a registration requirement for sober living homes.
Yea
Passed
43–26
Feb 23, 2022
HB 1248
make an appropriation for the erection of the South Dakota Sioux Code Talker Memorial and to declare an emergency.
Absent
Passed
65–3
Feb 23, 2022
HB 1137
make an appropriation for high performance computing and data storage systems at South Dakota State University and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
55–14
Feb 23, 2022
HB 1306
make an appropriation to rural access infrastructure funds and to declare an emergency.
Absent
Passed
65–3
Feb 23, 2022
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