Total votes
372
all sessions
Attendance
97%
7 missed
Lower than 99% of chamber peers
With party
90%
of cast votes
Bipartisan score
6%
crosses aisle rarely
Sponsored
59
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
0
assignments
372 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
327
voted in favor
Nay
35
voted against
Absent
7
missed votes
Total cast
372
across all sessions
Crossed party
33
votes against own party
This page
372
matching current filters
Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
HB 1115
revise the qualifications of Game, Fish and Parks commissioners. Bipartisan
Nay
Failed
3–4
Mar 2, 2021
HB 1228
revise provisions regarding industrial hemp and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
6–1
Mar 2, 2021
HB 1254
prohibit preferential treatment in higher education employment practices.
Yea
Passed
7–0
Mar 2, 2021
HJR 5003
Proposing and submitting to the voters at the next primary election a new section to Article XI of the Constitution of the State of South Dakota, relating to a three-fifths vote requirement for certain initiated or Legislature-proposed constitutional amendments and initiated or Legislature-referred measures. Against party
Nay
Passed
18–16
Mar 2, 2021
SB 191
provide an appropriation for a study regarding the future renovation and expansion of the Meat Laboratory on the campus of South Dakota State University and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
34–0
Mar 2, 2021
SB 186
make an appropriation for behavioral and mental health service support in crisis stabilization and to declare an emergency.
Yea
Passed
33–1
Mar 1, 2021
HB 1085
redefine the criteria for classifying land as agricultural for tax purposes.
Yea
Passed
28–6
Mar 1, 2021
HB 1110
prohibit the performance of abortions due to Down syndrome and to provide a penalty therefor.
Yea
Passed
5–0
Mar 1, 2021
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