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Nick Fosness on Water rights protections

6 recorded votes on bills tagged with this issue

2026 Regular Session6 votes
  • HB1103require that annual withdrawal of groundwater from any groundwater source may not exceed the annual recharge of water to the groundwater source.Do Pass AmendedNay
  • SB37make appropriations for water and environmental purposes and to declare an emergency.Do PassYea
  • SB88clarify the procedure for a potential condemnor to examine real property absent the property owner's permission.Do PassYea
  • SB231create the water infrastructure development fund, to provide an appropriation, to provide for the awarding of grants and loans from the fund for certain rural water projects and to declare an emergency.Do PassYea
  • SCR606encouraging the review and approval of water rights applications and future use reservations from the Missouri River.Concurred in Resolution as AmendedYea
  • SCR607supporting congressional authorization for, and federal participation in, major rural water supply projects identified by the South Dakota Association of Rural Water Systems.Concurred in ResolutionYea

Votes are shown as cast; we don’t score or label positions. Amendment-adoption motions are omitted, and tabling motions are flagged (a Yea there was a vote to kill the bill).