HB1012revise and repeal provisions allowing probation for contempt of a custody or visitation decree.Do PassYea
HB1013clarify the purposes permitted for certain offenders to operate a motor vehicle.Do PassYea
HB1140permit a court to impose as a condition of probation, or parole in certain circumstances, treatment at a nonprofit entity awarded an alternative care program grant.Do Pass AmendedYea
HB1176clarify bond or pre-trial release upon sobriety program participation.Do Pass AmendedYea
HB1176clarify bond or pre-trial release upon sobriety program participation.Placed on calendar pursuant to JR 6F-6Yea
HB1176clarify bond or pre-trial release upon sobriety program participation.Report out of committee without recommendation as amendedYea
2025 Regular Session4 votes
HB1135Provide opportunities for treatment courts for South Dakotans, create a workgroup to study rehabilitation programs, and declare an emergency.Do Pass AmendedYea
SB64Revise provisions related to the establishment of an initial parole date.Do Pass AmendedYea
SB124Establish the Incarceration Task Force.Do Pass AmendedYea
2024 Regular Session1 vote
SB173provide a landowner-on-own-land license for antlerless elk.Do Pass AmendedNay
2023 Regular Session9 votes
HB1174provide for appropriate civil commitment of certain persons.Do Pass AmendedYea
SB4modify a court's authority to commit a habitual juvenile offender to the Department of Corrections.Concurred in amendmentsNay
SB47revise exceptions to the imposition of a Class 2 misdemeanor when no other penalty is provided by statute.Do PassNay
SB89increase the daily maximum award for the alternative care program administered by the Unified Judicial System.Do PassYea
SB89increase the daily maximum award for the alternative care program administered by the Unified Judicial System.Do PassYea
SB146limit parole for violent offenders.Do PassNay
SB146limit parole for violent offenders.Concurred in amendmentsNay
SB176modify certain requirements for removal from the sex offender registry.Do PassYea
SB201provide treatment for the ingestion of controlled substances.Do Pass AmendedYea
2022 Regular Session11 votes
HB1160clarify bond or pre-trial release upon sobriety program participation.Do Pass AmendedYea
SB32authorize 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.Do Pass AmendedYea
SB103make an appropriation to support the teen court grant program and to declare an emergency.Do PassYea
SB103make an appropriation to support the teen court grant program and to declare an emergency.Conference Committee Report adoptedYea
SB151revise the automatic removal of certain convictions from a background check record.Do Pass AmendedYea
SB151revise the automatic removal of certain convictions from a background check record.Veto overrideYea
SB159exempt any person suffering from a severe mental illness from capital punishment.Do Pass AmendedYea
SB172revise provisions regarding eligibility for parole for certain persons sentenced to life imprisonment.Do Pass AmendedYea
SB172revise provisions regarding eligibility for parole for certain persons sentenced to life imprisonment.ReconsideredYea
SB198establish an interim committee regarding alternative programming for juvenile offenders.Do Pass AmendedNay
SB198establish an interim committee regarding alternative programming for juvenile offenders.Conference Committee report not adopted, no committee appointedNay
2021 Regular Session7 votes
SB15revise the voting requirements necessary for the board to grant or deny parole or recommend clemency.Do PassYea
SB16revise the requirements of setting discretionary parole dates by the board.Do PassYea
SB98limit the application of the death penalty.Do PassYea
SB141revise the automatic removal of certain convictions from a background check record.Do Pass AmendedYea
SB143revise the penalty for the ingestion of certain controlled substances.Do PassYea
SB146revise certain provisions regarding eligibility for parole for certain persons sentenced to life imprisonment.Do Pass AmendedYea
SB169revise the time requirement for the automatic removal of speeding violations from a background check record.TabledYeatabling motion
2020 Regular Session6 votes
HB1195provide for the dismissal of charges against pregnant women for certain controlled substance offenses under certain circumstances.Do Pass AmendedYea
HB1206revise certain provisions regarding the commitment of a delinquent child to the Department of Corrections.Do Pass AmendedNay
SB6revise certain conditions under which presumptive probation may be applied.Do Pass AmendedNay
SB69revise the penalty for the misuse of emblem specialty plates on motor vehicles.Do PassYea
SB69revise the penalty for the misuse of emblem specialty plates on motor vehicles.Do PassYea
SB95modify certain provisions regarding the repayment of restitution.Do PassNay
2019 Regular Session7 votes
HB1005authorize a hearing panel of the Board of Pardons and Paroles to make clemency recommendations.Do PassYea
SB65provide for the construction, renovation, improvement, remodeling, alteration, addition to and repairing of courthouses, jails, incarceration reduction facilities, and other necessary buildings.Do Pass AmendedNay
SB65provide for the construction, renovation, improvement, remodeling, alteration, addition to and repairing of courthouses, jails, incarceration reduction facilities, and other necessary buildings.ReconsideredNay
SB67revise provisions regarding commitment of a child adjudicated as delinquent.Do Pass AmendedNay
SB67revise provisions regarding commitment of a child adjudicated as delinquent.ReconsideredNay
SCR7Directing the Executive Board to create a fifteen-member task force to study and make legislative proposals regarding alternatives to imprisonment for those convicted of the crime of ingestion of controlled substances.TabledYeatabling motion
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).