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Kevin D. Jensen

State Senate · District 16

Kevin D. Jensen

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Pro-resident voting record on data center bills

Sided with residents on 100% of votes across 11 data center bills.

Voting record

On 2026-session data center bills · Senate record

HB 1038Voted For

allow the Public Utilities Commission to assess actual costs to data centers that are customers of public utilities.

SB 127Voted to Save

limit nuisances caused by data centers.

SB 128Voted to Save

update provisions related to certain large-use customers of utilities.

SB 135Voted For

protect residents from increased utility costs and utility shortages caused by data centers and clarify authority to regulate data centers.

SB 232Voted to Save

impose a one-year moratorium on the construction or expansion of hyperscale data centers.

SB 234Voted to Kill

modify provisions pertaining to the purchasing of goods and services related to data center operations.

SB 235Voted to Kill

protect residents from increased utility costs and utility shortages caused by data centers, to clarify authority to regulate data centers, and to modify provisions pertaining to the purchasing of goods and services by a data center.

SB 239Voted Against

modify provisions relating to the reinvestment payment program, and relating to the purchasing of goods and services used by projects approved for the reinvestment payment program.

Campaign money

Money is a signal, never a position. A flag below means a donor matched a category. It is not a finding that anything improper happened.

$3,313in reported receipts

Jensen For Senate

Flagged contributions to their own committee

  • BUtility, power and energy interests$200
Flagged total$200

Flagged donors, largest first

  • Steve Willard $200 [B]
Every itemised contribution on file (9)
Jaci Vandentop$1,000
BNSF Railpac PO Box 961039 Fort Wirth , TX 76161 FEC$500
(UNITEMIZED - gifts of $100 or less; no donor names required by SDCL 12-27-24(11))$394
Midcontinent Communications South Dakota Political Action Committee$250
South Dakota Licensed Beverage Dealers and Gaming Association - PAC$250
wellpac PO Box 9232 Des Moine, IA 50306 FEC$250
North Central States Regional Council of 700 Olive St Saint Paul, MN 55130 FEC Carpenters PC 30561$250
Kevin D Jensen$219
Steve WillardB$200

Collected via SOS portal pull, Aug 2026. Contributor names appear exactly as the committee filed them. Donor addresses are not published.