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Kyle Schoenfish

State Senate · District 19

Kyle Schoenfish

50%Senate

Pro-resident voting record on data center bills

Sided with residents on 50% of votes across 11 data center bills.

Note

Received PAC contributions from SD Action Committee for Rural Electrification (ACRE PAC), South Dakota Public Power PAC, & Northwestern Energy Employees PAC. Several energy companies lobbied in Pierre for tax breaks for data centers this past legislative session.

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 135Voted For

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

SB 239Voted For

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.

SB 239Co-Sponsor

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.

$15,000in itemised receipts

Kyle Schoenfish For SD

The itemised donations on file add up to $15,000, while the summary figure collected for Kyle Schoenfish is $14,250. The two have not been reconciled, most likely because they cover different filing periods. Both are shown rather than choosing one.

Flagged contributions to their own committee

  • BUtility, power and energy interests$500
  • CThe PAC funnel$250
Flagged total$750

Money spent by others

This is not Kyle Schoenfish’s money and was not received by their campaign. A candidate does not control independent expenditure made on their behalf, and may not want it.

  • FIndependent expenditure spent for them$30,190

Flagged donors, largest first

  • SD Ethanol Producers Pac $500
  • Dusty PAC $250
Every itemised contribution on file (31)
Committee (EPIC) South Dakota Realtors PoliticalC$2,000
(UNITEMIZED - gifts of $100 or less)$1,250
Senate Republican Campaign$1,000
Contribution Statement you received from the entity. Caseys General Stores 1 SE Convenience BLVD Ankeny, IA 50021$1,000
SD Educators Political Involvement$1,000
South Dakota Retailers Association$1,000
Contractors PAC of South DakotaC$550
Electrification SD Ethanol Producers PacB$500
Action Committee South Dakota State Medical Association Political ActionC$500
SD Bankers PACC$500
South Dakota Dental Association$500
Dakota Conservative PACC$500
BNSF Railway Company$500
Deadwood Tourism PACC$500
Committee SD Chiropractic PacC$350
Committee Soy PACC$300
Action Committee Credit Union Political ActionC$250
Dusty PAC$250
South Dakota Pork Producers PACC$250
COTEL$250
Diedrich for Senate$250
SD Action Committe for Rural$250
South Dakota Association Of Healthcare Organizations Political$250
Pastor Donald & Bernika$250
PAC MaypacC$250
Committee South Dakota Insurance AllianceC$200
Mitchell Richter$150
Property Casualty InsuranceC$150
Marketers PAC SDTC Companies PACC$100
SD Petroleum and Propane$100
PAC Tourism Coalition of South DakotaC$100

Collected via manual pull (verified). Contributor names appear exactly as the committee filed them. Donor addresses are not published.

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