# Chip Brown

Chip Brown is a Republican member of the Alabama House for district 105.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Alabama House, district 105
- Serving since: 2018-11-07
- Current term: AL 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/04a1794d-93f0-435f-8c68-1b435f2fc1a0

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/04a1794d-93f0-435f-8c68-1b435f2fc1a0 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

100% of Brown’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Alabama, in the top quarter of State House Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.37 (standard error 0.02), from 4 donors and 518 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 52% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Legislation (AL 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 38 bills: 38 reached committee, 30 passed one chamber, 13 passed both, 13 became law. Cosponsored 0. 79.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Alabama House 67.2%; rank 30 of 99).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 576: Mobile County; temporary judges of probate, appointment amended (became law, 2026-04-06) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB576/
- HJR 199: Captain Ted Johnson, commended (became law, 2026-03-24) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HJR199/
- HJR 180: Founding of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Celebrated (became law, 2026-03-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HJR180/
- HJR 179: Congress urged to authorize a reliability report on Marine Highway 65 (became law, 2026-03-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HJR179/
- HB 444: Seafood country of origin; Agriculture and Industries Commissioner authorized to test for compliance, notification methods revised, violations further provided (passed one chamber, 2026-04-07) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB444/
- HB 392: Public Service Commission; provide for appointment of commissioners by Governor, commission duties revised (in committee, 2026-02-10) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB392/
- HB 302: Bail and surety bonding; requirements for professional surety bondsman and professional bail bondsman further provided for, requirements for apprentice… (became law, 2026-04-16) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB302/
- HB 296: Consumer Protection, Rental Home Marketplace Guarantees Act created (passed one chamber, 2026-02-25) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB296/
- HB 179: Alabama Resilience Council, created (in committee, 2026-02-03) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB179/
- HB 141: Public utilities; maximum fees payable to directors of certain public utility corporations increased, terms of certain directors extended (became law, 2026-04-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB141/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $108.5K (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/house-leaders-members?tab=1/
- X: https://x.com/chipbrownforpsc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chip.brown.10
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chip-brown/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/04a1794d-93f0-435f-8c68-1b435f2fc1a0