# Phil Tarver

Phil Tarver is a Republican member of the Louisiana House for district 36.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Louisiana House, district 36
- Serving since: 2020-01-13
- Current term: LA 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/04a524b7-1f7a-4d01-8491-c52df47e20cc

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/04a524b7-1f7a-4d01-8491-c52df47e20cc (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

Tarver sits at +0.73 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 93% of State House Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.73 (standard error 0.02), from 150 donors and 401 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 93% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Votes (LA 2025–26 session)

2,668 roll calls. Attendance 72% (Louisiana House 90.7%). Party unity 96.7% (89%). 126 votes against the party majority.

Key votes:

- 2026-06-01 · voted yea · FINAL PASSAGE (#1848) · SB 237 CHILDREN: Provides relative to child welfare. (8/1/26) (EN NO IMPACT See Note) · pass · https://openstates.org/la/bills/2026/SB237/
- 2026-05-29 · voted yea · FINAL PASSAGE (#1650) · SB 132 SCHOOLS: Provides that each public school board is to install exterior master key boxes to allow for rapid entry, response, and rescue by law… · pass · https://openstates.org/la/bills/2026/SB132/
- 2026-05-29 · voted not voting · FINAL PASSAGE (#1647) · SB 228 LOCAL FINANCE: Constitutional amendment to allow for the use of public funds to replace drinking water utility service lines located on private… · pass · https://openstates.org/la/bills/2026/SB228/
- 2026-05-29 · voted yea · FINAL PASSAGE (#1634) · SB 202 ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT: Provides for the increase of parish board of election supervisor meetings in certain parishes for certain races. (8/1/26) (EN… · pass · https://openstates.org/la/bills/2026/SB202/
- 2026-05-29 · voted yea · FINAL PASSAGE (#1644) · SB 513 PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Provides for public works project delivery methods. (8/1/26) · pass · https://openstates.org/la/bills/2026/SB513/
- 2026-05-29 · voted yea · FINAL PASSAGE (#1651) · SB 25 REGISTRARS OF VOTERS: Adjusts compensation schedule for Registrar of Voters. (7/1/26) (EN +$496,168 GF EX See Note) · pass · https://openstates.org/la/bills/2026/SB25/
- 2026-05-29 · voted yea · FINAL PASSAGE (#1762) · SB 80 COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS: Provides for the regulation of certain broadband services. (8/1/26) (EN NO IMPACT See Note) · pass · https://openstates.org/la/bills/2026/SB80/
- 2026-05-29 · voted yea · FINAL PASSAGE (#1645) · SB 268 LOCAL FINANCE: Provides for lead service line replacement. (8/1/26) · pass · https://openstates.org/la/bills/2026/SB268/
- 2026-05-29 · voted yea · FINAL PASSAGE (#1638) · SB 406 TAX/LOCAL: Authorizes the city of Slidell to levy a hotel occupancy tax. (gov sig) (EN +$590,000 LF RV See Note) · pass · https://openstates.org/la/bills/2026/SB406/
- 2026-05-29 · voted nay · FINAL PASSAGE (#1641) · SB 433 MEDICAID: Provides for Medicaid coverage of certain medications. (1/1/27) (EN +$3,000,000 GF EX See Note) · pass · https://openstates.org/la/bills/2026/SB433/

## Legislation (LA 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 10 bills: 10 reached committee, 6 passed one chamber, 1 passed both, 1 became law. Cosponsored 29. 60.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Louisiana House 47.9%; rank 28 of 101).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 1016: APPROPRIATIONS/JUDGMENT: Appropriates funds for payment of the consent judgment against the state in the suit captioned Deborah L. Reynolds v. Beauregard… (in committee, 2026-03-30) https://openstates.org/la/bills/2026/HB1016/
- HCR 15: JOINT RULES: Provides for limitations on appropriations to nongovernmental entities (passed one chamber, 2025-06-10) https://openstates.org/la/bills/2025/HCR15/
- HCR 48: SPECIAL DAY/WEEK/MONTH: Designates September 21-28, 2025, as Frontotemporal Degeneration Awareness Week in Louisiana (passed one chamber, 2025-05-23) https://openstates.org/la/bills/2025/HCR48/
- HB 334: TAX/SALES & USE: Repeals one percent of the state sales and use tax levy (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note) (in committee, 2025-04-14) https://openstates.org/la/bills/2025/HB334/
- HB 283: APPROPRIATIONS: Limits the amount of recurring State General Fund (Direct) revenues that may be appropriated in a fiscal year for recurring expenses and… (passed one chamber, 2025-04-30) https://openstates.org/la/bills/2025/HB283/
- HB 309: APPROPRIATIONS/GENERAL: Provides for limitations on appropriations to nongovernmental entities (EG NO IMPACT See Note) (passed one chamber, 2025-06-02) https://openstates.org/la/bills/2025/HB309/
- HB 295: APPROPRIATIONS: (Constitutional Amendment) Limits the amount of State General Fund (Direct) revenues that may be appropriated in a fiscal year for recurring… (passed one chamber, 2025-05-20) https://openstates.org/la/bills/2025/HB295/
- HB 127: TAX/INCOME TAX: Establishes an individual income tax deduction for contributions made into certain deductible savings accounts (EG DECREASE GF RV See Note) (in committee, 2025-05-13) https://openstates.org/la/bills/2025/HB127/
- HB 62: LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Authorizes parish governing authorities to create commercial property assessed capital expenditure and resilience programs (OR SEE FISC NOTE… (in committee, 2025-04-14) https://openstates.org/la/bills/2025/HB62/
- HB 17: RETIREMENT/MUNICIPAL POL: Provides relative to the deferred retirement option plan of the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System (EN SEE ACTUARAL NOTE… (became law, 2025-06-04) https://openstates.org/la/bills/2025/HB17/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $9,300 (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://house.louisiana.gov/H_Reps/members?ID=36
- Campaign site: https://philliptarverstaterep.com/
- X: https://x.com/tarverstaterep
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RepPhillipTarver36
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/petarver

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/04a524b7-1f7a-4d01-8491-c52df47e20cc