# Jim Hill

Jim Hill is a Republican member of the Alabama House for district 50.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Alabama House, district 50
- Serving since: 2014-11-05
- Current term: AL 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/1fda4118-bfb1-4ffa-b71a-a9d131feec6b

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/1fda4118-bfb1-4ffa-b71a-a9d131feec6b (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

96% of the 24 bills Hill sponsored got out of committee, in the top 5% of the Alabama House.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.09 (standard error 0.02), from 1 donors and 632 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 11% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Legislation (AL 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 24 bills: 24 reached committee, 23 passed one chamber, 16 passed both, 16 became law. Cosponsored 0. 95.8% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Alabama House 67.2%; rank 5 of 99).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HR 127: Moody High School Varsity Softball Team, congratulated (passed one chamber, 2026-02-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HR127/
- HB 312: District Attorneys’ Plan for Retirement under the Judicial Retirement Fund; calculation of service retirement allowance and disability retirement allowance… (became law, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB312/
- HB 281: Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Enforcement Act; certain temporary emergency child custody determinations authorized to become final (passed one chamber, 2026-03-03) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB281/
- HB 282: Board of Pardons and Paroles; commencement date changed to March 1 (became law, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB282/
- HB 228: Pretrial detention hearings; procedure revised (passed one chamber, 2026-03-11) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB228/
- HB 227: Administrative Office of Courts, creation of judicial education nonprofit (became law, 2026-03-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB227/
- HB 149: Board of Commissioners of the Alabama State Bar, designated as an entity within the Judicial Branch of State Government (became law, 2026-02-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB149/
- HB 130: Teachers' Retirement System, reopened to allow the purchase of credit for prior service rendered to the St. Clair County DAY Program, Incorporated (passed one chamber, 2026-02-05) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB130/
- HB 112: St. Clair County; compensation revised for sheriff, judge of probate, revenue commissioner, chair and members of the county commission (became law, 2026-02-04) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB112/
- HB 117: County commission procurement; procurement program allowed to apply to purchase of services, county commission allowed to consider administrative savings (became law, 2026-02-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB117/

## Campaign money (2022 cycle)

Itemized receipts $26.2K (State House Republicans median $1,620). 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

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/1fda4118-bfb1-4ffa-b71a-a9d131feec6b