# Brad Starnes

Brad Starnes is a Republican member of the Kansas Senate for district 22.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Kansas Senate, district 22
- Serving since: 2025-01-13
- Current term: KS 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/2b66826b-7af3-4053-8d3b-90dbcf4f0740

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/2b66826b-7af3-4053-8d3b-90dbcf4f0740 (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

64% of Starnes’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Kansas, in the bottom quarter of State Senate Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.19 (standard error 0.05), from 151 donors and 0 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 25% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Legislation (KS 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 20 bills: 11 reached committee, 5 passed one chamber, 3 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 0. 25.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Kansas Senate 18.3%; rank 15 of 40).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SR 1732: Commending Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve and acknowledging the patriotic commitment of all Kansas employers who support their employees serving in… (introduced, 2026-03-13) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/SR1732/
- SR 1727: Congratulating the 2026 Kansas Master Teachers. (introduced, 2026-03-04) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/SR1727/
- SR 1724: Commemorating and celebrating the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. (introduced, 2026-02-04) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/SR1724/
- SCR 1620: Recognizing the seriousness of the national debt and the threat to national security that such debt poses. (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/SCR1620/
- SB 304: Establishing the born to invest act and requiring the office of vital statistics to provide data to the office of the state treasurer for the distribution of… (passed one chamber, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/SB304/
- SCR 1615: Honoring the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk and recognizing October 14 as Charlie Kirk Free Speech Day. (passed both chambers, 2026-02-17) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/SCR1615/
- SB 302: Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during instructional time and prohibiting any employee of a school… (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/SB302/
- SCR 1616: Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax assessed value increases for real property in any… (passed both chambers, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/SCR1616/
- SR 1717: Denouncing the planned satanic worship ritual scheduled to take place on March 28, 2025. (introduced, 2025-03-26) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/SR1717/
- SR 1715: Recognizing March 13, 2025, as Mental Health Advocacy Day at the capitol. (introduced, 2025-03-14) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/SR1715/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $12.5K (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 64% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/members/sen_starnes_brad_1/
- Campaign site: https://starnes4senate.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-starnes-43493418/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/2b66826b-7af3-4053-8d3b-90dbcf4f0740