# Steve Hurst

Steve Hurst is a Republican member of the Alabama House for district 35.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Alabama House, district 35
- Serving since: 1998-11-01
- Current term: AL 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/4f0a4d5d-b27a-4f33-b394-f27d306f8a42

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/4f0a4d5d-b27a-4f33-b394-f27d306f8a42 (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 Hurst’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Alabama, in the top quarter of State House Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.17 (standard error 0.03), from 4 donors and 631 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 21% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Legislation (AL 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 4 bills: 2 reached committee, 2 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 0.

Recent sponsored bills:

- HJR 357: Naming a portion of Talladega County Road 047 as Munford Boulevard (introduced, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HJR357/
- HJR 358: Naming a portion of Highway 21 the Jackie Swinford Memorial Highway (introduced, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HJR358/
- HR 145: Talladega Insurance Agency, commended (passed one chamber, 2026-02-19) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HR145/
- HB 454: Crimes and offenses; crime of tampering with a legislative record, established (passed one chamber, 2025-05-01) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/HB454/
- HR 284: Coach Charles Chucky Miller, commended (passed one chamber, 2024-05-08) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2024rs/HR284/
- HB 453: Relating to Talladega County; to amend Sections 1 and 3 of Act 91-522 of the 1991 Regular Session (Acts 1991, p. 923), as amended by Act 2018-101 of the 2018… (became law, 2023-06-12) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2023rs/HB453/
- HB 423: Relating to Talladega County; to amend Section 11 of Act 91-533 of the 1991 Regular Session (Acts 1991, p. 948), as last amended by Act 2019-156 of the 2019… (became law, 2023-06-02) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2023rs/HB423/
- HB 364: Relating to education; to require a public K-12 school, a local board of education, and certain event organizers to accept certain forms of payment for… (became law, 2023-06-01) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2023rs/HB364/
- HR 272: Muscogee Reyicepes Festival, recognized (passed one chamber, 2022-04-06) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2022rs/HR272/
- HJR 177: Defensive driving videos, urging Alabama high schools and Alabama Public Television to show to educate drivers (in committee, 2022-03-31) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2022rs/HJR177/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $10.5K (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
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/steve.hurst.399
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-hurst-4911a167/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/4f0a4d5d-b27a-4f33-b394-f27d306f8a42