# Ernie Yarbrough

Ernie Yarbrough is a Republican member of the Alabama House for district 7.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Alabama House, district 7
- Serving since: 2022-11-09
- Current term: AL 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/5658aa05-6ffa-4774-a8a4-f49c169769d2

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/5658aa05-6ffa-4774-a8a4-f49c169769d2 (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

Yarbrough sits at +0.75 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 94% of State House Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.75 (standard error 0.04), from 70 donors and 234 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 94% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Legislation (AL 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 21 bills: 21 reached committee, 10 passed one chamber, 5 passed both, 5 became law. Cosponsored 0. 47.6% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Alabama House 67.2%; rank 87 of 99).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 666: State employees; salary deductions from education employees prohibited for labor organizations, procedure to revoke membership in employee organization… (in committee, 2026-04-02) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB666/
- HB 651: Military related distinctive license plates; certain individuals from recertification exempted (in committee, 2026-04-01) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB651/
- HB 581: Child support; to require an individual convicted of driving under the influence to pay child support for the child of a victim under certain circumstances (in committee, 2026-03-05) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB581/
- HB 546: Incarceration; to provide required time periods in the administration of the Lawrence County Community Corrections and Court Services Fund (became law, 2026-03-31) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB546/
- HB 543: Lawrence County; sheriff, use of credit card or debit card authorized (became law, 2026-04-01) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB543/
- HB 541: Primary Elections; require political party registration to vote in primary or primary runoff elections (passed one chamber, 2026-04-08) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB541/
- HB 421: Lawrence County; senior property tax exemption authorized; constitutional amendment (became law, 2026-02-24) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB421/
- HB 12: Health; discrimination by certain entities against individuals who refuse certain immunizations, drugs, or facial coverings for reasons of conscience… (in committee, 2026-01-13) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB12/
- HB 13: Illegal immigration, procedures for arrest, detention, transportation of illegal immigrants provided for; reporting requirements established (passed one chamber, 2026-04-02) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB13/
- HB 510: Temporary release program; to revise periods for distributing monies and the effective date for opt-in by municipalities (passed one chamber, 2025-05-12) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/HB510/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $79.0K (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 93% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ernie-yarbrough-4b006b36/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/5658aa05-6ffa-4774-a8a4-f49c169769d2