# Scott Webster Scott Webster is a Republican member of the Iowa Senate for district 47. - Party: Republican - Seat: Iowa Senate, district 47 - Serving since: 2023-01-03 - Current term: IA 2025–26 session - Open States ID: ocd-person/5d6f21b7-11a6-4f5e-8661-abc9345f3623 Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/5d6f21b7-11a6-4f5e-8661-abc9345f3623 (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 44% of Webster’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Iowa, in the bottom tenth of State Senate Republicans. ## Ideology (CSIP) CSIP score +0.70 (standard error 0.04), from 176 donors and 496 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 91% of State Senate Republicans score lower. ## Votes (IA 2025–26 session) 589 roll calls. Attendance 100% (Iowa Senate 93.9%). Party unity 98.9% (95.7%). 2 votes against the party majority. Key votes: - 2026-10-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2801 A bill for an act modifying the major economic growth attraction program, and including effective date provisions. · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2801/ - 2026-05-03 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · SF 2472 A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, fees, financial authority, and budgets, by modifying property assessment provisions,… · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2472/ - 2026-05-03 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2788 A bill for an act relating to abortions including definitions, informed consent, dispensing of abortion-inducing drugs, and other abortion-related… · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2788/ - 2026-05-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2765 A bill for an act providing for the regulation of mining, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2765/ - 2026-05-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 1036 A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and… · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF1036/ - 2026-05-02 · voted nay · Shall amendment S-5251 be adopted? · HF 1036 A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and… · fail · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF1036/ - 2026-05-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2787 A bill for an act prohibiting warrant resolution clinics, including enforcement mechanisms, providing penalties, and including effective date… · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2787/ - 2026-05-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2781 A bill for an act relating to allocations of moneys from the juvenile detention home fund. · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2781/ - 2026-05-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2542 A bill for an act relating to habitual offenders, and providing penalties. · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2542/ - 2026-05-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2493 A bill for an act relating to the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibility, funding, and compulsory attendance and… · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2493/ ## Legislation (IA 2025–26 session) Sponsored 22 bills: 22 reached committee, 3 passed one chamber, 2 passed both, 2 became law. Cosponsored 0. 13.6% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Iowa Senate 10.8%; rank 14 of 48). Recent sponsored bills: - SF 2348: A bill for an act relating to health insurance coverage for surviving spouses and children of deceased fire fighters and peace officers, and health insurance… (in committee, 2026-02-17) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2348/ - SF 2343: A bill for an act relating to vehicle registration plates, including registration plate frames and Gadsden flag special registration plates, providing fees,… (in committee, 2026-02-19) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2343/ - SF 2314: A bill for an act relating to executive branch functions, including ratification of major administrative rules and certain other actions, other matters… (in committee, 2026-02-19) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2314/ - SF 2252: A bill for an act modifying the major economic growth attraction program to include incentivizing the building of a professional sports stadium by a national… (in committee, 2026-02-18) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2252/ - SF 2234: A bill for an act relating to U.S.S. Iowa (in committee, 2026-02-10) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2234/ - SF 2233: A bill for an act relating to insurer’s requests for information and claim timelines, and property and casualty insurer’s loss calculations, adjustments,… (in committee, 2026-02-19) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2233/ - SF 2196: A bill for an act relating to a waiting period before settling motor vehicle insurance claims. (in committee, 2026-02-17) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2196/ - SF 2194: A bill for an act relating to the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights. (in committee, 2026-02-16) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2194/ - SF 2156: A bill for an act authorizing court-required drug testing for a parent pursuant to a custody order. (in committee, 2026-02-19) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2156/ - SF 2164: A bill for an act relating to the definition of public improvement. (in committee, 2026-02-19) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2164/ ## Campaign money (2026 cycle) Itemized receipts $37.5K (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 44% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors. ## Links - Official site: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator?ga=90&personID=13574 - Campaign site: https://www.websterforsenate.com/ - X: https://x.com/SenWebsterIA - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WebsterforSenate/ - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-webster-198b3087/ Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/5d6f21b7-11a6-4f5e-8661-abc9345f3623