# Chad Robertson

Chad Robertson is a Republican member of the Alabama House for district 40.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Alabama House, district 40
- Serving since: 2022-11-09
- Current term: AL 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/60ec1e11-da78-43be-90e5-5d850bf3edc7

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/60ec1e11-da78-43be-90e5-5d850bf3edc7 (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

Robertson reported $222.7K in the 2026 cycle, in the top tenth of State House Republicans (median $33.7K).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.29 (standard error 0.03), from 118 donors and 241 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 39% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Legislation (AL 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 15 bills: 15 reached committee, 11 passed one chamber, 6 passed both, 6 became law. Cosponsored 0. 73.3% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Alabama House 67.2%; rank 36 of 99).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 625: Cleburne County; business personal property tax returns, electronic filing authorized (became law, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB625/
- HB 416: Cleburne County; Cleburne County Economic Development Authority, established (became law, 2026-03-03) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB416/
- HJR 96: Staff Sergeant Ronald Hurst, recognized (became law, 2026-03-05) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HJR96/
- HB 389: Crimes and procedure; domestic violence crimes, substantially revised; temporary holding periods and bond requirements, established; criminal penalties… (in committee, 2026-04-01) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB389/
- HB 348: Bail; pretrial hearing for illegal aliens charged with violent offenses, required; presumption of flight risk, established (in committee, 2026-02-19) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB348/
- HB 74: Law enforcement officers; retirement, benefits provided (passed one chamber, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB74/
- HB 75: Public high schools; students excused from class for scholarship acceptance, college commitment, military enlistment (became law, 2026-04-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB75/
- HB 605: Taxation; to exempt the sale of certain items used in agricultural production from state sales and use tax (in committee, 2025-04-22) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/HB605/
- HB 599: Domestic violence; establishment of domestic violence database provided for; Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency required to adopt rules (in committee, 2025-04-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/HB599/
- HJR 209: Drakken Tru Graham, commended (became law, 2025-04-22) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/HJR209/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $222.7K (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 99% 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/chad.robertson.182

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/60ec1e11-da78-43be-90e5-5d850bf3edc7