# Vivian Figures

Vivian Figures is a Democratic member of the Alabama Senate for district 33.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Alabama Senate, district 33
- Serving since: 1997-01-28
- Current term: AL 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/63d0a35f-ec68-48e2-be94-d5e3cb60b3c3

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/63d0a35f-ec68-48e2-be94-d5e3cb60b3c3 (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

Figures sits at −0.43 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 81% of State Senate Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.43 (standard error 0.03), from 13 donors and 462 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 81% of State Senate Democrats score lower.

## Legislation (AL 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 12 bills: 12 reached committee, 9 passed one chamber, 9 passed both, 8 became law. Cosponsored 0. 75.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Alabama Senate 60.8%; rank 8 of 35).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SB 346: Mobile County; local privilege tax on historical horse racing, levied (passed both chambers, 2026-03-31) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB346/
- SB 333: Class 2 municipalities; industrial development boards, powers amended (became law, 2026-04-07) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB333/
- SB 315: Employees' Retirement System and Teachers' Retirement System; retirees and beneficiaries, two percent cost-of-living benefit increase effective October 1, 2026 (in committee, 2026-02-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB315/
- SB 300: Distinctive license plates; Helping Schools plate design requirements further provided for, certain individuals eligible to receive the new license plate… (became law, 2026-04-16) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB300/
- SB 203: Crimes and procedure; crimes of indecent exposure and other sex crimes further provided to include additional victims; crime of inpatient custodial sexual… (became law, 2026-04-08) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB203/
- SB 166: Campaign finance; require preservation of campaign records for specified period of time (became law, 2026-04-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB166/
- SJR 10: Claudette Colvin, death mourned (became law, 2026-01-29) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SJR10/
- SB 107: Alabama Board of Funeral Services; board authorized to impose administrative fee on funeral establishments for each funeral arranged; initial application,… (became law, 2026-04-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB107/
- SB 259: University of South Alabama; membership of Board of Trustees revised, meetings of the board further provided for (became law, 2025-05-06) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/SB259/
- SB 230: SNAP benefits; require reimbursement to recipients for stolen benefits (in committee, 2025-03-06) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/SB230/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $103.5K (State Senate Democrats median $55.5K). Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/senate-leaders-members?tab=1&search=figures
- X: https://x.com/vivian_figures
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vivian.figures/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivian-figures-4661262a/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/63d0a35f-ec68-48e2-be94-d5e3cb60b3c3