# Brian Rhodes

Brian Rhodes is a Republican member of the Mississippi Senate for district 36.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Mississippi Senate, district 36
- Serving since: 2024-01-02
- Current term: MS 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/77852654-cea4-4555-899c-641494605220

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/77852654-cea4-4555-899c-641494605220 (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

20% of Rhodes’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Mississippi, in the bottom tenth of State Senate Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.15 (standard error 0.02), from 21 donors and 457 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 20% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Votes (MS 2025–26 session)

2,122 roll calls. Attendance 99.9% (Mississippi Senate 97.1%). Party unity 99.3% (88%). 15 votes against the party majority.

Key votes:

- 2026-07-16 · voted yea · Passage · HB 2 Appropriation; Department of Human Services of. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/20261E/HB2/
- 2026-07-16 · voted yea · Passage · HB 1 Appropriation; Department of Human Services to establish and implement youth diversion program. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/20261E/HB1/
- 2026-07-15 · voted yea · Passage as Amended · SB 2001 The Mississippi Youth Court Reform Act of 2026; enact. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/20261E/SB2001/
- 2026-04-02 · voted yea · Adopt Conference Report · SB 2474 Rare Disease Task Force; establish within the Mississippi Rare Disease Advisory Council. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB2474/
- 2026-04-02 · voted yea · Adopt Conference Report · HB 1761 Alcoholic beverages; extend repealers relating to festival wine permits. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/HB1761/
- 2026-04-02 · voted yea · Adopt Conference Report · HB 1772 Mississippi Department of Human Services; extend repealers on. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/HB1772/
- 2026-04-02 · voted yea · Adopt Conference Report · SB 2917 Budget; provide for various transfers of funds, and create various special funds. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB2917/
- 2026-04-01 · voted yea · Adopt Conference Report · HB 1330 Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law; revise definition of "qualified resort area". · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/HB1330/
- 2026-04-01 · voted yea · Adopt Conference Report · HB 1662 Joint custody matters; create rebuttable presumption in favor of. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/HB1662/
- 2026-04-01 · voted nay · Passage · HB 4120 Suffrage; restore to Charles Kenneth Landrum of Jones County. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/HB4120/

## Legislation (MS 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 74 bills: 74 reached committee, 22 passed one chamber, 8 passed both, 7 became law. Cosponsored 51. 29.7% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Mississippi Senate 34.7%; rank 27 of 47).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SR 129: Commend Coach Bill Ward upon his induction into the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-31) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SR129/
- SR 116: Commend Raleigh High School Football Team upon winning the MHSAA Class 3A State Championship. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-31) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SR116/
- SR 113: Commend East Rankin Academy Shooting Sports Team for 6th consecutive State Championship. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-31) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SR113/
- SR 114: Commend East Rankin Academy Patriots Boys Soccer Team for back-to-back State Championships. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-31) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SR114/
- SR 115: Commend East Rankin Academy Girls Cross Country Team for 5th Consecutive MAIS 4A State Championship. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-31) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SR115/
- SB 2926: City of Richland; extend date of repeal on hotel/motel tourism tax. (became law, 2026-04-08) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB2926/
- SB 2927: City of Richland; extend repealer on bar and restaurant tourism tax. (became law, 2026-04-08) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB2927/
- SR 85: Commend Florence High School Girls Soccer Team upon winning the MHSAA Class 5A State Champioinship. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-26) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SR85/
- SB 3166: General Fund; FY2027 appropriation to the Village of Sylvarena for improvements to its community center. (in committee, 2026-02-25) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB3166/
- SB 3168: General Fund; FY2027 appropriation to City of Richland for repairs and improvements to its drainage and infrastructure. (in committee, 2026-02-25) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB3168/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $6,750 (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 20% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/members/senate/rhodes.xml
- Campaign site: https://rhodesforsenate.us/
- X: https://x.com/rhodesforsenate
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brian.rhodes.372

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/77852654-cea4-4555-899c-641494605220