# Amy Sinclair Amy Sinclair is a Republican member of the Iowa Senate for district 12. - Party: Republican - Seat: Iowa Senate, district 12 - Serving since: 2023-01-03 - Current term: IA 2025–26 session - Open States ID: ocd-person/8e969687-4903-4f3c-a76f-2e35a2232d09 Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/8e969687-4903-4f3c-a76f-2e35a2232d09 (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 Sinclair sits at +0.75 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 93% of State Senate Republicans. ## Ideology (CSIP) CSIP score +0.75 (standard error 0.03), from 309 donors and 895 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 93% of State Senate Republicans score lower. ## Votes (IA 2025–26 session) 589 roll calls. Attendance 92.7% (Iowa Senate 93.9%). Party unity 100% (95.7%). 0 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 24 bills: 24 reached committee, 5 passed one chamber, 1 passed both, 1 became law. Cosponsored 0. 20.8% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Iowa Senate 10.8%; rank 8 of 48). Recent sponsored bills: - SF 2285: A bill for an act providing a tax credit for car registration fees paid by a disabled veteran available against the individual income tax, and including… (in committee, 2026-02-16) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2285/ - SJR 2008: A joint resolution supporting devolution of power from the United States department of education to the states. (in committee, 2026-02-19) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SJR2008/ - SR 105: A resolution amending Senate rules for the Ninety-first General Assembly. (passed one chamber, 2026-02-10) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SR105/ - SF 2183: A bill for an act providing for the Iowa individual income tax checkoff for public schools and the public school checkoff fund, making appropriations, and… (in committee, 2026-02-24) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2183/ - SF 2171: A bill for an act relating to qualifications for admission to practice law. (in committee, 2026-02-11) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2171/ - SF 2173: A bill for an act relating to sufficient English language proficiency requirements for commercial drivers, and providing penalties. (in committee, 2026-02-23) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2173/ - SF 2117: A bill for an act relating to thoroughbred and quarter horse racing seasons. (in committee, 2026-02-04) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2117/ - SF 2070: A bill for an act relating to the commission on uniform state laws. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-26) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2070/ - SF 2060: A bill for an act relating to eligibility standards for certain education programs and tax provisions based on religious or sectarian use or purpose, and… (in committee, 2026-02-09) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2060/ - SF 2059: A bill for an act relating to prohibitions and requirements for state entities concerning certain actions of appointed officers of the executive branch, and… (in committee, 2026-01-27) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2059/ ## Campaign money (2026 cycle) Itemized receipts $136.8K (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 90% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors. ## Links - Official site: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator/legislatorAllYears?personID=10729 - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sinclairforiowa/ - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-sinclair-20927670 Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/8e969687-4903-4f3c-a76f-2e35a2232d09