# Ed Oliver

Ed Oliver is a Republican member of the Alabama House for district 81.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Alabama House, district 81
- Serving since: 2018-11-07
- Current term: AL 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/9ec989cb-f503-46c1-aa2a-2913e2bc16bd

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/9ec989cb-f503-46c1-aa2a-2913e2bc16bd (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

Oliver sits at +0.12 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 85% of State House Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.12 (standard error 0.02), from 10 donors and 698 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 15% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Legislation (AL 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 33 bills: 33 reached committee, 20 passed one chamber, 16 passed both, 16 became law. Cosponsored 0. 60.6% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Alabama House 67.2%; rank 64 of 99).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HJR 282: Chronic Weight Management and Type 2 Diabetes Task Force, extended (became law, 2026-04-15) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HJR282/
- HJR 259: Military Appreciation Day, observed, Members of the 99th Air Refueling Squadron, honored (became law, 2026-03-31) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HJR259/
- HB 531: Taxation; to exempt certain contractors from utility gross receipts tax, utility service use tax, and sales and use tax on natural gas and liquefied petroleum… (in committee, 2026-02-26) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB531/
- HB 491: Tallapoosa County; remote access of records fee authorized (became law, 2026-03-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB491/
- HB 490: Tallapoosa County; compensation of judge of probate and revenue commissioner revised (became law, 2026-03-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB490/
- HR 166: Encouraging the Alabama Medicaid Agency to evaluate the overall costs of GLP-1 medications and report its findings (in committee, 2026-02-24) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HR166/
- HJR 162: Encouraging the Alabama Medicaid Agency to evaluate the overall costs of GLP-1 medications and report its findings (became law, 2026-03-13) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HJR162/
- HB 443: Article V Convention; process for appointing commissioners and alternate commissioners to represent the State of Alabama at Article V Convention established (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB443/
- HB 400: Ground ambulance services; to prohibit balance billing and set minimum reimbursement rates by health care insurers to emergency medical service providers (in committee, 2026-02-25) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB400/
- HJR 88: Expressing support for the establishment of a state veterans cemetery in north Alabama/Madison County (became law, 2026-03-05) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HJR88/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $49.3K (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/9ec989cb-f503-46c1-aa2a-2913e2bc16bd