# Berry Forte

Berry Forte is a Democratic member of the Alabama House for district 84.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Alabama House, district 84
- Serving since: 2010-11-03
- Current term: AL 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/a5d0ab78-e643-4ea1-86f2-2dad948b498a

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a5d0ab78-e643-4ea1-86f2-2dad948b498a (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

Forte sits at −0.26 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 94% of State House Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.26 (standard error 0.01), from 7 donors and 656 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 94% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Legislation (AL 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 4 bills: 4 reached committee, 4 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 0.

Recent sponsored bills:

- HR 283: Forte Family Reunion, recognized (passed one chamber, 2025-04-24) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/HR283/
- HR 225: Grady McClinton, Jr., death mourned (passed one chamber, 2025-04-09) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/HR225/
- HR 196: Samuel Miller, honored (passed one chamber, 2025-04-03) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/HR196/
- HR 168: Allen Thomas, death mourned (passed one chamber, 2025-03-20) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/HR168/
- HR 109: ACKNOWLEDGING THE DEDICATION OF BULLOCK COUNTY ROAD 52 IN MEMORY OF COMMISSIONER FRED CRAWFORD. (introduced, 2023-04-20) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2023rs/HR109/
- HR 100: MOURNING THE DEATH OF MR. THEO R. SMITH. (introduced, 2023-04-20) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2023rs/HR100/
- HR 150: McCraney, Joe and Ashley, commended (passed both chambers, 2021-03-30) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2021rs/HR150/
- HR 289: Forte, Josephine, 36 years of service, commended (passed one chamber, 2019-05-29) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2019rs/HR289/
- HR 148: Kindred, Effie Jane, death mourned (passed one chamber, 2019-04-23) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2019rs/HR148/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $47.5K (State House Democrats median $40.4K). 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/a5d0ab78-e643-4ea1-86f2-2dad948b498a