# Sean Tarwater

Sean Tarwater is a Republican member of the Kansas House for district 27.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Kansas House, district 27
- Serving since: 2017-01-09
- Current term: KS 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/a65df523-1cb7-4ee3-ac85-1eec82b3fe2c

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a65df523-1cb7-4ee3-ac85-1eec82b3fe2c (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

23% of Tarwater’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Kansas, in the bottom 5% of State House Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.20 (standard error 0.02), from 83 donors and 593 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 26% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Legislation (KS 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 23 bills: 14 reached committee, 4 passed one chamber, 2 passed both, 2 became law. Cosponsored 0. 17.4% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Kansas House 13.7%; rank 53 of 124).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HR 6043: Commemorating the life and service of Representative Melody McCray-Miller. (introduced, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6043/
- HR 6044: Commemorating the life and service of Representative Harold Lane. (introduced, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6044/
- HR 6042: Strengthening the sister-state ties between the State of Kansas and Taiwan. (introduced, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6042/
- HR 6040: Commemorating the life and service of Representative John Resman. (introduced, 2026-03-24) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6040/
- HR 6034: Commemorating the life and service of Representative Robert Tomlinson. (introduced, 2026-03-13) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6034/
- HCR 5034: Proposing to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas by revising article 11 by establishing the freedom from taxes fund, establishing the Kansas… (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HCR5034/
- HR 6030: Supporting the State of Israel and affirming the historical, biblical and legal significance of Judea and Samaria. (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6030/
- HB 2670: Prohibiting video streaming services from transmitting commercial advertisements with the audio louder than that of the main video streaming content in which… (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HB2670/
- HR 6024: Urging the Kansas Turnpike Authority to waive tolls for vehicles displaying Kansas special license plates related to injury, loss of life or valor in active… (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6024/
- HB 2634: Requiring landlords to comply with a default maintenance code if the rental property is in a city or county that has not adopted a maintenance code. (in committee, 2026-02-19) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HB2634/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $9,250 (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 23% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/members/rep_tarwater_sean_1/
- Campaign site: https://teamtarwater.com/
- X: https://x.com/TeamTarwater
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seantarwater
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seantarwatersr/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-e-tarwater-mba-afip-69ba6825/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a65df523-1cb7-4ee3-ac85-1eec82b3fe2c