# Phillip Pettus

Phillip Pettus is a Republican member of the Alabama House for district 1.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Alabama House, district 1
- Current term: AL 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/a84a3fe8-5444-4db3-9f64-06ea0cba0e90

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a84a3fe8-5444-4db3-9f64-06ea0cba0e90 (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

Pettus reported $328.6K in the 2026 cycle, in the top tenth of State House Republicans (median $33.7K).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.30 (standard error 0.02), from 38 donors and 678 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 40% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Legislation (AL 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 17 bills: 17 reached committee, 12 passed one chamber, 7 passed both, 7 became law. Cosponsored 0. 70.6% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Alabama House 67.2%; rank 42 of 99).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 320: County law library fund and judicial administration fund; to require separate funds to be maintained in the county treasury (in committee, 2026-01-22) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB320/
- HB 247: State Board of Adjustment, provide death benefit to survivors of volunteer firefighters who die of cancer (became law, 2026-04-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB247/
- HB 88: Driver license; examinations administered exclusively in English (in committee, 2026-01-13) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB88/
- HB 6: Employees' Retirement System, all ALEA law enforcement officers, including State Police Tier II Plan members, to receive payment for up to 80 hours of accrued… (in committee, 2026-01-13) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB6/
- HB 11: Youthful offender status, to prohibit a judge from granting youthful offender status to any person who is 16 years of age and older and charged with capital… (passed one chamber, 2026-03-19) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB11/
- HB 10: Juvenile offenders, delinquent acts for purposes of juvenile proceedings further provided for (passed one chamber, 2026-02-25) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB10/
- HB 492: Juvenile offenders, delinquent acts for purposes of juvenile proceedings further provided for (passed one chamber, 2025-05-01) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/HB492/
- HB 392: Lauderdale County, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, district attorneys, annual supplemental compensation provided (became law, 2025-05-22) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/HB392/
- HB 279: Teachers' Retirement System; officers and employees of Lauderdale County Teacher's Credit Union authorized to participate (in committee, 2025-02-13) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/HB279/
- HB 255: Employees' Retirement System of Alabama, State Police Tier II Plan members paid for up to 80 hours unused annual leave over 480 hours per year (passed one chamber, 2025-04-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/HB255/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $328.6K (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/house-leaders-members?tab=1
- Campaign site: https://votephillippettus.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phillip.pettus.50
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhillipPettusforHouse/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a84a3fe8-5444-4db3-9f64-06ea0cba0e90