# Kenneth Paschal

Kenneth Paschal is a Republican member of the Alabama House for district 73.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Alabama House, district 73
- Serving since: 2021-07-14
- Current term: AL 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/ab6d4114-8d0a-4439-934b-10197234473c

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/ab6d4114-8d0a-4439-934b-10197234473c (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

80% of Paschal’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Alabama, in the bottom quarter of State House Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.36 (standard error 0.03), from 199 donors and 327 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 51% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Legislation (AL 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 17 bills: 17 reached committee, 9 passed one chamber, 5 passed both, 5 became law. Cosponsored 0. 52.9% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Alabama House 67.2%; rank 80 of 99).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 650: Legislature; Permanent Joint Legislative Advisory Commission on Alabama Boys and Men created, membership and duties provided, and sunset date provided (in committee, 2026-03-31) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB650/
- HR 294: 250th Anniversary of the United States, celebrated (passed one chamber, 2026-03-31) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HR294/
- HJR 293: 250th Anniversary of the United States, celebrated (became law, 2026-04-15) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HJR293/
- HB 464: Child abuse and neglect reports; definitions of abuse and neglect revised, rights of accused further provided for, unsubstantiated reports excluded from… (in committee, 2026-02-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB464/
- HJR 99: 43rd Alabama State Games Opening Ceremony, recognized (became law, 2026-02-25) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HJR99/
- HB 186: Retirement Systems of Alabama, full retirement benefits for first responders permanently and totally disabled in the line of duty provided without regard to… (in committee, 2026-01-13) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB186/
- HB 148: Fundamental rights of parents; provided for, constitutional amendment (in committee, 2026-03-19) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB148/
- HB 147: Child custody; rebuttable presumption of joint custody provided, definitions relating to joint custody further provided for, joint custody model parenting… (in committee, 2026-01-13) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB147/
- HB 138: Retired state employees; certain supplemental work authorized (became law, 2026-03-26) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB138/
- HB 77: Taxation and Revenue; disabled veterans' homestead taxes inclusion in debt-to-income ratio under certain circumstances prohibited (became law, 2026-03-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/HB77/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $52.6K (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 80% 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://www.kennethpaschal.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KennethPaschal73/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paschalk357/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@paschalk357
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenneth-paschal-7643291a/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/ab6d4114-8d0a-4439-934b-10197234473c