# Ben Suber

Ben Suber is a Republican member of the Mississippi Senate for district 8.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Mississippi Senate, district 8
- Serving since: 2020-01-07
- Current term: MS 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/ba13036f-790b-4745-b008-eeb74f1c86a1

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/ba13036f-790b-4745-b008-eeb74f1c86a1 (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

100% of Suber’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Mississippi, in the top quarter of State Senate Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.14 (standard error 0.02), from 14 donors and 977 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 20% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Votes (MS 2025–26 session)

2,115 roll calls. Attendance 99.4% (Mississippi Senate 97.1%). Party unity 94.7% (88%). 24 votes against the party majority.

Key votes:

- 2026-07-16 · voted yea · Passage · HB 2 Appropriation; Department of Human Services of. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/20261E/HB2/
- 2026-07-16 · voted yea · Passage · HB 1 Appropriation; Department of Human Services to establish and implement youth diversion program. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/20261E/HB1/
- 2026-07-15 · voted not voting · Passage as Amended · SB 2001 The Mississippi Youth Court Reform Act of 2026; enact. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/20261E/SB2001/
- 2026-04-02 · voted yea · Adopt Conference Report · SB 2474 Rare Disease Task Force; establish within the Mississippi Rare Disease Advisory Council. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB2474/
- 2026-04-02 · voted yea · Adopt Conference Report · HB 1761 Alcoholic beverages; extend repealers relating to festival wine permits. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/HB1761/
- 2026-04-02 · voted yea · Adopt Conference Report · HB 1772 Mississippi Department of Human Services; extend repealers on. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/HB1772/
- 2026-04-02 · voted yea · Adopt Conference Report · SB 2917 Budget; provide for various transfers of funds, and create various special funds. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB2917/
- 2026-04-01 · voted yea · Adopt Conference Report · HB 1330 Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law; revise definition of "qualified resort area". · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/HB1330/
- 2026-04-01 · voted nay · Adopt Conference Report · HB 1662 Joint custody matters; create rebuttable presumption in favor of. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/HB1662/
- 2026-04-01 · voted yea · Passage · HB 4120 Suffrage; restore to Charles Kenneth Landrum of Jones County. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/HB4120/

## Legislation (MS 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 93 bills: 93 reached committee, 24 passed one chamber, 13 passed both, 12 became law. Cosponsored 101. 25.8% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Mississippi Senate 34.7%; rank 29 of 47).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SB 3339: General Fund; FY2027 appropriation to Town of Bruce for certain infrastructure projects. (in committee, 2026-02-25) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB3339/
- SB 3347: General Fund; FY2027 appropriation to City of Houston for certain infrastructure projects. (in committee, 2026-02-25) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB3347/
- SB 3352: General Fund; FY2027 appropriation to Calhoun County for upgrades and improvements to the county jail. (in committee, 2026-02-25) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB3352/
- SB 3340: General Fund; FY2027 appropriation to Yalobusha County for certain infrastructure projects. (in committee, 2026-02-25) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB3340/
- SB 3336: General Fund; FY2027 appropriation to Pontotoc County for E911 Emergency Management Center upgrades. (in committee, 2026-02-25) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB3336/
- SB 3232: General Fund; FY2027 appropriation to the Neshoba County General Hospital for a nursing school in conjunction with MUW. (in committee, 2026-02-25) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB3232/
- SB 3345: General Fund; FY2027 appropriation to the Town of Calhoun City for certain projects. (in committee, 2026-02-25) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB3345/
- SB 3342: General Fund; FY2027 appropriation to the Village of Pittsboro for certain infrastructure projects. (in committee, 2026-02-25) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB3342/
- SB 3348: General Fund; FY2027 appropriation to Calhoun County for the repair and resurfacing of County Road 306. (in committee, 2026-02-25) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB3348/
- SB 3334: General Fund; FY2027 appropriation to the Town of Coffeeville for repairing and repaving its town streets. (in committee, 2026-02-25) https://openstates.org/ms/bills/2026/SB3334/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $18.6K (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/members/senate/suber.xml
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/suberforsenate/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bensuber/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/ba13036f-790b-4745-b008-eeb74f1c86a1