# Dan Roberts

Dan Roberts is a Republican member of the Alabama Senate for district 15.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Alabama Senate, district 15
- Serving since: 2018-11-07
- Current term: AL 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/c58c02cd-0f5c-4454-b5d9-6eb0e604ea25

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/c58c02cd-0f5c-4454-b5d9-6eb0e604ea25 (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

Roberts sits at +0.82 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 95% of State Senate Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.82 (standard error 0.03), from 170 donors and 558 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 95% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Legislation (AL 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 13 bills: 13 reached committee, 7 passed one chamber, 5 passed both, 5 became law. Cosponsored 0. 53.8% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Alabama Senate 60.8%; rank 25 of 35).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SB 294: Public Officers and Employees; Division of Risk Management authorized to provide bond program, authorize delinquencies, notification required (passed one chamber, 2026-04-01) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB294/
- SB 245: Income Taxes, tax deduction for members of a Health Care Sharing Ministry for certain health care sharing expenses (in committee, 2026-04-07) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB245/
- SB 236: Taxation; Life on Wheels, exempt from state, county, and municipal sales and use taxes (in committee, 2026-02-24) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB236/
- SB 193: Contract Review Permanent Legislative Oversight Committee, review of personal or professional services contracts, limitation that funds be issued on a state… (in committee, 2026-01-21) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB193/
- SB 197: Food trucks and other mobile food vendors; require one health inspection and fire inspection to apply statewide (became law, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB197/
- SB 170: Health insurance, safe harbor created (became law, 2026-03-31) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB170/
- SB 138: Franchises; prohibit franchisor from requiring franchisee to operate on a religious day, exceptions provided (became law, 2026-04-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB138/
- SB 79: Individual income taxes, to allow an exclusion from gross income for contributions to Trump Accounts and to make permanent the exclusion for amounts paid by… (passed one chamber, 2026-02-25) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB79/
- SB 330: Certain municipal water works boards reconstituted, operating procedures further provided for (became law, 2025-05-07) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/SB330/
- SB 274: Psychoactive derivatives of CBD; Possession prohibited; criminal penalties provided for violations (in committee, 2025-05-06) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/SB274/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $542.3K (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/senate-leaders-members?tab=1&search=dan%20roberts
- Campaign site: https://www.danrobertsforsenate.com/
- X: https://x.com/SenDanRoberts
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DanRoberts4StateSenate/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danrobertsforalabama/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/c58c02cd-0f5c-4454-b5d9-6eb0e604ea25