# Jay Hovey

Jay Hovey is a Republican member of the Alabama Senate for district 27.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Alabama Senate, district 27
- Serving since: 2022-11-09
- Current term: AL 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/d581a562-c33c-44c0-a707-c21dddf140aa

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/d581a562-c33c-44c0-a707-c21dddf140aa (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

Hovey reported $575.4K in the 2026 cycle, in the top tenth of State Senate Republicans (median $46.2K).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.25 (standard error 0.04), from 167 donors and 179 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 33% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Legislation (AL 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 6 bills: 6 reached committee, 5 passed one chamber, 5 passed both, 5 became law. Cosponsored 0. 83.3% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Alabama Senate 60.8%; rank 4 of 35).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SB 365: Legal tender; authorizing the rounding of in-person cash transactions to the nearest five cents (in committee, 2026-04-07) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB365/
- SJR 70: Kelli Fischer, Alabama High School Principal of the Year, commended (became law, 2026-03-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SJR70/
- SB 324: Tallapoosa County; remote access of records fee authorized (became law, 2026-03-31) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB324/
- SB 329: Lee County; Lee County Revenue Commissioner authorized to perform duties of selling and redeeming land for taxes (became law, 2025-05-07) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/SB329/
- SB 301: Lee County, electronic filing of business property tax returns provided for (became law, 2025-05-06) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/SB301/
- SB 122: Southern Preparatory Academy, appropriation (became law, 2025-05-06) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/SB122/
- SB 344: Homeowners' associations; lot owner representation on board of directors, further provided (in committee, 2024-04-25) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2024rs/SB344/
- SJR 53: Providence Baptist Church, 140th Anniversary, celebrated (became law, 2024-04-25) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2024rs/SJR53/
- SB 282: Boats, motorboats, operation on Lewis Smith Lake, Lake Wedowee, and portion of Shoal Creek, wakeboarding and wakesurfing reg., operation near coastline… (in committee, 2024-05-07) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2024rs/SB282/
- SB 283: Motor vehicles and traffic; first responders operating upon roadways, distinguished from pedestrians (became law, 2024-05-09) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2024rs/SB283/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $575.4K (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 87% 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://jayhoveyforalabama.com/
- X: https://x.com/jayhovey
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jayhoveyalabamasenate/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jayhoveyforalabama/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-hovey-37668bb/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/d581a562-c33c-44c0-a707-c21dddf140aa