# Steve Livingston

Steve Livingston is a Republican member of the Alabama Senate for district 8.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Alabama Senate, district 8
- Serving since: 2014-11-05
- Current term: AL 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/dd765598-9bed-4301-9f49-7e06fffd7fce

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/dd765598-9bed-4301-9f49-7e06fffd7fce (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

Livingston reported $415.7K in the 2026 cycle, in the top tenth of State Senate Republicans (median $46.2K).

## What Livingston says (AL 2025–26 session)

37 classified statements: 37 posts on X. Each rate is the share of statements with the label, against the State Senate Republicans average; rank 1 is the highest rate.

| Label | Livingston | State Senate Republicans average | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal attacks | 0.0% | 2.3% | 272 of 354 |
| Policy criticism | 0.0% | 9.5% | 331 of 354 |
| Policy discussion | 46.0% | 37.3% | 121 of 354 |
| Bipartisanship | 2.7% | 2.3% | 112 of 354 |
| Credit claiming | 43.2% | 15.4% | 9 of 354 |
| Extreme labels | 0.0% | 1.3% | 261 of 354 |

Most discussed policy areas: Education 29% (State Senate Republicans 14%); Science, Technology, Communications 18% (State Senate Republicans 2.5%); Armed Forces and National Security 12% (State Senate Republicans 6.5%); Crime and Law Enforcement 12% (State Senate Republicans 12%); Transportation and Public Works 12% (State Senate Republicans 6.0%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.21 (standard error 0.03), from 30 donors and 589 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 28% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Legislation (AL 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 20 bills: 20 reached committee, 16 passed one chamber, 14 passed both, 14 became law. Cosponsored 0. 80.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Alabama Senate 60.8%; rank 5 of 35).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SB 370: Tax increment districts, Major 21st Century Manufacturing Zone allowed to be located within a tax increment district without regard to size of district and… (passed one chamber, 2026-04-01) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB370/
- SJR 78: North Sand Mountain Girls Basketball Team, commended (became law, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SJR78/
- SJR 77: Section Boys Basketball Team, commended (became law, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SJR77/
- SJR 68: Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan David Shultz, USAF (Retired), honored (became law, 2026-03-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SJR68/
- SJR 51: Junior Harold Sorrells, death mourned (became law, 2026-03-05) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SJR51/
- SB 196: Competitive bidding; purchase and installation of playground equipment by public K-12 schools, exempted (became law, 2026-03-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB196/
- SB 137: Alabama Resilience Council established, membership, responsibilities, and duties of council as an advisory group within the executive branch provided;… (became law, 2026-04-17) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB137/
- SB 19: Health care insurance; to eliminate cost-sharing for screening of men who are at high risk for prostate cancer (became law, 2026-02-26) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB19/
- SB 14: Contracts for public works; exemptions further provided (in committee, 2026-01-13) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB14/
- SJR 84: SkillsUSA State Competition Competitors, commended (became law, 2025-05-14) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2025rs/SJR84/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $415.7K (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 66% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Recent statements

Newest first. Posts on X are listed by date and link only.

- 2026-09-11 · Post on X · https://x.com/SenLivingstonAL/status/2098498781863915532
- 2026-07-29 · Post on X · https://x.com/SenLivingstonAL/status/2082525369320587698
- 2026-07-16 · Post on X · https://x.com/SenLivingstonAL/status/2077723753744625958
- 2026-06-27 · Post on X · https://x.com/SenLivingstonAL/status/2071007787690143965
- 2025-11-25 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion, credit claiming · https://x.com/SenLivingstonAL/status/1993436879874863260
- 2025-09-01 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion, credit claiming · https://x.com/SenLivingstonAL/status/1962604907225076180
- 2025-07-27 · Post on X · https://x.com/SenLivingstonAL/status/1949457067883831711
- 2025-07-08 · Post on X · labels: credit claiming · https://x.com/SenLivingstonAL/status/1942713254901362752
- 2025-06-12 · Post on X · https://x.com/SenLivingstonAL/status/1933232313111863338
- 2025-06-11 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/SenLivingstonAL/status/1932898537450463582

## Links

- Official site: https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/senate-leaders-members?tab=1&search=livingston
- Campaign site: https://alsenaterepublicans.org/representatives/008-steve-livingston/
- X: https://x.com/SenLivingstonAL
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveLivingstonForStateSenate/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senatorstevelivingston/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/senator-steve-livingston-33b4aa49/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/dd765598-9bed-4301-9f49-7e06fffd7fce