# Sarita Simmons

Sarita Simmons is a Democratic member of the Mississippi Senate for district 13.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Mississippi Senate, district 13
- Serving since: 2020-01-07
- Current term: MS 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/f1012c43-9559-4f7a-8b70-8dd9cf88bab1

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/f1012c43-9559-4f7a-8b70-8dd9cf88bab1 (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

Simmons voted against the majority of Mississippi Senate Democrats 66 times; party unity 53%, in the bottom 5% of the Mississippi Senate (average 88%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.21 (standard error 0.01), from 11 donors and 868 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 95% of State Senate Democrats score lower.

## Votes (MS 2025–26 session)

2,118 roll calls. Attendance 98.7% (Mississippi Senate 97.1%). Party unity 53% (88%). 66 votes against the party majority.

Key votes:

- 2026-07-16 · voted not voting · Passage · HB 2 Appropriation; Department of Human Services of. · pass · https://openstates.org/ms/bills/20261E/HB2/
- 2026-07-16 · voted not voting · 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 yea · 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 0 bills: 0 reached committee, 0 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 181.

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $2,500 (State Senate Democrats median $55.5K). Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/members/senate/simmons_(13th).xml
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarita4senate/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/srita.smons/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarita-simmons-88835017/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/f1012c43-9559-4f7a-8b70-8dd9cf88bab1