# David Sessions

David Sessions is a Republican member of the Alabama Senate for district 35.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Alabama Senate, district 35
- Serving since: 2018-11-07
- Current term: AL 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/fa2c59ea-1a07-429d-85e4-9c60652919aa

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/fa2c59ea-1a07-429d-85e4-9c60652919aa (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 Sessions’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Alabama, in the top quarter of State Senate Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.15 (standard error 0.03), from 24 donors and 518 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 21% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Legislation (AL 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 20 bills: 20 reached committee, 10 passed one chamber, 9 passed both, 9 became law. Cosponsored 0. 50.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Alabama Senate 60.8%; rank 27 of 35).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SB 343: Mobile County; temporary judges of probate, appointment amended (became law, 2026-04-06) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB343/
- SJR 47: John J. Guthrie, Jr., death mourned (became law, 2026-03-03) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SJR47/
- SB 263: Animal abandonment; criminal penalties, authority to seize, disposition procedures; established (in committee, 2026-04-07) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB263/
- SB 169: Crimes and offenses; manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, and other motor vehicle crimes amended, restitution amended (became law, 2026-02-19) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB169/
- SB 140: Juvenile proceedings; court required to notify local superintendent of education or private K-12 school principal of charging or adjudicating an enrolled… (in committee, 2026-04-07) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB140/
- SB 90: Seafood dealer license; license fee for applicants holding other seafood licenses revised; retroactive effect provided (became law, 2026-03-05) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB90/
- SB 125: Taxation; to establish an income tax credit for oyster shell recycling (in committee, 2026-04-07) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB125/
- SB 89: State Pilotage Commission; statewide laws repealed (became law, 2026-02-03) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB89/
- SB 124: State waters; Alabama Seagrass Restoration Task Force established to remediate seagrass loss (in committee, 2026-04-07) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB124/
- SB 123: Taxation; to exempt certain retail sales of fish or other seafood from sales and use taxes (in committee, 2026-04-07) https://openstates.org/al/bills/2026rs/SB123/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $211.3K (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=sessions
- Campaign site: https://alsenaterepublicans.org/representatives/0035-david-sessions/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlabamaSenate35/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/fa2c59ea-1a07-429d-85e4-9c60652919aa