D Alabama Senate · District 18

Sen. Rodger Smitherman

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Total votes

5,987

all sessions

Attendance

92%

350 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

99%

of cast votes

Higher than 77% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

1%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

About Sen. Rodger Smitherman

Sen. serving Alabama District 18. Member of the Democratic party. Has been in office 30 years · 10 months. Serves on 13 committees, including Banking and Insurance, Confirmations and Education Policy.

Sworn in

Nov 8, 1995

30 years · 10 months

Closest ally

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SB 364Public K-12 education; violence prevention, conflict resolution, and mediation instruction required before graduation from high school beginning in sixth grade, State Board of Education required to adopt standards signed

4 months ago

SB 239Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Enforcement Act; certain temporary emergency child custody determinations authorized to become final signed

6 months ago

SB 195Decedents' estates, will contests, removal to circuit court authorized signed

6 months ago

SB 243Jefferson County, pistol permits further provided for passed

6 months ago

SJR 53Alicia Cannon, commended signed

6 months ago

SB 200Alabama Office of Minority Affairs; renamed to the Alabama Office of Civic Engagement signed

6 months ago

SJR 45Alicia Cannon, commended signed

6 months ago

SB 305Campus chaplains; public K-12 schools authorized to accept as volunteers, local boards of education and governing bodies authorized to vote on whether to allow, limitations provided passed

6 months ago

SB 311Education Trust Fund; supplemental appropriation year ending 2026 in committee

6 months ago

SB 262Jefferson County; sheriff compensation revised in committee

7 months ago