R Alabama Senate · District 29

Sen. Donnie Chesteen

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Session

Total votes

6,007

all sessions

Attendance

89%

546 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

99%

of cast votes

Higher than 75% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

0%

crosses aisle rarely

Lower than 89% of chamber peers

Sponsored

75

bills & resolutions

Near the chamber average

Committees

8

assignments

Biography

About Sen. Donnie Chesteen

Sen. serving Alabama District 29. Member of the Republican party. Has been in office 7 years · 10 months. Serves on 8 committees, including Education Policy, Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Safety and Agriculture Conservation and Forestry.

Sworn in

Nov 7, 2018

7 years · 10 months

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Last activity

Recent legislative activity

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SB 350State Health Planning and Development Agency; collaboration among rural health care providers authorized; certification and supervision framework established, limited immunity from state and federal antitrust laws provided died

5 months ago

SB 363Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs; Alabama Centralized Grant Management Database, established to maintain lists of available grants passed

5 months ago

SB 75Public works contracts; exemption established for purchases made through cooperative purchasing agreements, requirements for certain public contracts to comply with applicable state or local competitive bid laws provided passed

5 months ago

SB 168Public K-12 education; to prohibit the three-cueing system of reading instruction signed

6 months ago

SB 71Administrative rules; adopting environmental protection criteria stricter than federal requirements prohibited signed

6 months ago

SB 72Alabama Commission on Higher Education, ReEngage Alabama Grant Program, minimum age of adult learner decreased, eligibility requirements revised passed

6 months ago

SB 74Alabama Math and Science Teacher Education Program (AMSTEP), renamed the Loan Assistance in Support of Educators in Alabama (LASEA) Program; providing loan assistance in acute educator shortage programs as determined by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education in consultation with the State Department of Education and the Alabama Commission on the Evaluation of Services passed

6 months ago

SB 21Offices of Governor; Lieutenant Governor; Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court; judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals or Court of Criminal Appeals; judge of a circuit court or district court; member of the Legislature; Attorney General; State Auditor; Secretary of State; State Treasurer; Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries; member of the State Board of Education; and local sheriff, district attorney, circuit clerk, or constable required to be held by a natural born citizen of the United States, Constitutional Amendment in committee

7 months ago

SB 73Public K-12 schools; membership in athletic associations with boards of certain composition, that enforce certain rules, prohibited; Legislative Council authorization of entities' rulemaking, permitted in committee

8 months ago

SB 345Geneva County, section providing for compensation of superintendent of education, repealed signed

1 year ago