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Republican · Senator

Bill Sharer

Represents District 1 in the State Senate.

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Votes with Republicans

83%

on 29 party-line votes · Senate Republicans median 90%

Cast a vote

95%

Yea or Nay on 103 of 108 roll calls · Senate median 95%

Their bills that became law

0 of 7

as a primary sponsor, this session · Republicans median 0

Roll calls on record

108

2026 Regular Session

Votes and bills updated Oct 5, 2026 from LegiScan (CC BY 4.0), which republishes the legislature’s own records. Profile details from OpenStates / Plural Policy. Figures cover 2026 Regular Session.

How Bill Sharer votes

A party-line vote is a roll call where most voting Democrats and most voting Republicans took opposite sides. Absences and not-voting are never counted. Same method as our Congress pages.

Where Bill Sharer sits in the Senate

Each dot is one member of the Senate, placed by how often they voted on the Democratic side of party-line votes. Bill Sharer is circled.

Always on the Republican sideAlways on the Democratic side

Times they broke with their party

5 of 29 party-line votes.

HB200 · New Homes For New Mexico Program

Yea

Senate Final Passage · 2026-02-19 · Passed 22–13 · most Republicans voted the other way

HB165 · Payment Of Certain Irb Special Assessments

Yea

Senate Final Passage · 2026-02-18 · Passed 30–10 · most Republicans voted the other way

SB96 · Regulated Child Care Zoning Requirements

Yea

Senate Final Passage · 2026-02-11 · Passed 25–13 · most Republicans voted the other way

SB58 · Extend Property Tax Exemption Period

Yea

Senate Final Passage · 2026-02-05 · Passed 27–8 · most Republicans voted the other way

SB2 · State Highway Project Bonds

Yea

Senate Final Passage · 2026-01-23 · Passed 31–9 · most Republicans voted the other way

Closest votes they cast

Roll calls decided by the fewest votes, one per bill.

SB235 · Microgrid Oversight Act

Nay

Senate Final Passage · 2026-02-14 · Passed 22–20

HJR5 · Legislative Compensation, Ca

Nay

Senate Final Passage · 2026-02-17 · Passed 23–19

SB18 · Clear Horizons & Emissions Codification

Nay

Senate Final Passage · 2026-02-11 · Failed 19–23

SB17 · Stop Illegal Gun Trade Act

Nay

Senate Final Passage · 2026-02-07 · Passed 21–17

SB246 · Massage Therapy Practice Changes

Yea

Senate Final Passage · 2026-02-17 · Passed 22–17

Democrats they vote with most

Share of contested roll calls (the losing side got at least 10%) where both voted and landed on the same side. Unanimous votes are left out, because on those everyone agrees.

George MuñozDemocrat · District 4 · 27 shared contested votes

56%

Pete CamposDemocrat · District 8 · 35 shared contested votes

46%

Bobby GonzalesDemocrat · District 6 · 32 shared contested votes

44%

Their session, month by month

Dark bars are roll calls they were recorded on each month; the red part is the ones without a Yea or Nay (5 in all). Gaps are months the chamber wasn’t voting.

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Their bills, from filing to law

Bills Bill Sharer was a primary sponsor of this session. Most bills from either party never leave committee; in Illinois many never get past the Assignments or Rules committee.

Introduced7

Out of committee1

Passed one chamber0

Passed both chambers0

Became law0

Never left committee6

For comparison, the median Republican member of the Senate has 0 bills that became law this session.

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