Mississippi House · District 46

Karl Oliver

Republican

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Votes with the Speaker 94% On 277 contested votes where both voted · 99% on all votes Votes with own party 98% Partisan rank: 26 of 120 in the House (tied with 17 others) Didn't vote at roll call 2% 45 of 2,367 roll calls

Statewide bills passed 19 30 sponsored · 19 became law · Rank 8 of 120 in the House Local and private bills passed 0 2 sponsored · 0 became law

Where they sit

Every current House member, placed from most liberal to most conservative by how they voted on contested bills.

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Karl Oliver's seat is marked. Seats run from most liberal (left) to most conservative (right), by contested floor votes. Color shows how often each member crosses party lines toward the middle on votes that divide the parties: solid blue or red means almost never, and purple means on at least 1 in 5 of those votes. Gray seats are members too new to score. How these numbers work

Mississippi House76thpercentile

More conservative than 76% of the Mississippi House.

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29th most conservative of 120

The scores

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Votes with the Speaker

94%

Each tick is a current House member, by party; the dot is Karl Oliver.

On 277 contested votes where both voted99% on all 2,319 votes where both voted

Votes with own party

98%

Each tick is a current House member, by party; the dot is Karl Oliver.

On 159 party-line votesPartisan rank: 26 of 120 in the House (tied with 17 others)25 House members vote with their party more often

Bills

The bills Karl Oliver sponsored this term and how far they got. Co-sponsors aren’t counted.

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Bills: Karl Oliver
	Statewide	Local and private
Sponsored	30	2
Passed both chambers	19	0
Became law	19	0
Vetoed by the Governor	0	0

Rank by statewide bills passed: Rank 8 of 120 in the House · 8 of 77 Republicans

A bill's sponsors are its principal authors, as the Legislature lists them; co-authors aren't counted. Local and private bills (for one county, city or district) are counted and shown apart, not ranked.

Bills that passed both chambers

Bills that passed both chambers: Karl Oliver
Bill	Type	Result	Final action
HB 1935 (2026 Regular Session) Appropriation; Education, Department of	Statewide	Became law	April 8, 2026
HB 1938 (2026 Regular Session) Appropriation; Transportation, Department of	Statewide	Became law	April 6, 2026
HB 1936 (2026 Regular Session) Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for	Statewide	Became law	April 6, 2026
HB 1934 (2026 Regular Session) Appropriation; Arts Commission	Statewide	Became law	April 6, 2026
HB 1937 (2026 Regular Session) Appropriation; Library Commission	Statewide	Became law	March 25, 2026
HB 45 (2025 First Extraordinary Session) Appropriation; Transportation, Department of	Statewide	Became law	June 17, 2025
HB 42 (2025 First Extraordinary Session) Appropriation; Education, Department of	Statewide	Became law	June 17, 2025
HB 44 (2025 First Extraordinary Session) Appropriation; Library Commission	Statewide	Became law	June 4, 2025
HB 43 (2025 First Extraordinary Session) Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for	Statewide	Became law	June 4, 2025
HB 41 (2025 First Extraordinary Session) Appropriation; Arts Commission	Statewide	Became law	June 4, 2025
HB 1826 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation; Transportation, Department of	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2024
HB 1823 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation; Education, Department of	Statewide	Became law	May 13, 2024
HB 1825 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation; Library Commission	Statewide	Became law	May 10, 2024
HB 1824 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for	Statewide	Became law	May 10, 2024
HB 1822 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation; Arts Commission	Statewide	Became law	May 10, 2024
HB 1952 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation; Public Safety, Department of, for purchases of ARPA eligible equipment	Statewide	Became law	May 8, 2024
HB 1951 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation; Health, Department of, for funding the ARPA Rural Water Associations Infrastructure Grant Program	Statewide	Became law	May 8, 2024
HB 1949 (2024 Regular Session) Appropriation; Administrative Office of Courts for eligible ARPA expenses	Statewide	Became law	May 8, 2024
HB 1855 (2024 Regular Session) Sales tax; exempt sales, leases or other retail transfers of certain fixed-wing aircraft	Statewide	Became law	April 25, 2024

Budget projects

Mississippi's appropriation bills don't say which legislator asked for an item, so there's no budget figure for Mississippi legislators.

Contested votes where they split

18 against the Speaker; 18 against most of their party.

Contested votes where they split: Karl Oliver
Date	Bill and motion	Their vote	Speaker	Most of their party
March 10, 2026	SB 2436: Black bear hunting season; require MDWFP to create and issue harvest tags for through a lottery system Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Nay
Feb. 12, 2026	HB 1361: Game check program; establish for white-tailed deer Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 10, 2026	HB 672: Alcoholic beverages; authorize governing authorities of wet jurisdictions to authorize package retail sales on Sunday Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 4, 2026	HB 895: Medical cannabis; eliminate mandatory follow-up visit and extend validity periods of certification and ID cards to 24 months Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
May 28, 2025	HB 46: Appropriations; additional for various state agencies for FY25 and FY26 Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
May 28, 2025	HB 43: Appropriation; Educational Television, Authority for Passage	Yea	Yea	Nay (split)
May 28, 2025	SB 2050: Special funds; revise and create certain within the State Treasury and transfer funds to Passage	Yea	Yea	Nay (split)
March 6, 2025	SB 2280: Mississippi Wild Turkey Stamp; establish Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 13, 2025	HB 927: Midwifery; provide for licensure and regulation of Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 13, 2025	HB 1157: Used motor vehicle dealers; require continuing education as a condition of application for licensure renewal Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Nay
Feb. 13, 2025	HB 1637: Hunting and fishing on another's land; revise provisions relating to payment of restitution Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Jan. 28, 2025	HB 553: Mississippi Wild Turkey Stamp; establish Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 25, 2024	HB 903: Machine gun; provide crime for conversion to Conference Committee Report	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 25, 2024	HB 1298: Mississippi Wild Turkey Stamp; establish Conference Committee Report	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
April 4, 2024	SB 2652: Wild turkey stamps; require for wild turkey hunters 16 years of age or older Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 14, 2024	HB 1208: Hunting and fishing on lands of others; revise provisions relating to and provide penalties for Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 13, 2024	HB 73: School attendance officers; transfer responsibility of employment from MDE to local school districts Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 12, 2024	HB 41: Podiatrist; authorize to perform ankle surgery when meet certain requirements Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
March 6, 2024	HB 37: Physical therapists; revise circumstances and criteria under which they may implement treatment without a referral Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)
Feb. 21, 2024	HB 1298: Mississippi Wild Turkey Stamp; establish Passage	Nay	Yea (split)	Yea (split)

Every roll call

How Karl Oliver voted on each of the 2,367 floor roll calls while in office, newest first.

Every roll call: Karl Oliver
Date	Vote	Their vote	Most of their party	Speaker	Yeas–nays
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Contact, committees and caucuses

Contact

Official page: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
Email: koliver@house.ms.gov
Capitol office: State Capitol Room 201-D, 400 High St., Jackson, MS 39201
601-359-3340
District office: P.O. Box 1018, Jackson, MS 39215

Committees

Appropriations E Chair
Agriculture
Appropriations A
Judiciary A
Public Property
Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks

Contact details and committee assignments from Open States' data on the Mississippi Legislature, which it collects from the chambers' websites, as of Oct. 15, 2026.

Source: the Mississippi Legislature's roll-call records, Jan. 2, 2024 to July 16, 2026. How these numbers work · Corrections