Rep. Tom Bevill
Former Representative for Alabama’s 4th District
![Photo of Rep. Tom Bevill [D-AL4, 1973-1996]](/https/www.govtrack.us/static/legislator-photos/401417-200px.jpeg)
Enacted Legislation
Bevill was the primary sponsor of 23 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 2982 (104th): Carbon Hill National Fish Hatchery Conveyance Act
- H.R. 4506 (103rd): Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1995
- H.R. 2445 (103rd): Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1994
- H.R. 3665 (102nd): Little River Canyon National Preserve Act of 1992
- H.R. 5373 (102nd): Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1993
- H.R. 2427 (102nd): Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1992
- H.R. 5019 (101st): Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1991
Does 23 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Bevill sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Environmental Protection (16%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (16%) Water Resources Development (13%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (13%) Government Operations and Politics (13%) Science, Technology, Communications (10%) Emergency Management (10%) Agriculture and Food (10%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Bevill recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 2982 (104th): Carbon Hill National Fish Hatchery Conveyance Act
- H.R. 4506 (103rd): Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1995
- H.R. 2578 (103rd): To ensure fair resolution of commercial disputes between United States firms and …
- H.R. 2445 (103rd): Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1994
- H.R. 5373 (102nd): Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1993
- H.R. 3665 (102nd): Little River Canyon National Preserve Act of 1992
- H.R. 2427 (102nd): Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1992
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1967 to Sep 1996, Bevill missed 1,035 of 14,580 roll call votes, which is 7.1%. This is much worse than the median of 2.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1996. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills