Chad Fincher

Fincher currently serves as chairman on the House Agriculture and Forestry Committee. Other committees Fincher serves on include:

• House Ways and Means Committee
• Mobile County Delegation Committee
• Water Policy and Management Joint Legislative Committee
• Joint Legislative Committee on State Parks
• Housing Finance Authority Legislative Oversight Committee
• Permanent Joint Legislative Committee on Energy Policy
• Southern Legislative Conferences Agriculture and Rural Development Committee
• Southern Regional Education Board Legislative Advisory Council

In the 2013 Legislative Session, Fincher sponsored the School Flexibility Act, now known (after a controversial rewrite to encompass private school vouchers) as the Alabama Accountability Act, which established flexibility contracts between the State Board of Education and local school districts, and establishes a scholarship program for children in failing schools as well as taxpayer funds for private schools.^[4]

Fincher ran in a 2013 special election to represent Alabama's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, following Jo Bonner's retirement.^[5] Fincher finished third in the Republican primary, behind Bradley Byrne and Dean Young.^[6] In his concession speech he described himself as a social and fiscal conservative.