# Jason T. Dickerson (GA Senate D-21) — Legislator Fact Sheet · The GA Files > Jason T. Dickerson (R, Senate District 21 — Cherokee/north Fulton), who lent his own campaign $750,000: his votes, constituent access, and campaign money — a state-level legislator fact sheet. *Source: https://thegafiles.com/JasonDickerson.html · The GA Files (thegafiles.com)* --- State Level Legislator Fact Sheet · Georgia State Senate · District 21 # Jason T. Dickerson Party Republican In Office Oct 2025 – present Senate Role Member · Secretary, Banking & Financial Institutions Scope of This Review 2026 Jason T. Dickerson, a Republican and lifelong Cherokee County resident, represents Senate District 21 across parts of Cherokee and north Fulton. He co-founded Quest Trucking, a long-haul carrier that employed more than 500 people, and is founder and president of Purple Chip Capital Management, a private investment firm. He won the seat in the 2025 special election called after Sen. Brandon Beach resigned to become the 46th Treasurer of the United States, and was sworn in at the Cherokee County Courthouse on October 14, 2025. Because he took office between sessions, only the 2026 bills below reflect his own record. About half of everything his campaign has taken in is his own money, lent to the committee — see the money section. 2 / 3In his first (2026) session Dickerson voted **YEA on the homestead tax and public-camping bills** and was one of **14 senators to vote NO on the bipartisan medical-cannabis expansion**, which passed 38–14 anyway. (Earlier bills predate his October 2025 swearing-in and belong to his predecessor.) **Methodology.** Each vote is Sen. Dickerson's actual position from the official Georgia roll call (legis.ga.gov), transcribed into a verified vote database and cross-checked against the published Yea/Nay totals. The chamber tally and final status (became law / died in House) are noted per bill. 01 ## Property Tax Relief (LHOST) SB 33 · 2026 Session YEA Floor Vote Senate vote (Agree to House Substitute as Amended), 2026 session — 32–21 Status Became law (2026 session) Sen. Dickerson's Vote Voted **YEA** — with the chamber majority, on a party-line vote. ### Impact on Everyday Georgians Authorizes a local-option homestead sales tax and related homestead relief, letting communities offset rising property-tax bills driven by climbing home values. Supporters framed it as relief for homeowners squeezed by reassessments; critics noted sales taxes are regressive and that any relief depends on each community choosing to adopt it. #### Sources - [LegiScan — SB 33 bill text, history & roll calls](https://legiscan.com/GA/bill/SB33/2026) 02 ## Homelessness Enforcement HB 295 · 2026 Session YEA Floor Vote Senate vote (Agree to House Amendment to Senate Amendment), 2026 session — 34–19 Status Became law (2026 session) Sen. Dickerson's Vote Voted **YEA** — with the chamber majority, on a party-line vote. ### Impact on Everyday Georgians Restricts unsanctioned public camping and sleeping and presses local governments toward enforcement and state-directed approaches to homelessness. Supporters said it keeps public spaces safe and orderly; homeless-services advocates warned it criminalizes poverty and can push people away from services without adding any housing. #### Sources - [LegiScan — HB 295 bill text, history & roll calls](https://legiscan.com/GA/bill/HB295/2026) 03 ## Medical Cannabis Expansion SB 220 · 2026 Session NAY Floor Vote Senate vote (Agree to House Substitute as Amended), 2026 session — 38–14 Status Became law (2026 session) Sen. Dickerson's Vote Voted **NAY** — against the chamber majority, on a bipartisan vote. ### Impact on Everyday Georgians Expands Georgia's low-THC medical cannabis program — broadening the qualifying conditions and access for registered patients — and passed with bipartisan support. It widened eligibility for Georgians managing chronic and serious illnesses under the state's tightly regulated program. #### Sources - [LegiScan — SB 220 bill text, history & roll calls](https://legiscan.com/GA/bill/SB220/2026) Constituent Access ## Town Halls Public meetings with constituents · since Oct 2025 Dickerson came to the seat through a crowded seven-way special election, and his documented public-question events so far are candidate forums and delegation channels rather than a personal town-hall series. ## Documented Record - Before the special election, Dickerson answered voter questions at a **Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce candidate forum** on July 30, 2025 at the historic courthouse in downtown Canton, alongside the other District 21 candidates. - On taking office he was appointed to **Banking & Financial Institutions** (Secretary), **Natural Resources and the Environment**, **Public Safety**, and **Veterans, Military and Homeland Security**, plus ex-officio seats on Government Oversight and Transportation — announced January 16, 2026. - He has engaged constituents on local growth fights: with Sens. John Albers and Kay Kirkpatrick he publicly defended **HB 1029**, the Holly Springs charter and annexation bill, after the city sued over it in July 2026, saying the bill answered constituent concerns about the city’s annexation practices. - No recurring open-constituent town-hall series of his own is documented in local press as of August 2026. This section will be expanded as events are documented. Dickerson took office in October 2025; state legislators' constituent-event records are thin and locally reported. Corrections are welcome via the contact link below. ## Sources - [Committee appointments — Georgia Senate Press Office](https://senatepress.net/sen-jason-t-dickerson-announces-appointments-to-senate-committees.html) - [Sworn in at the Cherokee County Courthouse — Georgia Senate Press Office](https://senatepress.net/sen-jason-t-dickerson-sworn-in-as-georgia-state-senator-at-cherokee-county-courthouse.html) - [Jason Dickerson — Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Jason_Dickerson_(Georgia)) Campaign Finance ## Campaign Finance Who funded Sen. Dickerson · 2025 special election + 2026 Pinned — Half the money is his own $750,000 lent to himself · $500,000 still owed back Dickerson lent his own campaign **$750,000** in three installments during the 2025 special election — $500,000 on April 8, $100,000 on August 22, and $150,000 on September 5 — roughly half of everything his committee took in. His committee reports **$500,000 of that still outstanding**, which under Georgia law he may repay himself out of money raised later, including after the election. He finished second in the seven-way August special with 3,709 votes, then won the September runoff 61.5% to 38.5%. ## Identified Contributors **This is a partial list, and we say so plainly.** Dickerson’s committee reports roughly **$750,000** in contributions, but Georgia’s public transaction search does not return his itemized donor records — every one of his filed reports is flagged as not indexed, leaving about 1,415 itemized rows unsearchable. These four are the only individual donors currently retrievable. We are working to obtain the filed reports directly and will publish the full donor table when we have it. | # | Contributor | Total | | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Billy Hayes (Canton, GA) | $1,000.00 | | 2 | Jeremy Dickerson (Canton, GA) | $100.00 | | 3 | Ken Hippler (South Saint Paul, MN) | $15.62 | | 4 | Zachary Bennett (Acworth, GA) | $2.00 | **$750,118** raised · **$651,946** cash on hand — as of **May 6, 2026** (GA Ethics latest filing). Source: The GA Files' tally of primary Georgia Ethics Commission records — the 2022–2025 archive system (special-election filings) plus PeachFile (2026 onward). Loans are reported separately from contributions under Georgia's disclosure rules. Through the 2026 Apr 30 CCDR, filed May 6, 2026, the committee reports $750,117.62 in cumulative contributions, $848,171.51 in cumulative expenditures and $651,946.11 cash on hand; its cumulative loans-received figure of $1,000,000 does not reconcile with the $750,000 itemized in the filings or with the reported balance, and we have not resolved that discrepancy. Corrections are welcome. ## Sources - [Georgia Ethics Commission (PeachFile) — campaign finance](https://peachfile.ethics.ga.gov) - [Georgia Ethics Commission — official filings](https://media.ethics.ga.gov/search/Campaign/Campaign_ReportLog.aspx) - [OpenSecrets — Georgia state](https://www.opensecrets.org/states/GA) ## Verification Resources - [Georgia General Assembly — Senate roll-call votes](https://www.legis.ga.gov/votes/senate) - [Jason Dickerson — Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Jason_Dickerson_(Georgia)) - [Open States — Georgia legislators & votes](https://openstates.org/ga/legislators/) - [Georgia Ethics Commission — 2022–2025 campaign-finance records](https://recordsearch.ethics.ga.gov/) - [Georgia Ethics Commission — PeachFile (2026 onward)](https://peachfile.ethics.ga.gov/) Vote positions are Sen. Dickerson's actual recorded votes from the official Georgia roll calls (legis.ga.gov), transcribed into a verified vote database and cross-checked against the published Yea/Nay totals. Campaign-finance figures are pulled live from the Georgia Government Transparency & Campaign Finance Commission (PeachFile) and are current to the committee's most recent filed disclosure report; Georgia does not produce OpenSecrets-style sector/industry rollups. [← All Legislators](https://thegafiles.com/legislators.html)