[2][3] On August 20, 2019, Bass was selected to fill the remainder of Mike Mosura's term representing District 5 of the Bossier Parish School Board.
[4] There was a special election scheduled for April 4, 2020, to fill the remainder of Mosura's term, which Bass won unopposed.
[2] Bass ran against incumbent Republican Robert Mills for the 36th district in the 2023 Louisiana State Senate election.
He criticized Mills for being insufficiently conservative, in particular for voting for two spending bills that Bass viewed as unnecessary.
[8] Following his victory, Bass resigned from the Bossier Parish School Board in December 2023, leading to a 2024 special election for the remainder of his term;[9] in January 2024, Logan McConathy, an insurance agent, was appointed to hold the seat on an interim basis.