Celina Villanueva

Seat	Senate District 12
Party	Democratic
Capitol office	Room 631 · State Capitol
Mailing address	Room 631, Capitol Building, Springfield, IL 62706
Capitol phone	217-782-5304
Legislative assistant	Vacant
Hometown	Chicago
Tenure	Serving since 2020 (also served House 2019 to 2020)
Term limited	No term limits

Committees 6

Senate Revenue Committee Chair standing
Senate Appropriations Committee standing
Senate Appropriations-Public Safety and Infrastructure Committee standing
Senate Criminal Law Committee standing
Senate Labor Committee standing
Senate Transportation Committee standing

Bills, 104th General Assembly 118 as principal author · 95 as coauthor

All 118 bills as principal author ›

Coauthor of HB 1312, HB 1697, HB 1806, HB 1810, HB 228, HB 2371, HB 2409, HB 2436, HB 2568, HB 2688, HB 3247, HB 3352 and 83 more.

Bills and sponsors: Open States bulk data (public domain dedication), 2026-11-public.pgdump; status is read from the official actions. About the momentum score

Effectiveness 104th General Assembly, 2025 to 2026

1.0128th of 59 in the Senate
54th percentile

Bills & joint resolutions authored	79
… passed committee / chamber / both	9 / 9 / 7
… became law	7
Carried in the other chamber (became law)	25 (14)
Points vs. Senate majority average	133.5 ÷ 132.55 = 1.01
Most-authored topics	Budget & taxes (30), Health & mental health (11), Schools (K-12) (9)

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Closest allies co-authorship, 2025 to 2026

Most bills written together

Mary Edly-Allen DSenate 31 75
Graciela Guzmán DSenate 20 74
Javier Cervantes DSenate 1 68
Rachel Ventura DSenate 43 66
Mike Simmons-Gessesse DSenate 7 64
Karina Villa DSenate 25 57
Robert Peters DSenate 13 56
Mike Porfirio DSenate 11 53
Lakesia Collins DSenate 5 50
Sara Feigenholtz DSenate 6 49

“Written together” = 104th General Assembly bills and joint resolutions on which both are principal author or coauthor (measures with more than 60 sponsors are left out). Sharing bills does not imply a personal or political alliance.

District 12

Counties: Cook
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House members sharing a county: Aarón Ortíz (1), Lisa Hernandez (2), Eva-Dina Delgado (3), Lilian Jiménez (4), Kimberly Du Buclet (5), Sonya Harper (6), Chris Welch (7), La Shawn Ford (8), Yolonda Morris (9), Omar Williams (10), Ann Williams (11), Margaret Croke (12), Hoan Huynh (13), Kelly Cassidy (14), Michael Kelly (15), Kevin Olickal (16), Jen Gong-Gershowitz (17), Robyn Gabel (18), Lindsey LaPointe (19), Brad Stephens (20), Abdelnasser Rashid (21), Angie Guerrero-Cuellar (22), Edgar González (23), Theresa Mah (24), Curtis Tarver (25), Kam Buckner (26), Justin Slaughter (27), Bob Rita (28), Thaddeus Jones (29), Will Davis (30), Mike Crawford (31), Lisa Davis (32), Marcus Evans (33), Nick Smith (34), Mary Gill (35), Rick Ryan (36), Patrick Sheehan (37), Debbie Meyers-Martin (38), Will Guzzardi (39), Jaime Andrade (40), Anna Moeller (43), Fred Crespo (44), Jennifer Sanalitro (48), Maura Hirschauer (49), Nabeela Syed (51), Marty McLaughlin (52), Nicolle Grasse (53), Mary Beth Canty (54), Justin Cochran (55), Michelle Mussman (56), Tracy Katz Muhl (57), Bob Morgan (58), Dan Didech (59), Norma Hernandez (77), Camille Lilly (78), Anthony DeLuca (80), Nicole La Ha (82)

District 12 outlined; neighbours link to their members. Full map › · Census 2024 boundaries, simplified.

Official district map: see the official Senate page.

Lobbyist reports naming this member 2025 to 2026

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Source

Copied from https://www.ilga.gov/Senate/Members/Details/3375 on November 2, 2026, through Open States people data (CC0), checked against official legislature rosters. Not endorsed by the Illinois State Senate.