Javier Cervantes

Seat	Senate District 1
Party	Democratic
Capitol office	Room 625 · State Capitol
Mailing address	Room 625, Capitol Building, Springfield, IL 62706
Capitol phone	217-782-9415
Legislative assistant	Mary Russell
Hometown	Chicago
Tenure	Serving since 2022
Term limited	No term limits

Committees 6

Senate Criminal Law Committee Chair standing
Senate Licensed Activities Committee Vice chair standing
Senate Appropriations-Education Committee standing
Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee standing
Senate Labor Committee standing
Senate Pensions Committee standing

Bills, 104th General Assembly 60 as principal author · 309 as coauthor

All 60 bills as principal author ›

Coauthor of HB 1085, HB 1141, HB 1189, HB 1226, HB 1278, HB 1312, HB 1373, HB 1586, HB 1628, HB 1648, HB 1836, HB 2270 and 297 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

0.8934th of 59 in the Senate
44th percentile

Bills & joint resolutions authored	47
… passed committee / chamber / both	9 / 9 / 9
… became law	8
Carried in the other chamber (became law)	12 (8)
Points vs. Senate majority average	118.5 ÷ 132.55 = 0.89
Most-authored topics	Health & mental health (13), Budget & taxes (13), Children, families & social services (8)

Senate rankings · How the score works. A count of bill progress, not a judgment of the member's work.

Closest allies co-authorship, 2025 to 2026

Most bills written together

Graciela Guzmán DSenate 20 150
Mary Edly-Allen DSenate 31 150
Rachel Ventura DSenate 43 145
Karina Villa DSenate 25 123
Mike Porfirio DSenate 11 112
Lakesia Collins DSenate 5 109
Mike Simmons-Gessesse DSenate 7 109
Mattie Hunter DSenate 3 105
Dave Koehler DSenate 46 98
Robert Peters DSenate 13 93

“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 1

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 1 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/3403 on November 2, 2026, through Open States people data (CC0), checked against official legislature rosters. Not endorsed by the Illinois State Senate.