Mary Beth Canty

Seat	House District 54
Party	Democratic
Capitol office	Room 280-S · Stratton Office Building
Mailing address	Room 280-S, Stratton Office Building, Springfield, IL 62706
Capitol phone	217-782-8026
Legislative assistant	Chibu Asonye
Write to	info@repmbc.com (office address in the official directory)
Hometown	Arlington Heights
Tenure	Serving since January 2023
Term limited	No term limits

Committees 6

House Judiciary: Civil Committee Vice chair standing
House Appropriations: Public Safety and Infrastructure Committee standing
House Child Care Accessibility and Early Childhood Committee standing
House Housing Committee standing
House Transportation: Regulation, Roads and Bridges Committee standing
House Veterans' Affairs Committee standing

Bills, 104th General Assembly 48 as principal author · 272 as coauthor

All 48 bills as principal author ›

Coauthor of HB 1085, HB 1141, HB 1302, HB 1312, HB 1575, HB 1697, HB 1710, HB 1715, HB 1787, HB 1810, HB 1836, HB 2142 and 260 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

0.9164th of 118 in the House
46th percentile

Bills & joint resolutions authored	39
… passed committee / chamber / both	11 / 10 / 5
… became law	4
Carried in the other chamber (became law)	6 (3)
Points vs. House majority average	73 ÷ 79.85 = 0.91
Most-authored topics	Budget & taxes (8), Health & mental health (8), Courts & civil law (7)

House 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

Nicolle Grasse DHouse 53 136
Kelly Cassidy DHouse 14 126
Mike Crawford DHouse 31 125
Laura Faver Dias DHouse 62 120
Camille Lilly DHouse 78 114
Lilian Jiménez DHouse 4 105
Yolonda Morris DHouse 9 105
Dee Avelar DHouse 85 101
Lisa Davis DHouse 32 96
Maura Hirschauer DHouse 49 95

“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 54

Counties: Cook
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Senate members sharing a county: Javier Cervantes (1), Omar Aquino (2), Mattie Hunter (3), Kimberly Lightford (4), Lakesia Collins (5), Sara Feigenholtz (6), Mike Simmons-Gessesse (7), Ram Villivalam (8), Laura Fine (9), Rob Martwick (10), Mike Porfirio (11), Celina Villanueva (12), Robert Peters (13), Emil Jones (14), Napoleon Harris (15), Willie Preston (16), Elgie Sims (17), Bill Cunningham (18), Mike Hastings (19), Graciela Guzmán (20), Cristina Castro (22), Seth Lewis (24), Karina Villa (25), Darby Hills (26), Mark Walker (27), Laura Murphy (28), Julie Morrison (29), Adriane Johnson (30), Don Harmon (39), Patrick Joyce (40), John Curran (41)

District 54 outlined; neighbours link to their members. Full map › · Census 2024 boundaries, simplified.

Official district map: see the official House page.

Lobbyist reports naming this member 2025 to 2026

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Source

Copied from https://www.ilga.gov/House/Members/Details/3424 on November 2, 2026, through Open States people data (CC0), checked against official legislature rosters. Not endorsed by the Illinois House of Representatives.