# Rob Hutton

Rob Hutton is a Republican member of the Wisconsin Senate for district 5.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Wisconsin Senate, district 5
- Serving since: 2023-01-03
- Current term: WI 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/49d245a5-ad19-46cf-9857-581573c0b99b

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/49d245a5-ad19-46cf-9857-581573c0b99b (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

Hutton sits at +0.82 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 95% of State Senate Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.82 (standard error 0.02), from 740 donors and 416 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 95% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Votes (WI 2025–26 session)

191 roll calls. Attendance 100% (Wisconsin Senate 99.8%). Party unity 97.5% (97.3%). 7 votes against the party majority.

Key votes:

- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 911 Relating to: funding for a battery collection and recycling program and making an appropriation. (FE) · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB911/
- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 454 Relating to: a workforce home loan program. (FE) · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB454/
- 2026-03-17 · voted nay · CONCURRENCE · AB 182 Relating to: changes to the low-income housing tax credit. (FE) · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB182/
- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 604 Relating to: coverage under the Medical Assistance program for incarcerated individuals. (FE) · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB604/
- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 248 Relating to: vacancies in appointive state offices. · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB248/
- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 884 Relating to: who may purchase certain contractual services and technical changes to tax provisions related to qualified retirement plans and the film… · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB884/
- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 595 Relating to: compliance with the federal Help America Vote Act, voter registration data sharing agreements, removing ineligible voters from the… · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB595/
- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 373 Relating to: creating a refundable individual income tax credit for the parent of a stillbirth and making an appropriation. (FE) · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB373/
- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 685 Relating to: individual income tax subtraction for certain theft losses. (FE) · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB685/
- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 650 Relating to: funding for identity verification under the unemployment insurance law and making an appropriation. (FE) · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB650/

## Legislation (WI 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 68 bills: 68 reached committee, 27 passed one chamber, 21 passed both, 8 became law. Cosponsored 0. 73.5% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Wisconsin Senate 42.9%; rank 3 of 33).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SB 1059: Relating to: depositing tires on private property and providing a penalty. (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB1059/
- SB 1031: Relating to: creating an undergraduate assistance grant program for students enrolled in private nonprofit postsecondary institutions and making an… (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB1031/
- SB 1034: Relating to: prohibited employment for former members of the Public Service Commission. (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB1034/
- SJR 132: Relating to: designating the month of February 2026 as Career and Technical Education Month in Wisconsin. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SJR132/
- SB 994: Relating to: public affairs network request for proposals. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB994/
- SB 1: Relating to: onetime individual income tax rebates. (FE) (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB1/
- SB 995: Relating to: funding for individual income tax rebates and making an appropriation. (FE) (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB995/
- SB 940: Relating to: the rule-making authority of agencies. (FE) (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB940/
- SJR 127: Relating to: celebrating the 115th anniversary of the founding of Scouting America. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SJR127/
- SB 993: Relating to: registered interior designers supervising certain construction. (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB993/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $27.2K (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://rob-hutton.com/
- Campaign site: https://rob-hutton.com/
- X: https://x.com/Robert_Hutton
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hutton.Robert
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hutton_campaign/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe2QAQYkFzONnLYOe02JZIg
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-hutton-a8451828

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/49d245a5-ad19-46cf-9857-581573c0b99b