# Joyce Mason

Joyce Mason is a Democratic member of the Illinois House for district 61.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Illinois House, district 61
- Serving since: 2019-01-09
- Current term: IL 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/96f00b4c-0a56-4fe0-bd59-7d49eb93531c

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/96f00b4c-0a56-4fe0-bd59-7d49eb93531c (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

100% of Mason’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Illinois, in the top tenth of State House Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.58 (standard error 0.03), from 44 donors and 1,072 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 57% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Votes (IL 2025–26 session)

1,468 roll calls. Attendance 89% (Illinois House 92.6%). Party unity 99.7% (96.7%). 1 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (IL 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 90 bills: 80 reached committee, 38 passed one chamber, 12 passed both, 12 became law. Cosponsored 286. 52.2% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Illinois House 44.4%; rank 43 of 116).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HR 1048: CONGRATS-DONNA FREITAG (introduced, 2026-10-14) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HR1048/
- HR 1037: CONGRATS-VILL. OF LINDENHURST (introduced, 2026-09-25) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HR1037/
- HR 1034: MEMORIAL-MICHAEL R. WEHMAN SR. (introduced, 2026-09-22) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HR1034/
- HR 1017: MEMORIAL-PETER J. CAMPANELLA (introduced, 2026-08-24) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HR1017/
- HR 1013: CONGRATS-GALE GRAVES (introduced, 2026-08-06) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HR1013/
- HR 1005: HONORS-E. & C. SCHROEDER (introduced, 2026-07-23) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HR1005/
- HR 1002: CONGRATS-SIX FLAGS GREAT AMER. (introduced, 2026-07-21) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HR1002/
- HR 1000: MEMORIAL-DOROTHY A. KANE (introduced, 2026-07-20) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HR1000/
- HR 990: CONGRATS-WINTHROP HARBOR (introduced, 2026-07-07) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HR990/
- HR 973: CONGRATS-SWALCO (introduced, 2026-06-04) https://openstates.org/il/bills/104th/HR973/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $145.2K (State House Democrats median $40.4K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?GA=103&MemberID=3147
- Campaign site: https://www.votejoycemason.com/ https://www.repjoycemason.com/
- X: https://x.com/VoteJoyceMason
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VoteJoyceMason
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/repjoycemason/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/repjoycemason/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/votejoycemason/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/96f00b4c-0a56-4fe0-bd59-7d49eb93531c