Rankings Senate · 2025 to 2026 session · 38 members
How far each member's own bills got, adjusted for chamber and majority status (1.00 = typical for the group). Check up to five members and press Compare.
“Became law” counts the member's own-chamber bills; “+n” is bills they carried in the second chamber that became law. Group averages (points): House minority 8.10 (52 members) · House majority 39.98 (58 members) · Senate minority 16.33 (18 members) · Senate majority 76.75 (20 members).
How the score works
- What counts. Bills and joint resolutions of the 2025 to 2026 session in the Open States data. Simple and concurrent resolutions are left out of the score.
- Authored in the member's own chamber (principal author): 1 point if it passed committee, +2 if it passed that chamber, +2 if it passed both chambers, +5 if it became law. Maximum 10 per measure.
- Carried in the second chamber (principal author for the other chamber): half of (1 if it passed the second chamber's committee, +2 if it passed, +5 if it became law).
- Adjustment for chamber and majority status. Points are divided by the average points of the member's group (House majority, House minority, Senate majority or Senate minority), so 1.00 means “typical for a member in the same position.” Democrats hold the majority in the Senate; Republicans hold the majority in the House. Rank is within the chamber.
Read with care. This is a transparent count of how far a member's own bills went, not a judgment of the member's work. It does not weigh a bill's importance, and it misses amendments, conference work, constituent service and blocking bad bills. Leadership files many bills that never move, and members elected mid-term had less time. Data: Open States bill actions and sponsors (bulk data of November 1, 2026); official records are on the Michigan Legislature's own sites.
Sources for this page
- Open States bulk data: https://data.openstates.org/postgres/monthly/2026-11-public.pgdump, copied November 2, 2026
Counts from Open States bulk data. Michigan Capitol Guide is not endorsed by the Michigan Legislature.