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Member of the State Assembly, District 7

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State of California

Member of the State Assembly, District 7

This person holds your district's seat in the California State Assembly (2-year term).

Assemblymember Josh Hoover took 50.9% of the June 2 vote. Democrat Amy L. Slavensky took 47.2%, a 3.7-point gap, leaving the incumbent a bare majority. The district covers Folsom, Citrus Heights and the eastern Sacramento suburbs.

The winner holds one of 80 Assembly seats for a two-year term, inside a 12-year lifetime cap on service in Sacramento. An Assemblymember authors bills, sits on the policy committees that decide which bills advance, and argues for the district's share of the annual state budget. Which party wins here determines whether this district's representative works inside the majority or the minority, and that materially changes what they can move.

Both parties are treating this as winnable and the funding shows it: the incumbent's campaign carries $143,000 in direct party money, one of eight campaigns on this ballot drawing party money at that scale. He also has one of the stronger minority-caucus records here. Weigh that against a challenger who came within four points while raising about a third as much.

Josh Hoover

Josh Hoover is the Republican Assemblymember for this Sacramento-area district. He is seeking a third term. Before the Assembly he was chief of staff to then-Assemblymember Kevin Kiley. He also served on the Folsom Cordova school board, where he pushed to reopen schools during the pandemic. He first won this seat in 2022, beating the sitting member by one point. He won again in 2024. He belongs to the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus and hosts a podcast called Point of Order. He wrote a bill called Ryla's Law that closes loopholes for child abusers.

In 2022 he won his first term by one point over the sitting Democrat, one of the closest Assembly races that year. His campaign says he is focused on opposing what it calls soft-on-crime policies and cutting rules it calls unreasonable.

He promises to keep working on public safety, school choice and parent input, more housing, less red tape for small businesses, and more accountability for homelessness spending.

Amy L. Slavensky

Amy Slavensky is a Democrat challenging the incumbent for this Sacramento-area district. She grew up in Fair Oaks and Carmichael. She says her family relied on food stamps and Medi-Cal, and that she put herself through college. She spent 40 years in California public schools as a teacher, a principal, and a superintendent. She retired as superintendent of Amador County schools in 2021. She later became interim deputy superintendent of the San Juan Unified School District. She has not served in the California Legislature or Congress.

She says today's leaders are failing on what matters most: affordability, health care, and education. Reporting says part of her motivation comes from her brother's homelessness and death. Reporting also says she led the Amador district through political pressure, personal threats, and hard budget choices during the pandemic.

She promises to hold spending accountable, fight price gouging, and push for affordable child care for everyone. On housing she promises less red tape and rental help to prevent homelessness. On health care she promises more mental health services. On education she promises better pay for teachers and staff and more early childhood programs.

Record in office

Josh Hoover (Republican) is the sitting Assemblymember for this district and is lead author of 35 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 12 of them signed into law. Amy L. Slavensky has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress; these records cover only those offices. Per the California Legislature's public bill data (leginfo bulk download), retrieved 2026-09-21.

Financial info

Josh Hoover

Primary — $1,067,347

$1,067,347raised
  • Small donors$746<1%
  • Individuals$73,5757%
  • PACs & committees$447,94842%
  • Party$143,00014%
  • Businesses & other orgs$389,65037%

November — $51,500

$51,500raised
  • Individuals$7001%
  • PACs & committees$32,90064%
  • Businesses & other orgs$17,90035%

Amy L. Slavensky

Primary — $380,259

$380,259raised
  • Small donors$7,3463%
  • Individuals$47,19218%
  • PACs & committees$190,07472%
  • Businesses & other orgs$1,7501%
  • Self-funding$16,9436%

November — $59,047

$59,047raised
  • Individuals$6,89912%
  • PACs & committees$52,04988%
  • Self-funding$99<1%

Figures are CA Form 460 filings through June 30, 2026 by committees controlled by each candidate, and can include transfers from a candidate's earlier committees. Semi-annual reports covering January–June 2026 were due July 31, 2026, so some totals lag a period behind. Per the California Secretary of State's Cal-Access raw data export, retrieved 2026-09-21.

Total is itemized (Schedule A) contributions and self-funding loans dated after the June 2, 2026 primary, through June 30, 2026 — small-dollar unitemized (under $100) contributions aren't independently dated in Cal-Access's raw export, so they aren't reflected here and this may undercount true small-donor activity since the primary. This also doesn't include money reported only on 24-hour late-contribution reports (Form 497) that haven't yet appeared in a periodic Form 460 filing. Per the California Secretary of State's Cal-Access raw data export, retrieved 2026-08-30.

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