# Member of the State Assembly, District 7 Compare records and positions simply between Josh Hoover or Amy L. Slavensky for Member of the State Assembly, District 7 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat in the California State Assembly (2-year term). - Jurisdiction: California Legislature - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/assembly-7 - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: September 24, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 88 out of 100 (Strong), across 9 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Josh Hoover** — Member of the State Assembly, 7th District · Republican · Incumbent - **Amy L. Slavensky** — Public School Educator · Democratic Assemblymember Josh Hoover took 50.9% of the June 2 vote and Democrat Amy L. Slavensky took 47.2% — a 3.7-point gap that makes this one of the closest legislative contests on the November ballot, and a bare majority for a sitting member. 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, of Folsom, is the Republican Assemblymember for this Sacramento-area district. He is seeking a third term. Before the Assembly he served as chief of staff to then-Assemblymember Kevin Kiley. He also served as a Folsom Cordova Unified School District board member. His campaign credits him there with helping make the district "the first in Sacramento County to bring students back to the classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic" (Sacramento Bee). He first won this seat in 2022, narrowly defeating incumbent Democrat Ken Cooley by one percentage point. He won a second term in 2024 (Yahoo News). He sits on the Appropriations, Communications and Conveyance, and Education committees as vice chair, and is a member of Natural Resources, Privacy and Consumer Protection, and Transportation (assembly.ca.gov). He belongs to the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus. He authored Ryla's Law, which closes loopholes for child abusers (campaign site). He also hosts a podcast called Point of Order (Sacramento Bee). His 2022 win, by one point over an incumbent, remains one of the closest Assembly races in recent cycles (Yahoo News). His campaign describes his focus as opposing "soft-on-crime" policies. It also says he wants to reduce what it calls unreasonable mandates on families and businesses (campaign site). He promises continued work on public safety, school choice and parental empowerment, and increasing housing supply. He also promises to reduce regulation on small businesses. And he wants to add accountability and outcome-tracking to state homelessness programs (campaign site). **Strengths:** A multi-term record that includes bills signed into law from the minority caucus, committee vice-chair roles, and a bipartisan caucus seat. **Trade-offs:** Won his first term by a single point, in a district that leans only mildly toward either party. **Keep in mind:** His committee leadership and legislative record are real, but so is how close his first election was. His "soft-on-crime" framing of opponents is his own language, not this profile's. ## Amy L. Slavensky Amy Slavensky is a Democrat challenging Assemblyman Josh Hoover. She grew up in Fair Oaks and Carmichael. Her site says her family relied on food stamps and Medi-Cal and lived in subsidized housing, and that she put herself through college (campaign site). She spent 40 years in California public education, working as a teacher, a middle and elementary school principal, and a superintendent. She retired from the Amador County Unified School District in 2021. She then became interim deputy superintendent of the San Juan Unified School District in 2023 (Yahoo News). She has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress. "Our current representatives are failing on what matters most: affordability, healthcare, and education," she says. "In our public schools, I've seen our community's challenges firsthand" (campaign site). Local reporting traces part of her motivation to her brother's homelessness and death (Sacramento Bee). Yahoo News reports that her campaign says she led the Amador district through "political pressure, personal threats, and difficult budget decisions" during the pandemic. She promises accountability for taxpayer dollars and protection against price gouging, and she wants universal affordable childcare. On housing, she promises to cut red tape that blocks production and add rental subsidies to prevent homelessness. On health care, she promises to prioritize preventive care and expand mental health services. On education, she promises better pay for teachers and staff and more investment in early childhood and career technical education (campaign site). **Strengths:** A 40-year career across teaching, school leadership, and a superintendency, plus a personal account of hardship that grounds her affordability platform. **Trade-offs:** No record in elected office to judge; her platform and her account of her time as superintendent both come mainly from her own campaign. **Keep in mind:** What's documented about her is a long education career and her own account of it, not a legislative record to compare against the incumbent's tenure. ## 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. ## Record details Hoover — AB 2071 (2026): Pupil instruction: digital wellness. Hoover — AB 1308 (2025): Residential building permits: inspections: Housing Accountability Act. Hoover — AB 1142 (2025): Horses: horse shows, competitions, and sales. Committee assignments and the most recently signed-into-law bills each record-holder lead-authored, from the official legislative record. ## Financial info - **Josh Hoover** - Primary: $1,067,347 raised (Small donors: $746; Individuals: $73,575; PACs & committees: $447,948; Party: $143,000; Businesses & other orgs: $389,650) - November: $51,500 raised (Individuals: $700; PACs & committees: $32,900; Businesses & other orgs: $17,900) - **Amy L. Slavensky** - Primary: $380,259 raised (Small donors: $7,346; Individuals: $47,192; PACs & committees: $190,074; Businesses & other orgs: $1,750; Self-funding: $16,943) - November: $59,047 raised (Individuals: $6,899; PACs & committees: $52,049; Self-funding: $99) 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. ## Review notes - Josh Hoover for Assembly (campaign site) and Amy Slavensky for Assembly (campaign site) may have more bias because they are advocacy voter guides compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources. ## Sources 1. [CA Secretary of State — Statement of Vote, June 2, 2026 primary (certified 2026-07-10)](https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/prior-elections/statewide-election-results/primary-election-june-2-2026/statement-vote) 2. [Ballotpedia — June 2026 California primary](https://ballotpedia.org) 3. [Sacramento Bee — Your guide to California's 7th Assembly District race (via Yahoo News)](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/guide-california-7th-assembly-district-120000259.html) 4. [Hoover to face Slavensky in Assembly District 7 general election (via Yahoo News)](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/hoover-face-slavensky-assembly-district-034034627.html) 5. [Josh Hoover for Assembly (campaign site) — priorities and record](https://www.hooverforassembly.com/) 6. [Amy Slavensky for Assembly (campaign site) — biography and priorities](https://www.amyslavensky.com/) 7. [California State Assembly — Member page for Josh Hoover (District 7): committee assignments](https://www.assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers/07) 8. [California Legislative Information — public bill data (bulk download)](https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/) 9. [Cal-Access raw data export — California Secretary of State](https://www.sos.ca.gov/campaign-lobbying/helpful-resources/raw-data-campaign-finance-and-lobbying-activity) ## The rest of the ballot Member of the State Assembly, District 7 is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. Vote or Else builds the full list for any California address and breaks down each contest the way this page does, with no account and without storing the address: https://voteorelse.com/ ## How to cite this page Vote or Else, "Member of the State Assembly, District 7 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/assembly-7 (sources last retrieved September 24, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. Coverage is updated as the race develops, so quote it with its retrieval date.