Lana Theis
2019 - Present
2027
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Lana Theis (Republican Party) is a member of the Michigan State Senate, representing District 22. She assumed office on January 1, 2019. Her current term ends on January 1, 2027.
Theis (Republican Party) ran for re-election to the Michigan State Senate to represent District 22. She won in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Theis completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Theis is a former Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives, representing District 42 from 2015 to 2019.
Committee assignments
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2023-2024
Theis was assigned to the following committees:
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2021-2022
Theis was assigned to the following committees:
- Education and Career Readiness Committee, Chair
- Health Policy and Human Services
- Insurance and Banking Committee, Chair
- Senate Oversight Committee, Majority vice-chair
- Senate Regulatory Reform Committee, Majority vice-chair
- Joint Committee on Administrative Rules
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2019-2020
Theis was assigned to the following committees:
- Economic and Small Business Development Committee
- Education and Career Readiness Committee, Chair
- Insurance and Banking Committee, Chair
- Senate Oversight Committee
- Health Policy and Human Services
- Senate Regulatory Reform Committee, Vice Chair
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2017 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:
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• Insurance, Chair |
• Judiciary, Vice chair |
• Law and Justice |
• Regulatory Reform |
2015 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Theis served on the following committees:
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• Financial Services |
• Insurance, Majority Vice Chair |
• Local Government |
• Oversight and Ethics |
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Elections
2022
See also: Michigan State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Michigan State Senate District 22
Incumbent Lana Theis defeated Jordan Genso, Jon Elgas, and Victoria McCasey in the general election for Michigan State Senate District 22 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Lana Theis (R) ![]() | 60.7 | 83,957 |
![]() | Jordan Genso (D) | 36.7 | 50,738 | |
![]() | Jon Elgas (L) ![]() | 1.8 | 2,478 | |
Victoria McCasey (U.S. Taxpayers Party) | 0.9 | 1,198 |
Total votes: 138,371 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Michigan State Senate District 22
Jordan Genso advanced from the Democratic primary for Michigan State Senate District 22 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Jordan Genso | 100.0 | 19,299 |
Total votes: 19,299 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Michigan State Senate District 22
Incumbent Lana Theis defeated Mike Detmer in the Republican primary for Michigan State Senate District 22 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Lana Theis ![]() | 57.6 | 24,384 |
![]() | Mike Detmer | 42.4 | 17,939 |
Total votes: 42,323 | ||||
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Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for Michigan State Senate District 22
Jon Elgas advanced from the Libertarian convention for Michigan State Senate District 22 on July 10, 2022.
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✔ | ![]() | Jon Elgas (L) ![]() |
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U.S. Taxpayers Party convention
U.S. Taxpayers Party convention for Michigan State Senate District 22
Victoria McCasey advanced from the U.S. Taxpayers Party convention for Michigan State Senate District 22 on July 23, 2022.
Candidate | ||
✔ | Victoria McCasey (U.S. Taxpayers Party) |
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Campaign finance
2018
See also: Michigan State Senate elections, 2018
General election
General election for Michigan State Senate District 22
Lana Theis defeated Adam Dreher and Eric Borregard in the general election for Michigan State Senate District 22 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Lana Theis (R) | 56.0 | 76,043 |
Adam Dreher (D) ![]() | 42.1 | 57,167 | ||
![]() | Eric Borregard (G) ![]() | 2.0 | 2,659 |
Total votes: 135,869 (100.00% precincts reporting) | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Michigan State Senate District 22
Adam Dreher advanced from the Democratic primary for Michigan State Senate District 22 on August 7, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Adam Dreher ![]() | 100.0 | 27,267 |
Total votes: 27,267 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Michigan State Senate District 22
Lana Theis defeated Joseph Converse Marinaro in the Republican primary for Michigan State Senate District 22 on August 7, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Lana Theis | 74.8 | 25,957 |
![]() | Joseph Converse Marinaro | 25.2 | 8,732 |
Total votes: 34,689 | ||||
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2016
Elections for the Michigan House of Representatives took place in 2016. The primary election was held on August 2, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was April 19, 2016.
Incumbent Lana Theis defeated Timothy Johnson and Jon Elgas in the Michigan House of Representatives District 42 general election.[1]
Michigan House of Representatives, District 42 General Election, 2016 | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
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63.59% | 34,015 | |
Democratic | Timothy Johnson | 32.36% | 17,309 | |
Libertarian | Jon Elgas | 4.05% | 2,167 | |
Total Votes | 53,491 | |||
Source: Michigan Secretary of State |
Timothy Johnson ran unopposed in the Michigan House of Representatives District 42 Democratic primary.[2][3]
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Incumbent Lana Theis ran unopposed in the Michigan House of Representatives District 42 Republican primary.[2][3]
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2014
Elections for the Michigan House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election was held on August 5, 2014, and a general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was April 22, 2014. Timothy Johnson was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Lana Theis defeated Nick Fiani, Rich Perlberg and Dale Rogers in the Republican primary. Theis defeated Johnson in the general election.[4][5][6][7]
Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
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Republican | ![]() |
65.2% | 23,477 | |
Democratic | Timothy Johnson | 34.8% | 12,547 | |
Total Votes | 36,024 |
Endorsements
In 2014, Theis' endorsements included the following:[8]
- Right to Life of Michigan - 42nd District Exclusive
- Michigan Chamber of Commerce - 42nd District Exclusive
- Michigan Realtor's Association - 42nd District Exclusive
- Farm Bureau (AgriPAC) - 42nd District Exclusive
- Michigan Township's Association - 42nd District Exclusive
- Small Business Association of Michigan (SBAM) - 42nd District Exclusive
- Michigan Homebuilders Association PAC - 42nd District Exclusive
- Great Lakes Education Project - 42nd District Exclusive
- Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners (A rating)
- NRA rated AQ (highest rating offered for non-incumbents A, but qualified)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Lana Theis completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Theis' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|I live in Brighton Michigan. Sam and I have two children and one grandchild. I have been invested in my community in different capacities since we moved to Brighton in 2000, whether it was helping out at church, working with the chambers, or volunteering for fundraisers. I've also served by chairing the Brighton Area Fire Authority board, the Livingston County Treasurer's association, and the Livingston County Republican party.
My focus has been to see myself as a public servant, rather than insisting people use my title. I tell people this title means I have 260K bosses. It keeps me grounded. This job is both extraordinarily difficult and an amazing honor. I look forward to serving the citizens of Michigan again.
As of January 2023, the new 22nd district will include all of Livingston County, as well as the townships of Stockbridge, White Oak and Leroy in Ingham County, Antrim and Burns townships in Shiawassee County, Argentine and Fenton townships in Genesee County, and Holly Township in Oakland County.
- I will continue to work with parents who are asserting their rights for their children's education. No one knows the child better than their parents. Prioritizing parents as well as children ensures our students have the best education possible, focusing on the fundamentals while also protecting them from unnecessary "agenda-driven" curriculum or policies.
- I will work to restore our citizen's confidence in our election process and ensure our elections are free from fraud. Jocelyn Benson’s mass-mailing of absentee ballot applications and her direction to local clerks to ignore the standard for signatures highlighted the need for change to ensure our elections are fair, safe, and accurately counted. My legislation would require ID information be included with absentee ballot submissions, and would remove deceased voters from the voting rolls in a timely manner. Our legislature has introduced over 100 election-related bills to address concerns, weaknesses and failures in our election system.
- Inflation and high gas prices are affecting our most vulnerable citizens the hardest. Governor Whitmer’s COVID policies and continued overzealous imposition of bureaucratic regulation are keeping the backbone of our economy, our small businesses, from thriving. I will continue to work to provide tax relief to our citizens and to reduce the burden of unnecessary regulation.
While Governor Whitmer was focused on shutting down the state, I worked to open it back up safely. Our kids needed to be in school and our small businesses needed to be able to function. The state is now open, but we can never go back, and we've got a long way to go to fully recover.
Children need to be able to focus on their education without agenda-driven activists blocking parents from having a say. Across the country and here in Michigan, parents and teachers alike were prohibited from voicing their concerns over children's education. We need to ensure teachers have the tools, and parents know their rights, to provide the best possible education to Michigan's kids.
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2014
Theis' website highlighted the following campaign themes:[9]
Regulation
- Excerpt: "Regulations should be few, simple, predictable and fairly applied."
Taxes
- Excerpt: "State taxes are high enough already. The government receives more than enough money to do the job it was tasked with under the Michigan Constitution. We don’t need higher taxes, we need smarter spending."
Roads
- Excerpt: "Our road infrastructure desperately needs to be a priority."
Education
- Excerpt: "A good, strong education best prepares our children for success as adults."
Life
- Excerpt: "Life begins at conception."
Campaign finance summary
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Scorecards
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2024
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In 2024, the Michigan State Legislature was in session from January 10 to December 23.
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2023
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In 2023, the Michigan State Legislature was in session from January 11 to November 14.
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2022
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In 2022, the Michigan State Legislature was in session from January 12 to December 28.
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2021
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In 2021, the Michigan State Legislature was in session from January 13 to December 31.
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2020
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In 2020, the Michigan State Legislature was in session from January 8 to December 31.
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2019
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In 2019, the Michigan State Legislature was in session from January 9 through December 31.
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2018
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In 2018, the Michigan State Legislature was in session from January 10 through December 31.
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2017
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In 2017, the Michigan State Legislature was in session from January 11 through December 31.
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2016
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In 2016, the Michigan State Legislature was in session from January 13 through December 31.
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2015
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In 2015, the Michigan State Legislature was in session from January 14 through December 17.
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Noteworthy events
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On April 13, 2021, Theis announced that she would self-quarantine after she was exposed to COVID-19.[10]
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Michigan Secretary of State, "2016 official general election results," accessed May 2, 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Michigan Secretary of State, "2016 Michigan Candidate Listing," accessed April 22, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Michigan Secretary of State, "2016 Michigan Election Results," accessed August 2, 2016
- ↑ Michigan Secretary of State, "Representative in State Legislature," accessed August 6, 2014
- ↑ Michigan Secretary of State, "Representative in State Legislature," accessed December 5, 2014
- ↑ Michigan Secretary of State, "2014 Official Michigan Primary Candidate Listing," accessed May 27, 2014
- ↑ Michigan Secretary of State, "2014 Official Michigan General Candidate Listing," accessed September 8, 2014
- ↑ lanatheis.com, "Official campaign website," accessed July 29, 2014
- ↑ lanatheis.com, "Issues," accessed July 29, 2014
- ↑ The Detroit News, "Michigan senator is quarantining after COVID-19 exposure," April 13, 2021
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Preceded by Joe Hune (R) |
Michigan State Senate District 22 2019-Present |
Succeeded by - |
Preceded by - |
Michigan House of Representatives District 42 2015-2019 |
Succeeded by Ann Bollin (R) |