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Caroline Menjivar

State Senator · Senate District 20 · Party: Democratic

3011 final-passage votes on record.

Record at a glance

3011
Final-passage votes
4614
All recorded votes

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OfficeDemocratic
Office
State Senator
District
Senate District 20
Party
Democratic
SourceOct 9, 2026

Last verified Oct 9, 2026.

Official source ↗

Photo: Photo via Open States

Today
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No issues page found

Caroline Menjivar's website (senate.ca.gov ↗) has no page titled Issues, Priorities or Platform that ThePillory could find, as of Oct 8, 2026. It's searched again every few months.

This tab shows Caroline Menjivar's platform in their own words (a short excerpt, word for word, from their own Issues or Priorities page, and statements their office submits) and specific commitments, checked word for word against their source, with a status that changes only with evidence. How the platform is recorded

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  • SB 743

    Education finance: Education Equalization Act: Equalization Reserve Account.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 316

    High school pupils: voter registration.

    3rd Reading SB316 Reyes By Allen

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 97

    Digital financial assets: stablecoins.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 262

    Housing element: prohousing designations: prohousing local policies.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 274

    Automated license plate recognition systems.

    3rd Reading SB274 Cervantes Motion to Reconsider

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 387

    Physicians and surgeons: special faculty permits: academic medical centers.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 642

    Employment: payment of wages.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 634

    Local government: homelessness.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 672

    The Youth Rehabilitation and Opportunity Act.

    3rd Reading SB672 Rubio et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 643

    Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchase Program.

    3rd Reading SB643 Caballero et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 238

    Workplace surveillance tools.

    3rd Reading SB238 Smallwood-Cuevas

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 582

    Health and care facilities: licensing during emergencies or disasters.

    3rd Reading SB582 Stern et al. By Cervantes

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 295

    California Preventing Algorithmic Collusion Act of 2025.

    3rd Reading SB295 Hurtado et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 825

    Consumers: financial protection.

    3rd Reading SB825 Limón et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 720

    Automated traffic enforcement system programs.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 256

    Electricity: electrical infrastructure: wildfire mitigation.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 415

    Planning and zoning: logistics use developments: truck routes.

    3rd Reading SB415 Reyes et al. By Durazo

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

    Not voting Source ↗
  • SB 707

    Open meetings: meeting and teleconference requirements.

    3rd Reading SB707 Durazo et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

    Not voting Source ↗
  • SB 641

    Department of Consumer Affairs and Department of Real Estate: states of emergency: waivers and exemptions.

    3rd Reading SB641 Ashby et al. Urgency Clause

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 788

    Tax preparers: exemptions.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 384

    Preventing Algorithmic Price Fixing Act: prohibition on certain price-setting algorithm uses.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 72

    The California Water Plan: long-term supply targets.

    3rd Reading SB72 Caballero et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 690

    Crimes: invasion of privacy.

    3rd Reading SB690 Caballero et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 567

    Gravity-Based Energy Storage Well Pilot Program.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 36

    Price gouging: state of emergency.

    3rd Reading SB36 Umberg et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 10

    Climate change: plans: gender impacts.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 516

    Enhanced infrastructure financing districts: California Capital City Downtown Revitalization Act.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 629

    Wildfires: fire hazard severity zones: post-wildfire safety areas.

    3rd Reading SB629 Durazo et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 547

    Commercial property insurance cancellation and nonrenewal.

    3rd Reading SB547 Pérez et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 682

    Environmental health: product safety: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 625

    Housing developments: disasters: reconstruction of destroyed or damaged structures.

    3rd Reading SB625 Wahab et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 610

    Disaster assistance: tenants, mobilehome parks, and mortgages.

    3rd Reading SB610 Pérez et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 292

    Electricity: wildfire mitigation: deenergization events and reliability.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 542

    Tribal gaming: compact ratification.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 379

    Sexually violent predators.

    3rd Reading (Urgency Clause)

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 6

    Controlled substances: xylazine.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 378

    Online marketplaces: illicit cannabis: reporting and liability.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 473

    Water corporations: demand elasticity: rates and surcharges.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 709

    Self-service storage facilities: rental agreement disclosures.

    3rd Reading SB709 Menjivar et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 783

    Outdoor advertising displays: redevelopment agency project areas.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 330

    Budgets: multiyear financial commitments.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 692

    Vehicles: homelessness.

    3rd Reading SB692 Arreguín et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 630

    State parks: real property: acquisitions and leases.

    3rd Reading SB630 Allen et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 522

    Housing: tenant protections.

    3rd Reading SB522 Wahab et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 616

    Community Hardening Commission: wildfire mitigation program.

    3rd Reading SB616 Rubio et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 791

    Vehicle dealers: document processing charge.

    3rd Reading SB791 Cortese et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

    Not voting Source ↗
  • SB 16

    Mental health: involuntary commitment.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 71

    California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transit projects.

    3rd Reading SB71 Wiener et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 402

    Health care coverage: autism.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 833

    Critical infrastructure: artificial intelligence systems: human oversight.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

Older votes

Money raised and spent by the campaign committees Caroline Menjivar controls in 2025–2026, as reported to the California Secretary of State. These are facts about money; they don't explain any vote or action in office.

Raised · 2025–2026

$1,001,667

Spent $1,140,555

Totals

  • Raised
    6 statements, Summary Page line 5
    $1,001,667
  • Spent
    Summary Page line 11
    $1,140,555
  • From individuals (itemized)
    243 contributions of $100 or more, net of refunds
    $141,460 14%

Sums of each statement's own figures for its period. Contributions under $100 aren't itemized, so they're in "Raised" but not in the lists below.

Top contributing industries (approximate)

  • Labor unions
    $163,350
  • Health care
    $137,110
  • Issue and advocacy groups
    $55,650
  • Pharmaceuticals and medical products
    $52,400
  • Education
    $51,600
  • Finance, insurance and banking
    $43,250
  • Energy and utilities
    $32,800
  • Agriculture and food
    $27,800

Approximate. Industries are assigned by keywords in organizations' names and in the employers individual donors named; 70% of these itemized dollars matched an industry, and the rest are left unclassified rather than guessed.

How industries are assigned

Top employers of individual donors

  • NETFLIX
    3 donors · Media and entertainment
    $4,500
  • NATIONAL CAREER COLLEGE
    4 donors · Education
    $4,000
  • CSUN MANATT
    3 donors · Not classified
    $3,000
  • CLINICA ROMERO
    4 donors · Health care
    $1,500
  • J&J EXECUTIVE SERVICES
    3 donors · Not classified
    $850
  • TONI SHERMAN INTERIORS LLC
    3 donors · Not classified
    $800
  • J&J SNACK FOODS/BEAUTISOLES
    3 donors · Agriculture and food
    $500

The employers individual donors named, summed; an employer is listed only when 3 or more people named it. $30,100 came from people who listed no employer (retired, not employed or self-employed). Individual donors are never named on ThePillory, at any amount.

Committees, parties and organizations

  • Building a Stronger Future for California PAC, sponsored by Western States Regional Council of Carpenters
    3 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
    $22,100
  • California Nurses Association Political Action Committee (CNA-PAC)
    6 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
    $12,500
  • Association of California School Administrators Political Action Committee
    1 contribution · small contributor committee · Education
    $11,800
  • California State Council of Laborers PAC Small Contributor Committee
    3 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
    $11,800
  • California Teachers Association/Association for Better Citizenship
    1 contribution · small contributor committee · Education
    $11,800
  • United Domestic Workers of America Action Fund Small Contributor Committee
    2 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
    $11,800
  • United Nurses Association of California / Union of Health Care Professionals PAC (UNAC PAC)
    2 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
    $11,800
  • Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians
    2 contributions · organization · Tribal governments
    $11,800
  • Western Dental Services, Inc.
    2 contributions · organization · Health care
    $11,800
  • Women's Political Committee (State Account)
    2 contributions · committee · Issue and advocacy groups
    $10,900

Contributions itemized on Schedule A from political committees, parties, businesses and other organizations, by the name reported. Transfers between Caroline Menjivar's own committees aren't counted.

Independent expenditures for and against

Spent to support: $353,341

  • Advance California, Sponsored by California Apartment Association
    race: State Senate · 2 reports · May 15, 2026 to May 27, 2026
    $174,802
  • Friends of Caroline Menjivar for Senate 2026 sponsored by LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender) Caucus Leadership Fund
    race: State Senate · 1 report · May 20, 2026
    $173,574
  • Los Angeles County Democratic Party ? Issues and Advocacy Committee
    race: State Senate · 1 report · May 21, 2026
    $3,791
  • Los Angeles County Democratic Party ? State Candidate Committee
    race: State Senate · 1 report · May 19, 2026
    $1,175

Spent to oppose: $0

None reported.

Spending on ads and outreach about Caroline Menjivar by committees that don't coordinate with the campaign; this money isn't given to the campaign. From Form 496 reports, which are filed for independent expenditures of $1,000 or more made in the 90 days before an election; spending outside that window isn't included. Each spender links to its committee record, where its own donors are listed.

Campaign committees and statements (1)

The committees Caroline Menjivar controls, and each campaign statement (Form 460) with its own totals for its period. A committee can be for another office or a future race, or an officeholder account; each is listed under its own name.

Menjivar for Senate 2026

  • Jul 1, 2026 to Sep 19, 2026
    Spent $137,258 · cash at end $383,976 Statement ↗
    $136,305 received
  • May 17, 2026 to Jun 30, 2026
    Spent $135,569 · cash at end $389,873 Statement ↗
    $128,661 received
  • Apr 19, 2026 to May 16, 2026
    Spent $272,244 · cash at end $462,518 Statement ↗
    $64,635 received
  • Jan 1, 2026 to Apr 18, 2026
    Spent $210,952 · cash at end $542,686 Statement ↗
    $229,164 received
Committee record ↗

From the Cal-Access export of Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:54:52 GMT. California replaces Cal-Access with a new disclosure system after the November 2026 election.

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Disclosures

Statements of economic interests (Form 700)

California officials file a Statement of Economic Interests (Form 700) each year: their investments, real property, income and gifts. Statewide officers and members of the Legislature file theirs with the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), which publishes them.

  • Form 700, Annual Senator · State Senate Filed Mar 2, 2026 · covers 2025 Statement (PDF) ↗
  • Form 700, Annual Senator · State Senate Filed Feb 28, 2025 · covers 2024 Statement (PDF) ↗
  • Form 700, Annual Senator · State Senate Filed Mar 1, 2024 · covers 2023 Statement (PDF) ↗
  • Form 700, Annual Senator · State Senate Filed Mar 1, 2023 · covers 2022 Statement (PDF) ↗
  • Form 700, Candidate Senator · State Senate Filed Nov 16, 2022 · covers 2022 · amendment Statement (PDF) ↗
  • Form 700, Candidate Senator · State Senate Filed Mar 3, 2022 · covers 2022 Statement (PDF) ↗

Source: FPPC Form 700 search ↗, searched Oct 6, 2026. How

Committees

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Issues

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