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Laura Richardson

State Senator · Senate District 35 · Party: Democratic

2997 final-passage votes on record.

Their job

A member of California's state Senate, which votes on the state's laws and budget.

Latest votes
  • Voted Yes on AB 651 (Juveniles: dependency: incarcerated parent.). It passed. Aug 18, 2025
  • Voted Yes on AB 1076 (Qualified ABLE Program: CalABLE accounts: funding.). It passed. Aug 18, 2025
  • Voted Yes on AB 1224 (Teacher credentialing: substitute teachers: days of service.). It passed. Aug 18, 2025

Votes from the official record of each vote. How Quick mode works

Record at a glance

2997
Final-passage votes
7383
All recorded votes

Counts of recorded votes only. ThePillory doesn't score or grade officials.

OfficeDemocratic
Office
State Senator
District
Senate District 35
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

Laura Richardson's website (sd35.senate.ca.gov ↗) has no page titled Issues, Priorities or Platform that ThePillory could find, as of Oct 10, 2026. It's searched again every few months.

This tab shows Laura Richardson'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

Showing every recorded vote. Procedural, amendment, committee, and nomination votes are labeled.

  • AB 651

    Juveniles: dependency: incarcerated parent.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1076

    Qualified ABLE Program: CalABLE accounts: funding.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1224

    Teacher credentialing: substitute teachers: days of service.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1319

    Protected species: California Endangered Species Act.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1504

    California Massage Therapy Council.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 727

    Pupil and student safety: identification cards.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 742

    Department of Consumer Affairs: licensing: applicants who are descendants of slaves.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 265

    Small Business Recovery Fund Act.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1280

    Energy.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 327

    Crimes: false reporting.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1418

    Department of Health Care Access and Information.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1373

    Water quality: state certification.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1340

    Transportation network company drivers: labor relations.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 797

    Community Stabilization Act: Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1108

    County officers: coroners: in-custody deaths.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1033

    Eminent domain: appraisals: compensation.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 44

    Energy: electrical demand forecasts.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1312

    Hospital pricing.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 7

    Postsecondary education: admissions preference: descendants of slavery.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1502

    Veterinary medicine: California Veterinary Medical Board.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 468

    Crimes: looting.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1515

    Professional employer organizations.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 662

    Postsecondary education: mixed-use intersegmental educational facility in the City of Chula Vista: South County Higher Education Planning Task Force.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1111

    Pupil transportation: schoolbuses: zero-emission vehicles: scrapping.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 224

    Health care coverage: essential health benefits.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 57

    California Dream for All Program: descendants of formerly enslaved people.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 507

    Adaptive reuse: streamlining: incentives.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1344

    Restrictions on firearm possession: pilot project.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1037

    Public health: substance use disorder.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1195

    Juveniles: incarcerated parent: visitation.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 678

    Interagency Council on Homelessness.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1231

    Criminal procedure: Safer Communities Through Opportunities Act.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 616

    Department of Parks and Recreation: state parks: California State Library Parks Pass Program.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1180

    Department of Financial Protection and Innovation: state payments.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 716

    Fire safety standards: hydrogen facilities.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1002

    Contractors: failure to pay wages: discipline.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 922

    University of California: employees, volunteers, and contractors: background checks.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 531

    Geothermal powerplants and projects: certification and environmental review.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1285

    State Fire Marshal: lithium-ion battery facilities: guidance.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1328

    Medi-Cal reimbursements: nonemergency ambulance and other transportation.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 322

    Precise geolocation information.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 993

    Hazardous materials management: Rural CUPA Reimbursement Account.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 824

    Protective orders: firearms and ammunition.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 669

    Substance use disorder coverage.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 782

    Unlawfully restrictive covenants: redevelopment of commercial property for residential uses.

    Do pass

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1036

    Criminal procedure: postconviction discovery.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1018

    Automated decision systems.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1068

    Emergency services available during natural disasters.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 601

    Child abuse: reporting.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 366

    Ignition interlock devices.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

Older votes

Money raised and spent by the campaign committees Laura Richardson 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

$1,121,399

Spent $706,540

Totals

  • Raised
    10 statements, Summary Page line 5
    $1,121,399
  • Spent
    Summary Page line 11
    $706,540
  • From individuals (itemized)
    24 contributions of $100 or more, net of refunds
    $67,605 6%

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
    $183,820
  • Finance, insurance and banking
    $99,655
  • Health care
    $94,344
  • Tribal governments
    $89,600
  • Issue and advocacy groups
    $58,750
  • Technology and telecommunications
    $55,967
  • Energy and utilities
    $45,110
  • Pharmaceuticals and medical products
    $44,900

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

No employer was named by 3 or more donors.

The employers individual donors named, summed; an employer is listed only when 3 or more people named it. $30,250 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

  • Pechanga Band of Indians
    4 contributions · organization · Tribal governments
    $22,800
  • Southern California Pipe Trades District Council #16 PAC
    2 contributions · small contributor committee · Issue and advocacy groups
    $22,700
  • United Domestic Workers of America Action Fund
    2 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
    $21,800
  • California Nurses Association PAC (CNA-PAC)
    4 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
    $16,900
  • International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 11
    3 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
    $15,900
  • CALPAC - California Medical Association PAC
    4 contributions · committee · Health care
    $15,500
  • California Bankers Association State PAC
    3 contributions · committee · Finance, insurance and banking
    $11,800
  • Comcast
    3 contributions · organization · Technology and telecommunications
    $11,800
  • Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association of America PAC
    5 contributions · committee · Pharmaceuticals and medical products
    $11,800
  • UA Journeyman & Apprentices Local #250
    1 contribution · small contributor committee · Not classified
    $11,800

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

Independent expenditures for and against

Spent to support: $0

None reported.

Spent to oppose: $0

None reported.

Spending on ads and outreach about Laura Richardson 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 (2)

The committees Laura Richardson 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.

RICHARDSON FOR SENATE 2024

  • Jul 1, 2026 to Sep 19, 2026
    Spent $1,000 · cash at end $9,750 Statement ↗
    $0 received
  • May 17, 2026 to Jun 30, 2026
    Spent $20 · cash at end $10,684 Statement ↗
    $-6,000 received
  • Jan 1, 2026 to May 16, 2026
    Spent $10,115 · cash at end $6,704 Statement ↗
    $-50,000 received
  • Jul 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025
    Spent $3,543 · cash at end $66,819 Statement ↗
    $55 received
Committee record ↗

RICHARDSON FOR SENATE 2028

  • Jul 1, 2026 to Sep 19, 2026
    Spent $205,651 · cash at end $417,016 Statement ↗
    $168,560 received
  • May 17, 2026 to Jun 30, 2026
    Spent $59,631 · cash at end $448,997 Statement ↗
    $127,403 received
  • Jan 1, 2026 to May 16, 2026
    Spent $87,820 · cash at end $381,225 Statement ↗
    $146,030 received
  • Jul 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025
    Spent $180,680 · cash at end $323,115 Statement ↗
    $281,541 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.

Methodology
Lobbying

California lobbying reports (Cal-Access) haven't been loaded yet. They're loaded each week from the Secretary of State's export.

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, members of the Legislature and county supervisors file theirs with, or through, the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), which publishes them.

Bought and sold (Schedule A-1)

No investments acquired or disposed of in the statements read.

From Schedule A-1 (stocks, bonds and other interests under 10%) of each annual statement, exactly as filed: the investment, the fair market value box checked and the date it was acquired or disposed of. A Form 700 gives the investment's value, not the size of a purchase or sale, and is filed once a year, so these aren't trade reports like Congress's. Where the statement doesn't say whose investment it is, ThePillory doesn't either. How these are read

Statements

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

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

Committees

No committee assignments loaded for this legislator.

Issues

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