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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 291 (Teachers: credentialed educator apprenticeship programs.). It passed. Aug 18, 2025
  • Voted Yes on AB 82 (Health care: legally protected health care activity.). It passed. Aug 18, 2025
  • Voted Yes on AB 961 (Hazardous materials: California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act of 2004.). 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
1993Today

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 291

    Teachers: credentialed educator apprenticeship programs.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 82

    Health care: legally protected health care activity.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 961

    Hazardous materials: California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act of 2004.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 288

    Employment: labor organization and unfair practices.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 645

    Emergency medical services: dispatcher training.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 704

    Criminal records: destruction.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 245

    Property taxation: application of base year value: disaster relief.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1210

    Postrelease community supervision.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 264

    Veterans: benefits.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 411

    Livestock carcasses: disposal: composting.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 481

    Healing arts: clinical laboratories: personnel.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 254

    California-Ireland Trade Commission.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1508

    Governor's Military Council.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 969

    CalWORKs: family violence option and gender-based violence information.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1370

    State Legislature: nondisclosure agreements.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 766

    State agencies and departments: strategic plans: diversity, equity, and inclusion.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1105

    Conservatorships.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 902

    Transportation projects: barriers to wildlife movement.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1140

    Single-Occupancy Cell Pilot Program.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1332

    Medicinal cannabis: shipments.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 668

    Alcoholic beverage control: large outdoor events: drink spiking.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 888

    California Safe Homes grant program.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1078

    Firearms.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1064

    Leading Ethical AI Development (LEAD) for Kids Act.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1314

    Transitional housing placement providers.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 598

    School safety: School Mapping Data Grant Program.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 560

    Special education: resource specialists: special classes.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 261

    Fire safety: fire hazard severity zones: State Fire Marshal.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 631

    Animals: animal shelters: transparency.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 81

    Veterans: mental health.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 15

    Open unsolved homicide: review and reinvestigation.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 90

    Public postsecondary education: overnight student parking.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 654

    Homelessness resource telephone system.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1164

    Elections: Voter Bill of Rights.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1050

    Unlawfully restrictive covenants: housing developments.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 563

    Childcare: Early Childhood Policy Council.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 476

    Metal theft.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 470

    Telephone corporations: carriers of last resort.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 75

    Residential property insurance images.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 339

    Local public employee organizations: notice requirements.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 340

    Employer-employee relations: confidential communications.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 300

    Fire hazard severity zones: State Fire Marshal.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1503

    Pharmacy.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1166

    Fair Debt Settlement Practices Act.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 986

    State of emergency and local emergency: landslides and climate change.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 49

    Schoolsites: immigration enforcement.

    Do pass

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 226

    California FAIR Plan Association.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1042

    The Cannella Environmental Farming Act of 1995: Managed Honeybee Health Program.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 546

    Health care coverage: portable HEPA purifiers.

    Placed on suspense file

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 474

    Housing discrimination: nonprofit home-sharing program: eligibility for public social services.

    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

No reports yet. Reporting opens when accounts launch.

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