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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 343 (California Public Records Act: elected or appointed officials.). It passed. Jul 7, 2025
  • Voted Yes on AB 833 (Teachers: exchange programs: local educational agencies: sponsors.). It passed. Jul 7, 2025
  • Voted Yes on AB 996 (Public Resources: sea level rise plans.). It passed. Jul 7, 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 343

    California Public Records Act: elected or appointed officials.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 833

    Teachers: exchange programs: local educational agencies: sponsors.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 996

    Public Resources: sea level rise plans.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 86

    Instructional materials: health education.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 538

    Public works: payroll records.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 787

    Provider directory disclosures.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 260

    Sexual and reproductive health care.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 913

    Housing programs: financing.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1376

    Wards: probation.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 323

    Strong Workforce Program: work-based learning opportunities.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 352

    Crimes: criminal threats.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 338

    Workforce development: the Counties of Los Angeles and Ventura: 2025 wildfires.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1162

    Challenges to housing and community-serving projects.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1336

    Farmworkers: benefits.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1225

    State parks: Accessibility Advisory Committee.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 845

    Employment: complaints: agricultural employees.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 731

    Pupil instruction: dual enrollment: College and Career Access Pathways partnerships.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 358

    Criminal procedure: privacy.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1045

    California State University and University of California: financial incentives: nonprofit organizations: service learning.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 535

    Threatening a witness: assisting a prosecution.

    Placed on suspense file

    Jul 7, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 784

    Special education: specialized deaf and hard-of-hearing services.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 377

    High-Speed Rail Authority: business plan: Merced to Bakersfield segment.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 711

    Civil Actions: shorthand reporters.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 553

    CalFresh: food access.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB553 Caloza et al.

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 545

    Vehicles: electric bicycles.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1114

    Emergency vehicles: fee and toll exemptions.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB1114 Ávila Farías

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1138

    Income and corporate taxes: tax credits: motion pictures.

    3rd Reading AB1138 Zbur et al. By Allen Urgency Clause

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • ACR 92

    Relative to Electronic Dance Music Month.

    Special Consent ACR92 Mark González et al.

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 529

    Pharmacy: declared state of emergency.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 370

    California Public Records Act: cyberattacks.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1478

    Used Mattress Recovery and Recycling Act: mattress recycling charge: consumer education.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 544

    Electric bicycles: required equipment.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 533

    Health care districts: design-build process.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 78

    Attorney's fees: book accounts.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SJR 9

    Immigrants in California: mass immigration raids.

    3rd Reading SJR9 Durazo et al.

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 390

    Vehicles: highway safety.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB390 Wilson et al.

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1416

    Property taxation: redemption: permanent installment plan.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • ACR 90

    Relative to Juneteenth.

    Special Consent ACR90 Gipson et al.

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • ACR 77

    Relative to Drowning Awareness and Prevention Month.

    Special Consent ACR77 Davies et al. By Niello

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AB 1034

    Teacher credentialing: programs of professional preparation: youth mental health.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB1034 Ávila Farías

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 898

    The Family Urgent Response System.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1459

    Hazardous waste: underground storage tanks.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB1459 E.S. & T.M.

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1037

    Public health: substance use disorder.

    Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary]

    Jul 2, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1507

    Financial institutions.

    Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar

    Jul 2, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1166

    Fair Debt Settlement Practices Act.

    Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary]

    Jul 2, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 573

    Cigarette and tobacco products: licensing and enforcement.

    Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Revenue and Taxation]

    Jul 2, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 866

    Student loan servicing.

    Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    Jul 2, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1041

    Health care coverage: health care provider credentials.

    Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    Jul 2, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1242

    Language access.

    Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governmental Organization]

    Jul 2, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 416

    Involuntary commitment.

    Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]

    Jul 2, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

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.

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Lobbying

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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, 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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