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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 SB 614 (Public resources: transportation of carbon dioxide.). It passed. Jun 4, 2025
  • Did not vote on SB 356 (Elderly Parole Program.). It passed. Jun 4, 2025
  • Voted Yes on SB 228 (Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program.). It passed. Jun 4, 2025

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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.

  • SB 614

    Public resources: transportation of carbon dioxide.

    3rd Reading SB614 Stern et al.

    Jun 4, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 356

    Elderly Parole Program.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 4, 2025 · Result: Passed

    Not voting Source ↗
  • SB 228

    Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program.

    Special Consent

    Jun 4, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 433

    Residential care facilities for the elderly: assisted living waiver rental rate protection.

    3rd Reading SB433 Wahab et al.

    Jun 4, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 562

    Bail.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 4, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 224

    Department of Water Resources: water supply forecasting.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 4, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 778

    Migrant childcare and development programs.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 663

    Winter Fires of 2025: real property tax: exemptions and reassessment.

    3rd Reading SB663 Allen et al. Urgency Clause

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 524

    Law enforcement agencies: artificial intelligence.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 779

    Contractors: civil penalties.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 676

    California Environmental Quality Act: judicial streamlining: state of emergency: wildfire.

    3rd Reading SB676 Limón et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 243

    Companion chatbots.

    3rd Reading SB243 Padilla et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 443

    Retirement: joint powers authorities.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 509

    Office of Emergency Services: training: transnational repression.

    3rd Reading SB509 Caballero et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 581

    Department of Forestry and Fire Protection: employment: firefighters.

    3rd Reading SB581 McGuire et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 541

    Electricity: load shifting.

    3rd Reading SB541 Becker et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

    Not voting Source ↗
  • SB 429

    Wildfire Safety and Risk Mitigation Program.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 79

    Housing development: transit-oriented development.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 841

    Immigration enforcement.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 326

    Wildfire safety: fire protection building standards: defensible space requirements: The California Wildfire Mitigation Strategic Planning Act.

    3rd Reading SB326 Becker et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 495

    Insurance.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • 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

  • SB 707

    Open meetings: meeting and teleconference requirements.

    3rd Reading SB707 Durazo et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • 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

    Not voting Source ↗
  • 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

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, 12 Oct 2026 08:52:56 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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