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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 21 (Single-room occupancy units: demolition and replacement: housing assistance programs: eligibility for homeless individuals and families.). It passed. May 27, 2025
  • Voted Yes on SB 765 (State snake.). It passed. May 27, 2025
  • Voted Yes on SB 340 (General plans: housing element: emergency shelter.). It passed. May 27, 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.

  • SB 21

    Single-room occupancy units: demolition and replacement: housing assistance programs: eligibility for homeless individuals and families.

    3rd Reading

    May 27, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 765

    State snake.

    3rd Reading

    May 27, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 340

    General plans: housing element: emergency shelter.

    3rd Reading

    May 27, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 62

    Health care coverage: essential health benefits.

    3rd Reading

    May 27, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 227

    Green Empowerment Zone for the Northern Waterfront area of the County of Contra Costa.

    3rd Reading SB227 Grayson et al. Urgency Clause

    May 27, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 845

    Pupil instruction: career technical education, career education, work-based learning, work experience education, and apprenticeships.

    3rd Reading SB845 Pérez et al.

    May 27, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 611

    Planning and zoning: community plans: review under the California Environmental Quality Act.

    3rd Reading (Urgency Clause)

    May 27, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 403

    End of Life Option Act: sunset.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 701

    Signal jammers.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SCR 56

    Relative to National Military Appreciation Month.

    3rd Reading SCR56 Archuleta et al.

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 630

    State parks: real property: acquisitions and leases.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 378

    Online marketplaces: illicit cannabis: reporting and liability.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 646

    Prenatal multivitamins.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 298

    State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: seaports: plan: alternative fuels.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 744

    Accrediting agencies.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 439

    California Health Benefit Review Program: extension.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • ACR 60

    Peace officers: disability-informed response programs.

    Special Consent ACR60 Pacheco et al.

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 609

    Fish: commercial fishing.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 717

    Ken Maddy California Cancer Registry.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 633

    Plastic beverage containers: recycling.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 809

    Employees and independent contractors: construction trucking.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 562

    Bail.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 641

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

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 632

    Community colleges: California College Promise.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 98

    Elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education: immigration enforcement: notification.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 774

    Department of Real Estate and the Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers: Bureau of Automotive Repair.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 764

    Chain restaurants: children's meals.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 702

    Legislative and gubernatorial appointments: report.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 87

    Sales and Use Tax Law: consumer designation: all-volunteer fire departments.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 607

    Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District: contributions and loans.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 629

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

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 563

    State parks: Off-highway Motor Vehicle Recreation: grants: eligible applicants.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 70

    Public contracts: Small Business Procurement and Contract Act.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 437

    California State University: claim eligibility: genealogy and descendancy.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 454

    State Water Resources Control Board: PFAS Mitigation Program.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 518

    Descendants of enslaved persons: reparations.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 48

    Educational equity: discrimination prevention coordinators.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 302

    Personal Income Tax Law and Corporation Tax Law: exclusions: environmental credits.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 326

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

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 862

    Health.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 316

    High school pupils: voter registration.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 676

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

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 787

    Energy: equitable clean energy supply chains and industrial policy in California.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 14

    State agencies: solid waste diversion: single-use plastic bottles.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 711

    Taxation: federal conformity.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 274

    Automated license plate recognition systems.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 337

    Prisons.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 40

    Health care coverage: insulin.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 297

    Valley Fever Screening and Prevention Act of 2025.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 695

    Transportation: climate resiliency: projects of statewide and regional significance.

    Do pass

    May 23, 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, 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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