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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 520 (Nurse-midwifery education program.). It passed. May 23, 2025
  • Voted Yes on SB 32 (Health care coverage: timely access to care.). It passed. May 23, 2025
  • Voted Yes on SB 238 (Workplace surveillance tools.). It passed. May 23, 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 520

    Nurse-midwifery education program.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 32

    Health care coverage: timely access to care.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 238

    Workplace surveillance tools.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 414

    School accountability: Office of the Education Inspector General: school financial and performance audits: charter school authorization, oversight, funding, operations, and networks: flex-based instruction: local educational agency contracting.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 69

    Artificial intelligence program: Attorney General.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 444

    State Healthy Food Access Policy.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 244

    Public postsecondary education: disabled student services: assessments.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 568

    Pupil health: epinephrine delivery systems: schoolsites and childcare programs.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 720

    Automated traffic enforcement system programs.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 63

    San Francisco Bay area: local revenue measure: public transit funding.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 535

    Obesity Care Access Act.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 692

    Vehicles: homelessness.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 24

    Public utilities: review of accounts: electrical and gas corporations: rates: political influence activities.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 473

    Water corporations: demand elasticity: rates and surcharges.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 580

    Attorney General: immigration enforcement policies.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 766

    California Combating Auto Retail Scams (CARS) Act.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 81

    Health and care facilities: information sharing.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 626

    Perinatal health screenings and treatment.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 839

    Oil spills: fishing: water closure: grants: liability.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 18

    Food Desert Elimination Grant Program.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 359

    Use Fuel Tax Law: Diesel Fuel Tax Law: exempt bus operation.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 669

    Rural hospitals: standby perinatal services.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 503

    Health care services: artificial intelligence.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 391

    Community colleges: Chancellor of the California Community Colleges: data request fee policy.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 498

    Incarcerated persons: communications.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 57

    Electrical corporations: data centers: report.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 616

    Community Hardening Commission: wildfire mitigation program.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 279

    Solid waste: compostable materials.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 769

    The Golden State Infrastructure Corporation Act.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 703

    Ports: truck drivers.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 354

    Insurance Information and Privacy Protection Act.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 754

    Menstrual products: disposable tampons and pad products: concerning chemicals.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 313

    Vital records: birth certificates.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 778

    Migrant childcare and development programs.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 487

    Workers' compensation.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 477

    California Fair Employment and Housing Act: enforcement procedures.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 234

    Wildfires: workgroup: toxic heavy metals.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 556

    Habitat enhancement and restoration: floodplains.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 62

    Health care coverage: essential health benefits.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 550

    California State University, San Jose: legal partnership pilot program.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 606

    Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: reporting requirements: functional zero unsheltered.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 653

    Wildfire prevention: environmentally sensitive vegetation management.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 323

    Student Aid Commission: California Dream Act application.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 290

    CalWORKs.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 37

    Attorneys: unlawful solicitations and advertisements.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 536

    Workers' compensation insurance fraud reporting.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 16

    Mental health: involuntary commitment.

    Do pass

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 842

    Energy: firm zero-carbon resources.

    Do pass as amended

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 861

    Consumer affairs.

    Consent Calendar 2nd SB861 B., P. & E.D.

    May 23, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 429

    Wildfire Safety and Risk Mitigation Program.

    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.

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 13, 2026. How

Committees

No committee assignments loaded for this legislator.

Issues

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