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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 463 (Drought planning: resiliency measures.). It passed. May 5, 2025
  • Voted Yes on SB 659 (The Parent's Accountability and Child Protection Act: remedies.). It passed. May 5, 2025
  • Voted Yes on SB 555 (Workers' compensation: average annual earnings.). It passed. May 5, 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 463

    Drought planning: resiliency measures.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 659

    The Parent's Accountability and Child Protection Act: remedies.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 555

    Workers' compensation: average annual earnings.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 318

    Air pollution: stationary sources: best available control technology.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 420

    Property tax: welfare exemption: detention facilities.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 728

    California Consumer Financial Protection Law: commercial financing.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 416

    Student financial aid: Cal Grants: qualifying institutions: financial aid offer letter template.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 676

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

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SCR 62

    Relative to National Public Works Week.

    3rd Reading

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 834

    Criminal records: relief.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SR 27

    Relative to Cinco de Mayo Week.

    3rd Reading SR27 Gonzalez et al.

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 368

    Price gouging.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 661

    Airports: financial assistance.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 471

    Office of the Developmental Services Ombudsperson.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 648

    Employment: gratuities: enforcement.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 477

    California Fair Employment and Housing Act: enforcement procedures.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 411

    Stop Child Hunger Act of 2025.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 404

    Hazardous materials: metal shredding facilities.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 33

    Public contracts: claim resolution.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 398

    Election crimes: payment based on voting or voter registration.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 473

    Water corporations: demand elasticity: rates and surcharges.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 51

    Permanent standard time.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 468

    High-risk artificial intelligence systems: duty to protect personal information.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SCR 23

    California Peace Officers' Memorial Day.

    3rd Reading

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 824

    Secure youth treatment facilities.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 287

    California Trails Conservancy Program.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 559

    Electricity: deenergization events: communications.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 678

    Fire prevention activities: challenges: undertaking.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 822

    Unclaimed property: digital financial assets.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 668

    Workers' compensation: medical-legal expenses: fee schedule.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 352

    Environmental justice: Department of Justice: Bureau of Environmental Justice: community air monitoring.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 561

    Appointment of public guardians.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 798

    Veterans.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 501

    Responsible Battery Recycling Act of 2022: covered batteries.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 851

    Elections.

    Consent Calendar 2nd SB851 E. & C.A.

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 615

    Vehicle traction batteries.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 672

    The Youth Rehabilitation and Opportunity Act.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 692

    Vehicles: homelessness.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 349

    Emergency vehicles: blue warning lights.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 434

    Residential care facilities for the elderly: housing protections.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 91

    All-mailed ballot elections: vote centers.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 599

    Atmospheric rivers: research: forecasting methods: experimental tools.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 621

    Voter registration: military and overseas voters.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 305

    Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012: Free Application for Federal Student Aid and California Dream Act application.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 69

    Artificial intelligence program: Attorney General.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 759

    Crimes: supervised release.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 437

    California State University: claim eligibility: genealogy and descendancy.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 537

    Parole: revocation.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 44

    Brain-computer interfaces: neural data.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 833

    Critical infrastructure: artificial intelligence systems: human oversight.

    Placed on suspense file

    May 5, 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, 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 13, 2026. How

Committees

No committee assignments loaded for this legislator.

Issues

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