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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 679 (Health care facilities: physicians and surgeons: terminations and revocation of staff privileges: data reporting by race and gender.). It passed. Apr 21, 2025
  • Voted Yes on SB 579 (Mental health and artificial intelligence working group.). It passed. Apr 21, 2025
  • Voted Yes on SB 461 (State real property: City of Imperial.). It passed. Apr 21, 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 679

    Health care facilities: physicians and surgeons: terminations and revocation of staff privileges: data reporting by race and gender.

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

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 579

    Mental health and artificial intelligence working group.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 461

    State real property: City of Imperial.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 450

    Adoption.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 717

    Ken Maddy California Cancer Registry.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 729

    State of emergency: nonprofit liaison.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 451

    Gambling.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SCR 59

    Relative to Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month.

    3rd Reading SCR59 Allen et al.

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 433

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

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 553

    Prisons: clearances.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 808

    Civil Actions: writs: housing development projects.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 10

    Climate change: plans: gender impacts.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 652

    Private security services: security guards: training.

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

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 444

    State Healthy Food Access Policy.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 29

    Civil actions: decedent's cause of action.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 686

    Housing programs: financing.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 228

    Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 42

    Political Reform Act of 1974: public campaign financing: California Fair Elections Act of 2026.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 524

    Law enforcement agencies: artificial intelligence.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SR 35

    Relative to Khmer New Year.

    3rd Reading SR35 Gonzalez et al.

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 93

    Weapons: robotic devices.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 278

    Health data: HIV test results.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 478

    School accountability: Statewide School Library Lead.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 609

    Fish: commercial fishing.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SCR 47

    250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

    3rd Reading

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 552

    Juveniles: wards: case plans.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 50

    Connected devices: device protection requests.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 744

    Accrediting agencies.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 431

    Assault and battery: utility workers.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 515

    Local government: collection of demographic data.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SCR 43

    Relative to Parkinson's Awareness Month.

    3rd Reading

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 20

    Occupational safety: high-exposure trigger tasks on artificial stone.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 509

    Office of Emergency Services: training: transnational repression.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 53

    Artificial intelligence models: large developers.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 680

    Sex offender registration: unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 600

    Public Employment Relations Board: powers and duties.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 391

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

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 663

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

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 654

    California Environmental Protection Agency: contract: registry: greenhouse gas emissions that result from the water-energy nexus.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SR 33

    Relative to the Armenian Genocide.

    3rd Reading SR33 Pérez et al.

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 790

    Postsecondary education: interstate reciprocity agreements for distance education: out-of-state postsecondary educational institutions.

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

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 291

    Contractors: workers' compensation insurance.

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

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 78

    Department of Transportation: report: state highway system: safety enhancements.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 402

    Health care coverage: autism.

    Do pass

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 602

    Veterinarians: veterinarian-client-patient relationship.

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

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 351

    Health facilities.

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

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SB 74

    Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation: Infrastructure Gap-Fund Program.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 454

    State Water Resources Control Board: PFAS Mitigation Program.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 246

    Medi-Cal: graduate medical education payments.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • SB 778

    Migrant childcare and development programs.

    Placed on suspense file

    Apr 21, 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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