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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 AB 1264 (Pupil nutrition: restricted school foods and ultraprocessed foods of concern: prohibition.). It passed. Aug 29, 2025
  • Voted Yes on AB 1344 (Restrictions on firearm possession: pilot project.). It passed. Aug 29, 2025
  • Voted Yes on AB 1288 (Registered environmental health specialists.). It passed. Aug 29, 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.

  • AB 1264

    Pupil nutrition: restricted school foods and ultraprocessed foods of concern: prohibition.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1344

    Restrictions on firearm possession: pilot project.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1288

    Registered environmental health specialists.

    Do pass as amended

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1156

    Williamson Act contracts: cancellation fees: photovoltaic solar facilities.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 394

    Public transportation providers.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 56

    Social media: warning labels.

    Do pass as amended

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1438

    School finance: administrative employee-to-teacher ratio: Paradise Unified School District.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1050

    Unlawfully restrictive covenants: housing developments.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • ACR 104

    Outdoor Worker Appreciation Week

    Special Consent ACR104 Wallis By Ochoa Bogh

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Other

  • AJR 15

    The Major Richard Star Act.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AJR15 Alanis et al.

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1413

    Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: groundwater adjudication.

    Do pass as amended

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1071

    Criminal procedure: discrimination.

    Do pass as amended

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1348

    Average daily attendance: emergencies: immigration enforcement activity: independent study plans.

    Do pass as amended

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 446

    Surveillance pricing.

    Do pass as amended

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

    Not voting Source ↗
  • AB 1418

    Department of Health Care Access and Information.

    Do pass as amended

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 489

    Health care professions: deceptive terms or letters: artificial intelligence.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 640

    Local educational agencies: governance training.

    Do pass as amended

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1043

    Age verification signals: software applications and online services.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 527

    California Environmental Quality Act: geothermal exploratory projects: geothermal field development projects: enhanced geothermal system wells.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1378

    Child welfare services: prevention services: Indian tribes.

    Do pass as amended

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • SCR 104

    Relative to National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

    3rd Reading SCR104 Valladares et al.

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 486

    Crimes: burglary tools.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 753

    Childcare: facility licensure: teacher requirements.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 86

    Instructional materials: health education.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1067

    Public employees' retirement: felony convictions.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1312

    Hospital pricing.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1445

    Downtown revitalization and economic recovery financing districts.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 727

    Pupil and student safety: identification cards.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 560

    Special education: resource specialists: special classes.

    Do pass as amended

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 833

    Teachers: exchange programs: local educational agencies: sponsors.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 28

    Solid waste landfills: subsurface temperatures.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 908

    Instructional materials: compliance review.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 440

    State bridges and overpasses: suicide prevention.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 44

    Energy: electrical demand forecasts.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1280

    Energy.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1041

    Health care coverage: health care provider credentials.

    Do pass as amended

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 932

    Community youth athletics programs: sex or gender discrimination.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 499

    Robert F. Kennedy Farm Workers Medical Plan.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 993

    Hazardous materials management: Rural CUPA Reimbursement Account.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 79

    Public social services: higher education.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1487

    Public health: Two-Spirit, Transgender, Gender Nonconforming, and Intersex Wellness and Equity Fund.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 742

    Department of Consumer Affairs: licensing: applicants who are descendants of slaves.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1231

    Criminal procedure: Safer Communities Through Opportunities Act.

    Do pass as amended

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 367

    Water: County of Ventura: fire suppression.

    Do pass as amended

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 247

    Incarcerated individual hand crew members: wages.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 33

    Autonomous vehicles.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 7

    Postsecondary education: admissions preference: descendants of slavery.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1356

    Alcohol and other drug programs.

    Do pass as amended

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 1127

    Firearms: converter pistols.

    Do pass as amended

    Aug 29, 2025 · Result: Passed Committee

  • AB 961

    Hazardous materials: California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act of 2004.

    Do pass

    Aug 29, 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, 05 Oct 2026 08:54:52 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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