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Lola Smallwood-Cuevas

State Senator · Senate District 28 · Party: Democratic

3004 final-passage votes on record.

Record at a glance

3004
Final-passage votes
4352
All recorded votes

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OfficeDemocratic
Office
State Senator
District
Senate District 28
Party
Democratic
SourceOct 2, 2026

Last verified Oct 2, 2026.

Official source ↗

Photo: Photo via Open States

Today
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This tab shows Lola Smallwood-Cuevas's platform in two parts. In their own words: a short excerpt, word for word, from their own Issues or Priorities page, with a link to the whole page, and statements their office submits, labeled as such. Commitments tracked: specific, checkable promises (signing a named bill, funding a program at a stated amount, finishing a project by a date), each quoted with its date and source and checked in code before it's published, with a status that changes only with evidence.

How the platform is recorded

Showing final-passage votes only. Choose “All votes” to include procedural and other votes, clearly labeled.

  • SR 76

    Relative to Women's History Month.

    3rd Reading SR76 Menjivar et al.

    Mar 16, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SCR 114

    Relative to National Surveyors Week.

    3rd Reading

    Mar 16, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SR 85

    Relative to Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week.

    3rd Reading SR85 Umberg

    Mar 12, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SCR 127

    Relative to Multifaith Heritage Month.

    3rd Reading SCR127 Allen et al.

    Mar 12, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SCR 110

    Relative to Women's Military History Week.

    3rd Reading SCR110 Grove et al.

    Mar 12, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SCR 137

    Relative to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Day.

    3rd Reading

    Mar 12, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SCR 126

    Relative to Special Olympics Day.

    3rd Reading

    Mar 9, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SCR 135

    Relative to Peace Corps Week.

    3rd Reading

    Mar 9, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SR 79

    Relative to Sleep Health Awareness Week.

    3rd Reading SR79 Niello

    Mar 9, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SCR 120

    National Consumer Protection Week: Slam the Scam Day.

    3rd Reading

    Mar 9, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SR 83

    Relative to Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.

    3rd Reading SR83 McNerney

    Mar 9, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SR 84

    Relative to Women in Construction Week.

    3rd Reading SR84 Caballero et al.

    Mar 5, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SR 82

    Relative to Children's Dental Health Month.

    3rd Reading SR82 Pérez et al.

    Mar 5, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SR 81

    Relative to Read Across America Day.

    3rd Reading SR81 Pérez

    Mar 2, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SCR 125

    Relative to Ramadan.

    3rd Reading SCR125 Wahab et al.

    Mar 2, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SR 69

    Relative to Montessori Month.

    3rd Reading SR69 Niello

    Feb 23, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SCR 122

    Relative to Black History Month.

    3rd Reading SCR122 Weber Pierson et al.

    Feb 23, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • AB 117

    Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program: loans: transit operating purposes: San Francisco Bay area.

    3rd Reading AB117 BUDGET (Gabriel) By Laird

    Feb 19, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SCR 89

    Relative to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

    3rd Reading SCR89 Smallwood-Cuevas

    Feb 19, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • AB 107

    Budget Acts of 2023, 2024, and 2025.

    3rd Reading AB107 Gabriel By Laird

    Feb 19, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SR 78

    Relative to Japanese American concentration camps.

    3rd Reading SR78 Cabaldon et al.

    Feb 19, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SR 72

    Relative to the Lunar New Year.

    3rd Reading SR72 Wahab et al.

    Feb 17, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SR 77

    Relative to condemning racism.

    3rd Reading SR77 Weber Pierson et al.

    Feb 9, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 106

    Budget Act of 2025.

    Unfinished Business SB106 Laird Concurrence

    Feb 9, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SCR 115

    Relative to Wear Red Day.

    3rd Reading SCR115 Dahle et al.

    Feb 5, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SR 75

    Relative to CalEITC Awareness Week.

    3rd Reading SR75 Rubio

    Feb 5, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SR 71

    Relative to affordable homeownership.

    3rd Reading SR71 Arreguín et al.

    Feb 5, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SCR 109

    National Mentorship Month: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central California.

    3rd Reading SCR109 Grove et al.

    Feb 2, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 25

    Antitrust: premerger notification.

    Unfinished Business SB25 Umberg Concurrence

    Feb 2, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SCR 111

    Certified public accountants: 125th anniversary.

    3rd Reading

    Feb 2, 2026 · Result: Passed

    Not voting Source ↗
  • SCR 112

    Relative to National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.

    3rd Reading SCR112 Grove et al.

    Jan 29, 2026 · Result: Passed

    Not voting Source ↗
  • SR 74

    Relative to the Standing Rules of the Senate for the 2025–26 Regular Session.

    3rd Reading SR74 Ashby

    Jan 29, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 288

    Property taxation: change in ownership: family homes and farms.

    3rd Reading

    Jan 27, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 555

    Workers' compensation: average annual earnings.

    3rd Reading SB555 Caballero et al.

    Jan 27, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 417

    The Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026.

    3rd Reading SB417 Cabaldon et al. Urgency Clause

    Jan 27, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 492

    Wildfire.

    3rd Reading (Urgency Clause)

    Jan 27, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 758

    Public health: nitrous oxide.

    3rd Reading

    Jan 27, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 667

    Railroads: safety: report.

    3rd Reading

    Jan 27, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 260

    Unmanned aircraft.

    3rd Reading

    Jan 27, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 381

    Vital records: adoptees' birth certificates.

    3rd Reading SB381 Wahab et al.

    Jan 27, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 795

    Air pollution: gasoline vapor control systems: ethanol blends.

    3rd Reading

    Jan 27, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 239

    Crimes: criminal threats.

    3rd Reading

    Jan 27, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 247

    State agency contracts: bid preference: equity metrics.

    3rd Reading SB247 Smallwood-Cuevas

    Jan 27, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 73

    Elections.

    3rd Reading (Urgency Clause)

    Jan 27, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 327

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

    3rd Reading

    Jan 27, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 501

    Responsible Battery Recycling Act of 2022: covered batteries.

    3rd Reading

    Jan 27, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 327

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

    3rd Reading

    Jan 27, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 401

    Political Reform Act of 1974: filing deadlines: emergency situations.

    3rd Reading

    Jan 27, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 46

    Presidential elections: qualifications for office.

    3rd Reading

    Jan 27, 2026 · Result: Passed

  • SB 327

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

    3rd Reading SB327 McNerney Reconsider

    Jan 27, 2026 · Result: Passed

Older votes

Money raised and spent by the campaign committees Lola Smallwood-Cuevas 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

$835,514

Spent $767,601

Totals

  • Raised
    6 statements, Summary Page line 5
    $835,514
  • Spent
    Summary Page line 11
    $767,601
  • From individuals (itemized)
    257 contributions of $100 or more, net of refunds
    $93,143 11%

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
    $296,594
  • Health care
    $47,846
  • Issue and advocacy groups
    $46,562
  • Education
    $40,547
  • Tribal governments
    $24,100
  • Lawyers and lobbyists
    $22,267
  • Technology and telecommunications
    $21,500
  • Finance, insurance and banking
    $18,570

Approximate. Industries are assigned by keywords in organizations' names and in the employers individual donors named; 74% 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

  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
    16 donors · Education
    $2,612
  • NEIGHBORHOOD FUNDERS GROUP
    3 donors · Not classified
    $2,000
  • LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
    9 donors · Education
    $1,828
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES LABOR CENTER
    5 donors · Education
    $1,641
  • CITY OF LOS ANGELES
    4 donors · Government and public sector
    $1,519
  • AG & ASSOCIATES
    3 donors · Not classified
    $1,250
  • L NORWOOD AND ASSOCIATES LLC
    3 donors · Not classified
    $708
  • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    4 donors · Education
    $700
  • HANDELMAN CONSULTING
    4 donors · Not classified
    $554
  • SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION 2015
    3 donors · Labor unions
    $308

The employers individual donors named, summed; an employer is listed only when 3 or more people named it. $30,336 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

  • United Domestic Workers of America Action Fund
    3 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
    $19,600
  • California Professional Firefighters PAC
    8 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
    $18,300
  • California State Council of Laborers PAC
    2 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
    $17,700
  • California-Nevada Conference of Operating Engineers PAC
    4 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
    $14,400
  • California Nurses Association PAC (CNA-PAC)
    6 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
    $13,200
  • California Federation of Teachers COPE
    5 contributions · small contributor committee · Labor unions
    $11,800
  • California State Council of Service Employees
    2 contributions · small contributor committee · Issue and advocacy groups
    $11,800
  • Service Employees International Union Local 1000 Candidate PAC
    1 contribution · small contributor committee · Labor unions
    $11,800
  • Service Employees International Union Local 721, CTW, CLC State & Local
    1 contribution · small contributor committee · Labor unions
    $11,800
  • Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians
    2 contributions · organization · Tribal governments
    $11,800

Contributions itemized on Schedule A from political committees, parties, businesses and other organizations, by the name reported. Transfers between Lola Smallwood-Cuevas's own committees aren't counted.

Independent expenditures for and against

Spent to support: $1,175

  • Los Angeles County Democratic Party ? State Candidate Committee
    race: State Senate · 1 report · May 19, 2026
    $1,175

Spent to oppose: $0

None reported.

Spending on ads and outreach about Lola Smallwood-Cuevas 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 (1)

The committees Lola Smallwood-Cuevas 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.

LOLA SMALLWOOD-CUEVAS FOR SENATE 2026

  • Jul 1, 2026 to Sep 19, 2026
    Spent $195,950 · cash at end $381,981 Statement ↗
    $130,475 received
  • May 17, 2026 to Jun 30, 2026
    Spent $76,714 · cash at end $447,452 Statement ↗
    $107,962 received
  • Apr 19, 2026 to May 16, 2026
    Spent $43,884 · cash at end $416,284 Statement ↗
    $76,659 received
  • Jan 1, 2026 to Apr 18, 2026
    Spent $205,049 · cash at end $258,177 Statement ↗
    $114,216 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.

Methodology
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 and members of the Legislature file theirs with the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), which publishes them.

  • Form 700, Annual Senator · State Senate Filed Mar 2, 2026 · covers 2025 Statement (PDF) ↗
  • Form 700, Annual Senator · State Senate Filed Mar 3, 2025 · covers 2024 Statement (PDF) ↗
  • Form 700, Annual Senator · State Senate Filed Mar 1, 2024 · covers 2023 Statement (PDF) ↗
  • Form 700, Annual Senator · State Senate Filed Mar 1, 2023 · covers 2022 Statement (PDF) ↗
  • Form 700, Candidate Senator · State Senate Filed Mar 15, 2022 · covers 2022 Statement (PDF) ↗

Source: FPPC Form 700 search ↗, searched Oct 6, 2026. How

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