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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 9, 2026

Last verified Oct 9, 2026.

Official source ↗

Photo: Photo via Open States

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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.

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  • SCR 80

    Relative to Frontotemporal Degeneration Awareness Week.

    3rd Reading SCR80 Niello et al.

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SCR 61

    Military and Veteran Suicide Prevention Awareness.

    3rd Reading SCR61 Archuleta et al.

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SCR 28

    Relative to Gold Star Mothers' and Families' Day.

    3rd Reading SCR28 Grove et al.

    Aug 18, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1085

    License plates: obstruction or alteration.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 493

    Mortgages: hazard insurance proceeds.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB493 Harabedian et al. Urgency Clause

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SJR 6

    Federal funding for essential state infrastructure, technology, and economic development.

    3rd Reading SJR6 Cortese et al.

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1029

    Statements of financial interest: digital financial assets.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB1029 Valencia et al.

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SJR 7

    Relative to tariffs.

    3rd Reading SJR7 Cervantes et al.

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 138

    State employment: state bargaining units.

    3rd Reading AB138 BUDGET (Gabriel) By Wiener

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SCR 99

    Relative to Eunice Newton Foote.

    3rd Reading

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1505

    Food and agriculture: omnibus bill.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB1505 AGRI. (Soria) By Caballero

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 594

    Student health insurance.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB594 Solache et al.

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 821

    Pupil instruction: high school graduation requirements: career technical education.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 14

    Coastal resources: Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies Program.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB14 Hart et al.

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1286

    Political Reform Act of 1974: prospective employment.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1387

    Behavioral health multidisciplinary personnel team.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB1387 Quirk-Silva

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1447

    Unclaimed property: escheat to the state.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1479

    County road commissioner: Counties of Madera and Tehama.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB1479 Tangipa et al.

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 17

    Elections: precinct maps.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 359

    Fair Political Practices Commission.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 119

    Public social services trailer bill.

    Unfinished Business SB119 B. & F.R. (Wiener) Concurrence

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 463

    Emergency medical services: dogs and cats.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB463 Michelle Rodriguez

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 104

    Budget Act of 2025.

    3rd Reading AB104 Gabriel By Wiener

    Jul 17, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 379

    Crimes: prostitution.

    3rd Reading AB379 Schultz et al. By Arreguín

    Jul 14, 2025 · Result: Passed

    Not voting Source ↗
  • SCR 78

    Relative to the Detective Sergeant Ed Wilkinson, Deputy Sheriff Brent Jameson, and Deputy Sheriff Bliss Magly Memorial Overcrossing.

    3rd Reading

    Jul 14, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 629

    School districts: equipment inventory.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1141

    Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District: board of directors: election: compensation.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 965

    Vehicles: electric bicycles.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1255

    Pupil instruction: newcomer pupils: migrant education: migrant regions.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB1255 ED. (Muratsuchi) Urgency Clause

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1272

    Department of Motor Vehicles: occupational licensees.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SCR 90

    Relative to the Brigadier General Charles Young Memorial Highway.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SCR 82

    Relative to artificial intelligence in public higher education.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 456

    Mobilehome parks: sales or transfers: prospective purchasers of mobilehomes.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1518

    Income taxes: administration: nonresident aliens: identifying numbers: group filing.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB1518 REV. & TAX.

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 525

    Basic Inspection of Terminals program: agricultural vehicles.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 703

    California Pediatric Cancer Research Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1507

    Financial institutions.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB1507 B. & F.

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SR 32

    Relative to birthright citizenship.

    3rd Reading SR32 Wahab

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1170

    Maintenance of the codes.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 642

    Emergencies proclaimed by the Governor: school employee catastrophic leave.

    Consent Calendar 2nd (Urgency Clause)

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 466

    Public postsecondary education: Donate Life California: educational information.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1516

    Real property taxation.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB1516 REV. & TAX.

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 951

    Health care coverage: behavioral diagnoses.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB951 Ta et al.

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 829

    Richard Paul Hemann Parkinson's Disease Program: Parkinson's Disease Research Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB829 Sharp-Collins

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 1051

    Route 76: Payómkawish Highway.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 10, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 784

    Special education: specialized deaf and hard-of-hearing services.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 377

    High-Speed Rail Authority: business plan: Merced to Bakersfield segment.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 711

    Civil Actions: shorthand reporters.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 553

    CalFresh: food access.

    Consent Calendar 2nd AB553 Caloza et al.

    Jul 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • AB 545

    Vehicles: electric bicycles.

    Consent Calendar 2nd

    Jul 3, 2025 · 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

Committees

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