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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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  • SB 634

    Local government: homelessness.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 672

    The Youth Rehabilitation and Opportunity Act.

    3rd Reading SB672 Rubio et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 643

    Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchase Program.

    3rd Reading SB643 Caballero et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 238

    Workplace surveillance tools.

    3rd Reading SB238 Smallwood-Cuevas

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 582

    Health and care facilities: licensing during emergencies or disasters.

    3rd Reading SB582 Stern et al. By Cervantes

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 295

    California Preventing Algorithmic Collusion Act of 2025.

    3rd Reading SB295 Hurtado et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 825

    Consumers: financial protection.

    3rd Reading SB825 Limón et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 720

    Automated traffic enforcement system programs.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 256

    Electricity: electrical infrastructure: wildfire mitigation.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 415

    Planning and zoning: logistics use developments: truck routes.

    3rd Reading SB415 Reyes et al. By Durazo

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 707

    Open meetings: meeting and teleconference requirements.

    3rd Reading SB707 Durazo et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 641

    Department of Consumer Affairs and Department of Real Estate: states of emergency: waivers and exemptions.

    3rd Reading SB641 Ashby et al. Urgency Clause

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 788

    Tax preparers: exemptions.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 384

    Preventing Algorithmic Price Fixing Act: prohibition on certain price-setting algorithm uses.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 72

    The California Water Plan: long-term supply targets.

    3rd Reading SB72 Caballero et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 690

    Crimes: invasion of privacy.

    3rd Reading SB690 Caballero et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 567

    Gravity-Based Energy Storage Well Pilot Program.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 36

    Price gouging: state of emergency.

    3rd Reading SB36 Umberg et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 10

    Climate change: plans: gender impacts.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 516

    Enhanced infrastructure financing districts: California Capital City Downtown Revitalization Act.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 629

    Wildfires: fire hazard severity zones: post-wildfire safety areas.

    3rd Reading SB629 Durazo et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 547

    Commercial property insurance cancellation and nonrenewal.

    3rd Reading SB547 Pérez et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 682

    Environmental health: product safety: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 625

    Housing developments: disasters: reconstruction of destroyed or damaged structures.

    3rd Reading SB625 Wahab et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 610

    Disaster assistance: tenants, mobilehome parks, and mortgages.

    3rd Reading SB610 Pérez et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 292

    Electricity: wildfire mitigation: deenergization events and reliability.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 542

    Tribal gaming: compact ratification.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 379

    Sexually violent predators.

    3rd Reading (Urgency Clause)

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 6

    Controlled substances: xylazine.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

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  • SB 378

    Online marketplaces: illicit cannabis: reporting and liability.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 473

    Water corporations: demand elasticity: rates and surcharges.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 709

    Self-service storage facilities: rental agreement disclosures.

    3rd Reading SB709 Menjivar et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 783

    Outdoor advertising displays: redevelopment agency project areas.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 330

    Budgets: multiyear financial commitments.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 692

    Vehicles: homelessness.

    3rd Reading SB692 Arreguín et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 630

    State parks: real property: acquisitions and leases.

    3rd Reading SB630 Allen et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 522

    Housing: tenant protections.

    3rd Reading SB522 Wahab et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 616

    Community Hardening Commission: wildfire mitigation program.

    3rd Reading SB616 Rubio et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 791

    Vehicle dealers: document processing charge.

    3rd Reading SB791 Cortese et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 16

    Mental health: involuntary commitment.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 71

    California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: transit projects.

    3rd Reading SB71 Wiener et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 402

    Health care coverage: autism.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 833

    Critical infrastructure: artificial intelligence systems: human oversight.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 274

    Automated license plate recognition systems.

    3rd Reading SB274 Cervantes Motion to Reconsider

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 635

    Food vendors and facilities: enforcement activities.

    3rd Reading SB635 Durazo et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 34

    Air pollution: South Coast Air Quality Management District: mobile sources: Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.

    3rd Reading

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 257

    PARENT Act.

    3rd Reading SB257 Wahab et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 571

    Emergencies: crimes.

    3rd Reading SB571 Archuleta et al.

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 274

    Automated license plate recognition systems.

    3rd Reading SB274 Cervantes Motion to Reconsider Reconsider

    Jun 3, 2025 · Result: Passed

  • SB 442

    Grocery retail store and retail drug establishment employees: self-service checkout.

    3rd Reading SB442 Smallwood-Cuevas

    Jun 2, 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

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