State · State Senate
Steve Choi
State Senator · Senate District 37 · Party: Republican
3011 final-passage votes on record.
A member of California's state Senate, which votes on the state's laws and budget.
- Voted No on SB 281 (Pleas: immigration advisement.). It passed. May 28, 2025
- Voted Yes on SB 291 (Contractors: workers' compensation insurance.). It passed. May 28, 2025
- Voted Yes on SB 486 (Regional housing: public postsecondary education: changes in enrollment levels: California Environmental Quality Act.). It passed. May 27, 2025
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Office
- Office
- State Senator
- District
- Senate District 37
- Party
- Republican
- Website
- Official site ↗
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No platform recorded yet
This tab shows Steve Choi'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 recordedShowing every recorded vote. Procedural, amendment, committee, and nomination votes are labeled.
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SB 486
Regional housing: public postsecondary education: changes in enrollment levels: California Environmental Quality Act.
3rd Reading
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SB 27
Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program.
3rd Reading (Urgency Clause)
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SB 491
State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: chair: report to the Legislature.
3rd Reading SB491 Laird et al.
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SB 276
City and County of San Francisco: merchandising sales.
3rd Reading SB276 Wiener et al. Urgency Clause
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SB 489
Local agency formation commissions: written policies and procedures: Permit Streamlining Act: housing development projects.
3rd Reading
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SB 346
Local agencies: transient occupancy taxes: short-term rental facilitator.
3rd Reading SB346 Durazo et al.
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SB 508
California Environmental Quality Act: transportation impact mitigation.
3rd Reading SB508 Valladares et al.
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SB 390
Community facilities district: inclusion or annexation of territory: County of San Mateo.
3rd Reading
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SB 21
Single-room occupancy units: demolition and replacement: housing assistance programs: eligibility for homeless individuals and families.
3rd Reading
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SB 227
Green Empowerment Zone for the Northern Waterfront area of the County of Contra Costa.
3rd Reading SB227 Grayson et al. Urgency Clause
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SB 845
Pupil instruction: career technical education, career education, work-based learning, work experience education, and apprenticeships.
3rd Reading SB845 Pérez et al.
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SB 611
Planning and zoning: community plans: review under the California Environmental Quality Act.
3rd Reading (Urgency Clause)
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SB 802
Housing finance and development: Sacramento Regional Housing and Homelessness Joint Powers Authority Act.
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SB 344
California Environmental Quality Act: City of San Diego: mixed-use development project.
Consent Calendar 2nd SB344 Weber Pierson
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Money raised and spent by the campaign committees Steve Choi 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
$83,000
Spent $45,587
Totals
- Raised$83,000
- Spent$45,587
- From individuals (itemized)$4,900 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)
- Health care$13,500
- Tribal governments$10,900
- Technology and telecommunications$7,500
- Media and entertainment$4,500
- Finance, insurance and banking$3,000
- Transportation$3,000
- Construction and engineering$2,500
- Energy and utilities$2,000
Approximate. Industries are assigned by keywords in organizations' names and in the employers individual donors named; 64% of these itemized dollars matched an industry, and the rest are left unclassified rather than guessed.
How industries are assignedTop 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. $400 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
- California Correctional Peace Officers Association PAC$6,900
- CALPAC California Medical Assoc$6,000
- Irvine management company$4,900
- Pachanga band of Indians$4,900
- Aristotle International Inc FBO Amazon.com$4,000
- California dental Association PAC$4,000
- Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians$3,000
- Barona Band of Mission Indians$3,000
- California new car dealers association PAC$3,000
- LAND PAC Calif Landscape COntractors Assoc$2,500
Contributions itemized on Schedule A from political committees, parties, businesses and other organizations, by the name reported. Transfers between Steve Choi'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 Steve Choi 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 Steve Choi 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.
Steven Choi Senate Officeholder Account 2024
- Jul 1, 2026 to Sep 19, 2026$4,500 received
- Jan 1, 2026 to Jun 30, 2026$20,500 received
- Jul 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025$36,100 received
- Jan 1, 2025 to Jun 30, 2025$21,800 received
Steven Choi for Senate 2024
- Jul 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025$0 received
- Jan 1, 2025 to Jun 30, 2025$100 received
- Oct 20, 2024 to Dec 31, 2024$358,468 received
- Sep 22, 2024 to Oct 19, 2024$177,444 received
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.
MethodologyDisclosures
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 Feb 27, 2026 · covers 2024 · amendment Statement (PDF) ↗
- Form 700, Annual Senator · State Senate Filed Feb 27, 2026 · covers 2025 Statement (PDF) ↗
- Form 700, Annual Senator · State Senate Filed Feb 27, 2025 · covers 2024 Statement (PDF) ↗
- Form 700, Candidate Senator · State Senate Filed Dec 5, 2023 · covers 2023 Statement (PDF) ↗
Source: FPPC Form 700 search ↗, searched Oct 7, 2026. How
Committees
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Issues
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