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Laura Richardson

Senator, State Senate

In the Legislature

Senate District 35 D · 3,677 floor votes this session, 2% not voting

Committees they vote in: Appropriations · Transportation · Governmental Organization · Health · Budget and Fiscal Review · Energy, Utilities and Communications · Banking and Financial Institutions · Insurance · Business, Professions and Economic Development

Bills they lead: 67 (37 became law) — AB 2599, AB 801, ACR 116, ACR 134, ACR 214, ACR 30, ACR 7, ACR 90, SB 1089, SB 1312, SB 1322, SB 1337 …

Bills their donors lobbied on

Bills they voted on (latest floor vote) that were lobbied by employers that gave to their campaign, reported spending on them, or paid at their request: the largest first. A lobbying report names the bill, not the side the employer took.

Bill	Their vote	Employers that lobbied on it, and what they gave
SB 222 Residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC systems.	Aye 2026-08-25	PHILLIPS 66 ($5,000 behested); CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($170 gifts)
SB 237 Oil spill prevention: gasoline specifications: suspension: California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: County of Kern: transportation fuels assessment: coastal resources.	Aye 2025-09-13	PHILLIPS 66 ($5,000 behested)
AB 751 Rest periods: petroleum facilities: safety-sensitive positions.	Aye 2025-06-27	PHILLIPS 66 ($5,000 behested)
AB 246 Social Security Tenant Protection Act of 2025.	Aye 2025-09-09	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts); CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($170 gifts)
SB 607 Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District: contributions and loans.	Aye 2026-08-17	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts); CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($170 gifts)
SB 253 State Bar of California.	Aye 2025-09-10	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts)
SB 41 Pharmacy benefits.	Aye 2025-09-10	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts)
SB 717 Ken Maddy California Cancer Registry.	Aye 2025-09-11	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts)
SB 790 Postsecondary education: interstate reciprocity agreements for distance education: out-of-state postsecondary educational institutions.	Aye 2025-06-02	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts)
SB 98 Elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education: immigration enforcement: notification.	Aye 2025-09-02	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts)
SB 261 Division of Labor Standards Enforcement: orders, decisions, and awards.	Aye 2025-09-09	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts)
SB 632 Community colleges: California College Promise.	Aye 2026-08-30	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts)
AB 594 Student health insurance.	Aye 2025-07-17	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts)
AB 543 Medi-Cal: field medicine.	Aye 2025-09-09	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts)
AB 1098 California Education Interagency Council.	Aye 2025-09-12	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts)
AB 1410 Utilities: service outages and updates: alerts.	Aye 2025-09-09	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts)
SB 1150 Cancer data: notifications.	Aye 2026-05-22	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts)
SB 895 California Science and Health Research Bond Act.	Aye 2026-08-31	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts)
SR 104	Not voting 2026-06-08	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts)
AB 2571 Reimbursement for pharmacist services.	Aye 2026-08-25	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts)
AB 1697 Employment contracts: stay-or-pay provisions: contract date.	Aye 2026-08-25	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts)
AB 1331 Workplace surveillance.	Aye 2026-08-31	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425 gifts)
AB 831 Gambling: operation of a contest or sweepstakes.	Aye 2025-09-08	SPORTS BETTING ALLIANCE ($198 gifts); DRAFTKINGS, INC. AND ITS AFFILIATES ($135 gifts)
SB 489 Local agency formation commissions: written policies and procedures: Permit Streamlining Act: housing development projects.	Aye 2025-09-04	CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($170 gifts)
SB 259 Elections: vote by mail ballots.	Aye 2026-08-30	CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($170 gifts)
SB 82 Contracts: consumer goods and services: dispute resolution provisions.	Aye 2025-06-02	CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($170 gifts)
SB 840 Greenhouse gases: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: studies.	Aye 2025-09-13	CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($170 gifts)
SB 415 Planning and zoning: logistics use developments: truck routes.	Aye 2025-09-13	CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($170 gifts)
SB 709 Self-service storage facilities: rental agreement disclosures.	Aye 2025-09-11	CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($170 gifts)
SB 36 Price gouging: state of emergency.	Aye 2025-09-11	CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($170 gifts)

Form 700 statements

Statement	Filed	What it lists
2025 Annual Senator, State Senate	2026-03-02	1 businesses & trusts, 54 gifts, 5 travel
2024 Annual Senator, State Senate	2025-02-28	1 businesses & trusts, 2 gifts, 1 travel

Findings

Worth a look Lobbying · the statement

Lobbying reports name $203.53 in gifts to them in 2025 from 1 source this statement doesn't list

Lobbyist employers' reports to the Secretary of State (Cal-Access) list activity expenses that benefited them in 2025, $50 or more from each of these sources, none named among the statement's gifts or travel: California Correctional Peace Officers Association $203.53 (dinner).

What to check

Whether they attended or accepted it: the report is the lobbyist employer's account.
What Schedule D doesn't require (Form 700 instructions): gifts returned within 30 days; free admission and food at an event where they made a speech, from its organizer; up to two tickets to a campaign or 501(c)(3) fundraiser from the organization holding it; informational material; plaques worth less than $250.
Whether it's on the statement under another name.
That the report's beneficiary is this person (matched by name and office).

California Correctional Peace Officers Association $203.53

2025-03-18 Dinner at The Firehouse $203.53 · lobbyist employer report

Rule: Lobbying gifts not on the statement

“A gift is reportable if its fair market value is $50 or more. In addition, multiple gifts totaling $50 or more received during the reporting period from a single source must be reported.”Form 700 (2025/2026), Instructions – Schedule D ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Context Behested payments

Of $21,000 paid at their request since 2024: 1 source ($5,000) is a registered lobbyist employer

Payments made at their request (Form 803) from sources that also appear in Cal-Access: Phillips 66 ($5,000 to NEW LYFE FOUNDATION; lobbyist employer).

What to check

Context: behested payments are legal and public; this puts two public records side by side.
Whether the official later acted on matters involving these sources.
The full Form 803 reports (available from the FPPC on request).

Phillips 66 paid $5,000 to NEW LYFE FOUNDATION · registered lobbyist employer

Rule: Behested payments from donors or lobbyist employers

“Unlike gifts and contributions, there are no limits on the amount of payments an official may behest.”FPPC, Reporting Behested Payments – Form 803 ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Context Lobbying

7 of their donors and benefactors lobbied on 79 bills they voted on

Employers that lobbied on bills they voted on (as their lobbying reports name the bills) and that gave $1,106 in gifts reported by lobbying interests, $5,000 in payments at their request. Largest: PHILLIPS 66 ($5,000); UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($425); SPORTS BETTING ALLIANCE ($198); CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($170); CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR ($144). They voted aye on 77 of the 79.

What to check

Context: lobbying a bill and funding a member are both legal and public.
A report names the bills an employer lobbied on, not which side it took: read the bill and the employer's position before drawing anything from a vote.
The bills on their page, sorted by how much these interests gave.

Rule: Bills their donors lobbied on

How this rule works

Context Travel payments · the statement

Lists $8,308.52 in travel paid by others (5 payments)

Largest: Maui, HI ($4,883.32, Independent Voter Project), La Jolla, CA ($1,466, California Issues Forum), Newport Beach, CA ($1,255.52, California Independent Petroleum Association). 5 of 5 are listed as gifts.

What to check

Who paid, and for what: speeches, conferences and nonprofit-paid travel are treated differently (Schedule E instructions).
Whether the paying organizations have business before the office.

Travel: Independent Voter Project $4,883 p.11 Travel: California Issues Forum $1,466 p.11 Travel: California Independent Petroleum Association $1,256 p.11

Rule: Travel paid by others

“Travel payments from third parties (not your employer).”Form 700 (2025/2026), Types of reportable interests ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Behested payments

What Laura Richardson reported others paying at their request (FPPC Form 803) since 2024: $21,000 in 5 payments to 4 recipients. Officials report a source that pays $5,000 or more in a year; there is no limit.

Largest recipients: NEW LYFE FOUNDATION $10,000 · Julia Banks Williams Delta Associates Foundation, Inc $5,000 · Adriana Vazquez $3,000 · Saela Johnson $3,000

Paid by	To, for	Amount
California Legislative Black Caucus Los Angeles	Julia Banks Williams Delta Associates Foundation, Inc · Funds to support their youth scholarship program Charitable · 2025-12-11	$5,000
Phillips 66 SACRAMENTO · registered lobbyist employer · campaign donor	NEW LYFE FOUNDATION · FUNDS PROVIDED FOR THANKSGIVING FOOD GIVEAWAY TO FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AFFECTED DURING THE GOVERNMANT SHUT DOWN Charitable · 2025-12-02	$5,000
Torrance Refinery Torrance	NEW LYFE FOUNDATION · Funds to support holiday food distribution for 250 families Charitable · 2025-12-02	$5,000
Women in California Leadership Sacramento	Adriana Vazquez · Minerva Scholarship recipient Charitable · 2026-08-04	$3,000
Women in California Leadership Sacramento	Saela Johnson · Minerva Scholarship recipient Charitable · 2026-08-04	$3,000

From the FPPC's Form 803 data (search and download). “Campaign donor” links to a donor who gave to two or more 2026 state candidates.

Reported by lobbying interests

What lobbyist employers, lobbyists and lobbying firms told the Secretary of State they spent on Laura Richardson since 2024: $3,163 across 14 items from 13 sources. Each amount is their share as the report gives it. Matched by name and office.

Reported by	What, when	To them
CALIFORNIA INDEPENDENT PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION (CIPA) $804 in all	OIL & GAS POLICY SUMMIT LODGING, PARKING at HYATT REGENCY LAKE TAHOE · 2026-06-11 · report	$804.44
WESTERN STATES PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION $534 in all	LODGING at WALDORF ASTORIA MONARCH BEACH · 2025-10-13 · report	$533.75
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE $425 in all	Football Game Tickets, Parking Pass at University of Southern California · 2025-11-29 · report	$425
FanDuel Group, Inc $205 in all	Food, Beverage & Entertainment at California Tribal Business Association · 2025-01-16 · report	$204.84
California Correctional Peace Officers Association $204 in all	Dinner at The Firehouse · 2025-03-18 · report	$203.53
SPORTS BETTING ALLIANCE $198 in all	Food,Beverage & Entertainment at California Tribal Business Association · 2026-01-15 · report	$198.25
CIVIL JUSTICE ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA $192 in all	DINNER at BLUEWATER GRILL · 2026-06-18 · report	$192.19
CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE $170 in all	DINNER at PARK CLUB · 2025-10-21 · report	$169.93
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR $144 in all	CSU Systemwide Parking Pass 2025-26 at CSU Chancellor's Office · 2025-09-17 · report	$144
DRAFTKINGS, INC. AND ITS AFFILIATES $135 in all	Food, Beverage & Entertainment at California Tribal Business Association · 2025-01-16 · report	$135.19
Sempra and its Affiliates: San Diego Gas & Electric Company and Southern California Gas Company $60 in all	Dessert at Roy's at Pebble Beach at Roy's at Pebble Beach · 2025-10-24 · report	$19
	Meal and beverage at breakfast meeting at Fox & Goose · 2025-07-15 · report	$40.55
CALIFORNIA BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION $59 in all	MEAL at PRELUDE KITCHEN & BAR · 2025-04-02 · report	$58.88
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY COUNCIL $34 in all	Lunch at Specialty's Cafe & Bakery · 2025-10-15 · report	$33.72

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