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Maria Elena Durazo

Senator, State Senate

In the Legislature

Senate District 26 D · 3,677 floor votes this session, 1% not voting

Committees they vote in: Judiciary · Health · Local Government · Labor, Public Employment and Retirement · Housing · Budget and Fiscal Review · Human Services

Bills they lead: 52 (34 became law) — AB 2181, AB 770, AB 817, AB 858, ACR 10, ACR 118, SB 1085, SB 1149, SB 1160, SB 1170, SB 1187, SB 1227 …

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 504 Communicable diseases: HIV reporting.	Aye 2025-09-09	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
SB 418 Health care coverage: prescription hormone therapy and nondiscrimination.	Aye 2025-09-11	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
SB 590 Paid family leave: eligibility: care for designated persons.	Aye 2025-09-10	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
SB 450 Adoption.	Aye 2025-09-11	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
SB 278 Health data: HIV test results.	Aye 2025-09-09	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
SB 48 Educational equity: discrimination prevention coordinators.	Aye 2025-09-13	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
SB 497 Legally protected health care activity.	Aye 2025-09-10	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
SB 59 Change of name or gender and sex identifier.	Aye 2025-09-13	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
AB 379 Crimes: prostitution.	Aye 2025-07-14	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
AB 309 Hypodermic needles and syringes.	Aye 2025-09-03	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
AB 822 Commission on the State of Hate.	Aye 2025-09-08	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
AB 449 Civil Rights Department: antidiscrimination campaigns.	Aye 2025-09-08	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
AB 554 Health care coverage: antiretroviral drugs, drug devices, and drug products.	Aye 2025-09-09	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
AB 727 Pupil and student safety: identification cards.	Aye 2025-09-09	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
AB 678 Interagency Council on Homelessness.	Aye 2025-09-10	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
AB 1084 Change of name and gender and sex identifier.	Aye 2025-09-12	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
AB 715 Educational equity: discrimination: antisemitism prevention.	Aye 2025-09-12	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
AB 82 Health care: legally protected health care activity.	Aye 2025-09-09	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
SB 608 Sexual health.	Aye 2026-08-26	EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($845 gifts)
SB 576 Video streaming services: commercial advertisements.	Aye 2025-09-10	PARAMOUNT PICTURES/PARAMOUNT GLOBAL ($99 gifts); WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY (FKA WARNERMEDIA AND WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.) ($95 gifts); MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC. ($71 gifts); SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT ($23 gifts)
SB 630 State parks: real property: acquisitions and leases.	Aye 2025-09-12	PARAMOUNT PICTURES/PARAMOUNT GLOBAL ($99 gifts); WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY (FKA WARNERMEDIA AND WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.) ($95 gifts); MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC. ($71 gifts); SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT ($23 gifts)
AB 1138 Income and corporate taxes: tax credits: motion pictures.	Aye 2025-07-03	PARAMOUNT PICTURES/PARAMOUNT GLOBAL ($99 gifts); WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY (FKA WARNERMEDIA AND WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.) ($95 gifts); MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC. ($71 gifts); SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT ($23 gifts)
AB 1776 Cartwright Act: violations.	Aye 2026-08-30	California Environmental Voters ($109 gifts); MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC. ($71 gifts); SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT ($23 gifts)
SB 122 Taxation.	Aye 2026-06-18	WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY (FKA WARNERMEDIA AND WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.) ($95 gifts); MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC. ($71 gifts); SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT ($23 gifts)
AB 1043 Age verification signals: software applications and online services.	Aye 2025-09-12	PARAMOUNT PICTURES/PARAMOUNT GLOBAL ($99 gifts); MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC. ($71 gifts)
AB 1856 Age verification signals: software applications.	Aye 2026-08-26	PARAMOUNT PICTURES/PARAMOUNT GLOBAL ($99 gifts); MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC. ($71 gifts)
SB 1000 California AI Transparency Act.	Aye 2026-08-27	WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY (FKA WARNERMEDIA AND WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.) ($95 gifts); MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC. ($71 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	California Environmental Voters ($109 gifts)
SB 840 Greenhouse gases: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: studies.	Aye 2025-09-13	California Environmental Voters ($109 gifts)
SB 34 Air pollution: South Coast Air Quality Management District: mobile sources: Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.	Aye 2025-09-13	California Environmental Voters ($109 gifts)

Form 700 statements

Statement	Filed	What it lists
2025 Annual Senator, State Senate	2026-02-27	20 gifts, 2 travel
2024 Annual (amendment) Senator, State Senate	2025-02-28	1 gifts
2024 Annual Senator, State Senate	2025-02-27	27 gifts, 3 travel

Findings

Worth a look Lobbying · the statement

Lobbying reports name $258.76 in gifts to them in 2024 from 3 sources this statement doesn't list

Lobbyist employers' reports to the Secretary of State (Cal-Access) list activity expenses that benefited them in 2024, $50 or more from each of these sources, none named among the statement's gifts or travel: PARAMOUNT PICTURES/PARAMOUNT GLOBAL $99 (lunch); WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY (FKA WARNERMEDIA AND WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.) $95 (screening); California Environmental Voters $64.76 (meal, meal for staff member).

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).

PARAMOUNT PICTURES/PARAMOUNT GLOBAL $99

2024-07-31 LUNCH at PARAMOUNT STUDIOS $99 (of $598.29 for everyone it lists) · lobbyist employer report

WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY (FKA WARNERMEDIA AND WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.) $95

2024-09-03 SCREENING at WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY $95 · lobbyist employer report

California Environmental Voters $64.76

2024-01-17 Meal at Frank Fat's $17.25 · lobbyist employer report
2024-01-17 Meal for Staff Member at Frank Fat's $17.25 · lobbyist employer report
2024-02-21 Meal at Frank Fat's $30.26 · 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 $132,114 paid at their request since 2024: 1 source ($71,114) is a registered lobbyist employer

Payments made at their request (Form 803) from sources that also appear in Cal-Access: Olson Remcho, LLP ($71,114 to Amicus Brief in State Public Defender v. Bonta; 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).

Olson Remcho, LLP paid $71,114 to Amicus Brief in State Public Defender v. Bonta · 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 Travel payments · the statement

Lists $15,693.56 in travel paid by others (3 payments)

Largest: Vietnam ($13,906.61, CA Foundation on the Environment and the Economy), Anaheim, CA ($1,031.04, CA Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation), Anaheim, CA ($755.91, CA Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation). 3 of 3 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: CA Foundation on the Environment and the Economy $13,907 p.7 Travel: CA Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation $1,031 p.7 Travel: CA Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation $756 p.7

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

Context Amendments · the statement

Amends an earlier statement

This is an amendment. The original stays on file; what changed is in the amendment itself.

What to check

Compare with the original statement for the same year.

Rule: An amended statement

How this rule works

Behested payments

What Maria Elena Durazo reported others paying at their request (FPPC Form 803) since 2024: $132,114 in 16 payments to 15 recipients. Officials report a source that pays $5,000 or more in a year; there is no limit.

Largest recipients: Amicus Brief in State Public Defender v. Bonta $71,114 · Denise Renee Guzman Naranjo $6,500 · Alejandro Lujan-Gramajo $6,500 · Abe Blancas $5,000 · Viviana Gonzalez $5,000

Paid by	To, for	Amount
Olson Remcho, LLP Oakland · registered lobbyist employer · campaign donor	Amicus Brief in State Public Defender v. Bonta · Amicus brief in Office of the State Public Defender v. Bonta (Case No. S284496) Governmental · 2024-03-22	$39,056
Olson Remcho, LLP Oakland · registered lobbyist employer · campaign donor	Amicus Brief in State Public Defender v. Bonta · Amicus brief in Office of the State Public Defender v. Bonta (Case No. S284496) Governmental · 2024-04-30	$32,058
California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation Los Angeles	Denise Renee Guzman Naranjo · Academic Scholarship Charitable · 2024-07-23	$6,500
California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation Los Angeles	Alejandro Lujan-Gramajo · Academic Scholarship Charitable · 2024-07-23	$6,500
California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation Long Beach	Abe Blancas · Academic Scholarship Charitable · 2025-07-15	$5,000
California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation Long Beach	Viviana Gonzalez · Academic Scholarship Charitable · 2025-07-15	$5,000
Women in California Leadership Sacramento	Hollywood Beautification Team · Donation to a 501c3 Charitable · 2025-07-08	$5,000
California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation Long Beach	Mateo Pedro · Academic Scholarship Charitable · 2026-07-22	$5,000
California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation Long Beach	Marisol Avalos · Academic Scholarship Charitable · 2026-07-22	$5,000
Niagara Bottling, LLC, Niagara Cares Program Diamond Bar	El Centro Del Pueblo · 2026 Senate District Holiday Events Charitable · 2026-08-20	$5,000
Women in California Leadership Sacramento	Kate Morales · Minerva Scholarship Charitable · 2024-07-29	$3,000
Women in California Leadership Sacramento	Valeria Garcia Gutierrez · Minerva Scholarship Charitable · 2024-07-29	$3,000
Women in California Leadership Sacramento	Eunice Choi · Minerva Scholarship Charitable · 2025-08-04	$3,000
Women in California Leadership Sacramento	Tiffany Benitez · Minerva Scholarship Charitable · 2025-08-04	$3,000
Women in California Leadership Sacramento	Marlene Castillo-Ramirez · Minerva Scholarship recipient. Charitable · 2026-08-04	$3,000
Women in California Leadership Sacramento	Karen Linares Quintos · 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 Maria Elena Durazo since 2024: $1,242 across 12 items from 6 sources. Each amount is their share as the report gives it. Matched by name and office.

Reported by	What, when	To them
EQUALITY CALIFORNIA $845 in all	FOOD / BEVERAGES at ACE OF SPADES · 2026-03-09 · report	$239.18
	FOOD / BEVERAGES at GOLDEN 1 CENTER · 2025-03-03 · report	$62.68
	FOOD / BEVERAGES at FAIRMONT CENTURY PLAZA · 2024-10-05 · report	$542.72
California Environmental Voters $109 in all	Meal at Frank Fat's · 2026-02-18 · report	$22.27
	Staffer Meal at Frank Fat's · 2026-02-18 · report	$22.27
	Meal at Frank Fat's · 2024-02-21 · report	$30.26
	Meal at Frank Fat's · 2024-01-17 · report	$17.25
	Meal for Staff Member at Frank Fat's · 2024-01-17 · report	$17.25
PARAMOUNT PICTURES/PARAMOUNT GLOBAL $99 in all	LUNCH at PARAMOUNT STUDIOS · 2024-07-31 · report	$99
WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY (FKA WARNERMEDIA AND WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.) $95 in all	SCREENING at WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY · 2024-09-03 · report	$95
MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC. $71 in all	FOOD / BEVERAGES at P.F. CHANG'S CHINA BISTRO · 2026-01-09 · report	$71.12
SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT $23 in all	FOOD / BEVERAGES at SONY PICTURES STUDIOS · 2025-12-19 · report	$23

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