Skip to content

John Laird

State senate

A
District

SD-17

Party

democrat

Score
95
Contact

Votes

Type Year Categories Name Description Vote
floor_votes 2023
  • criminal-justice

SB94

Recall and resentencing: special circumstances.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • environmental-protection

SB252

Public retirement systems: fossil fuels: divestment.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • workers-rights

SB399

Employer communications: intimidation.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • criminal-justice
  • racial-justice

SB50

Vehicles: enforcement.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • gun-violence-prevention

AB28

Firearms and ammunition: excise tax.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • economic-justice
  • health

AB616

Medical Group Financial Transparency Act.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • economic-justice
  • housing

AB12

Tenancy: security deposits.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • workers-rights

AB504

State and local public employees: labor relations: strikes.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • workers-rights

AB524

Discrimination: family caregiver status.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • environmental-justice
  • environmental-protection

AB1167

Oil and gas: acquisition: bonding requirements.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • workers-rights

AB1484

Temporary public employees.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • education

AB1604

Charter schools: school facilities: Charter School Facility Grant Program: conduit financing.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • workers-rights

AB1699

K–14 classified employees: part-time or full-time vacancies: public postings.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • criminal-justice

AB280

Segregated confinement.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • health
  • workers-rights

SB616

Sick days: paid sick days accrual and use.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • economic-justice
  • housing

AB309

The Social Housing Act.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • workers-rights

AB647

Grocery workers.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • economic-justice
  • housing

SB567

Termination of tenancy: no-fault just causes: gross rental rate increases.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • workers-rights

SB686

Domestic workers: occupational safety.

Support
floor_votes 2023
  • health

SB779

Primary Care Clinic Data Modernization Act.

No Vote
floor_votes 2022
  • environmental-protection

SB260

Increases climate accountability by requiring corporations to annually report and verify their greenhouse gas emissions

Support
floor_votes 2022
  • lgbtq-rights

SB923

Improves access to gender affirming healthcare by requiring insurance companies to undergo cultural competency training and provide a list of affirming in-network providers, establishing state-wide enforcible quality standards for care, and providing data and oversight for complaints about care quality

Support
floor_votes 2022
  • environmental-protection

SB1173

Requires the public pension systems, CalPERS and CalSTRS, to divest of fossil fuels by 2030

Support
floor_votes 2022
  • health
  • reproductive-choice

SB1375

Expands abortion access by allowing Nurse Practitioners and Certified Nurse Midwifes to perform the procedure without a doctor's supervision after they've completed 4,600 transition-to-practice (TTP) hours

Support
floor_votes 2022
  • health

SB57

Allows Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland to provide overdose prevention programs, including safe injection sites with sterile consumption supplies, trained staff, and treatment resources

Support
floor_votes 2022
  • criminal-justice
  • racial-justice

SB731

Expands educational and work opportunities by sealing the arrest and conviction records of any person who has completed their sentence and had four years without justice involvement, with the exception of sex offenders

Support
floor_votes 2022
  • criminal-justice

AB2167

Requires that courts consider alternatives to incarceration in criminal sentencing, including collaborative justice, restorative justice, and diversion programs

Support
floor_votes 2022
  • criminal-justice

AB960

Expands the type of conditions that would qualify an incarcerated person for compassionate release and mandates that any inmate who is medically incapacitated be reviewed for release without individual recommendation from the Department of Corrections

Support
floor_votes 2022
  • workers-rights

AB2183

Expands the existing in-person secret ballot process by which farmworkers can unionize to include new procedures for mail ballots, authorization cards, and petition signatures

Support
floor_votes 2022
  • criminal-justice
  • racial-justice

AB256

Expands the Racial Justice Act to allow individuals convicted before January 1, 2021, to petition the court on instances of racial bias in their cases

Support
floor_votes 2022
  • workers-rights

AB257

Establishes a statewide, 10-member Fast Food Council through 2029 to determine minimum wages, working hours, and health and safety standards across the sector

Support
floor_votes 2022
  • voting-rights

AB759

Transitions District Attorney and County Sheriff elections to presidential primary years instead of gubernatorial primary years by providing the 2022 electeds with a one off 6-year term

Support
floor_votes 2022
  • voting-rights

AB1416

Creates greater political transparency by adding the names of organizations, businesses, and individuals supporting or opposing a ballot measure directly to the ballot label so that voters can see the information as they vote

Support
floor_votes 2022
  • criminal-justice

AB2632

Mandates that all prisons or similar facilities create and follow written standards for segregated confinement, including protections for disabled individuals, people under the age of 26, and people over the age of 59

Support
floor_votes 2022
  • criminal-justice

AB503

Minimizes the duration of a court issued probationary period for a minor to no more than 6-month increments

Support
floor_votes 2022
  • voting-rights

AB759

Transitions District Attorney and County Sheriff elections to presidential primary years instead of gubernatorial primary years by providing the 2022 electeds with a one off 6-year term

Support
floor_votes 2022
  • criminal-justice
  • immigration

AB937

Repeals the requirement that the Department of Corrections identify undocumented inmates subject to deportation, prohibits state or local agencies from conducting or facilitating immigration arrests, and disallows courts from considering immigration status in probation, rehabilitation or other diversion program placement decisions

Support
floor_votes 2022
  • environmental-protection

SB1137

Prohibits establishing new oil and gas wells, or updating existing wells, within 3,200 feet of homes, schools, nursing homes, or hospitals

Support
floor_votes 2022
  • housing

SB679

Addresses homelessness and the low income housing crisis by creating the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency to centralize efforts to increase funding, preservation, development, and updated zoning across the region

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • health
  • workers-rights

SB95

Extends supplemental paid sick leave for certain essential workers.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • economic-justice
  • workers-rights

SB93

Requires certain employers to rehire eligible employees who were laid off due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • economic-justice

SB447

Allows courts to award damages for a deceased person’s non-economic damages of pain, suffering, or disfigurement to the deceased person’s estate.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • health

SB410

Increases health and safety protections by exempting certain OSHA requirements from cumbersome regulatory review.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • criminal-justice
  • gun-violence-prevention
  • racial-justice

SB2

Prohibits someone convicted of certain felonies from regaining peace officer employment based on a court vacating, withdrawing or expunging the conviction, unless the court finds them innocent of the crime.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • environmental-protection

SB47

Significantly raises the amount of money state oil regulators can spend to clean up old, leaky wells.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • criminal-justice
  • racial-justice

SB483

Provides resentencing hearings for anyone currently serving a sentence made up of certain (now eliminated) sentencing enhancements.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • health
  • workers-rights

SB213

Broadens the range of injuries for which certain hospital workers are presumed entitled to claim Workers Compensation damages to include COVID-19, PTSD, and certain other diseases.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • racial-justice
  • voting-rights
  • workers-rights

AB616

Enfranchises farmworkers by giving them more ways to vote in union elections.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • criminal-justice
  • gun-violence-prevention
  • racial-justice

AB26

Ensures all law enforcement agencies require officers present during an excessive use-of-force incident to intervene and report the offending officer.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • housing

AB838

Requires a city or county that receives a complaint of a substandard building or a lead hazard violation to inspect the building and document the violations.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • education

AB1550

Protects bargaining rights by allowing faculty to remain eligible for union representation if their positions are hierarchically reorganized.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • education
  • workers-rights

AB438

Guarantees permanent school employees and certificated employees the same rights in regard to layoffs.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • workers-rights

AB701

Requires specified employers to provide distribution center employees with written performance quotas and adverse employment action that will result from failure to meet them.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • political-accountability

AB339

Requires city councils and county boards of supervisors of cities of a certain size to expand digital access for public meetings.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • criminal-justice
  • gun-violence-prevention
  • racial-justice

AB481

Requires law enforcement agencies to receive approval from their governing bodies before acquiring military equipment.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • criminal-justice
  • racial-justice

SB81

Provides guidelines to judges on the use of sentence enhancements, which have been disproportionately applied to people of color and those suffering from mental illness.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • environmental-protection

AB1395

Codifies California’s goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2045.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • criminal-justice
  • workers-rights

SB357

Repeals “loitering for purpose of prostitution” law, which results in profiling and harassment of sex workers.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • criminal-justice
  • racial-justice

SB483

Provides resentencing hearings for anyone currently serving a sentence made up of certain (now eliminated) sentencing enhancements.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • economic-justice
  • workers-rights

SB62

Requires an hourly minimum wage for garment workers by banning piece rate pay.

Support
floor_votes 2021
  • criminal-justice
  • racial-justice

SB73

Stops mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent offenders of drug crimes, and replaces with paths to rehabilitation, probation and treatment.

Support

Corporate Money

Type Amount
Real Estate $45,500
Oil & Gas $24,111
Cops $83,949
Health Insurance $8,500

2023 Score Card Grades from Partners

Partner Score
ACLU
94
Equality CA
100
Health Access
100
Planned Parenthood
100
Sierra Club
88
United Domestic Workers
100
United Food & Commercial Workers Western States Council
100
NARAL
93
California Food and Farming Network
100
Dream Alliance
100
CA Environmental Justice Alliance
96
California Environmental Voters
98

Contact John Laird

    NOTE: Although you may be disappointed with your representative, please be respectful. Use this opportunity to offer constructive feedback. Please abstain from negative, disparaging language, including, but not limited to: expletives, comments about race, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity or religion, and anything specific to appearance.