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Luz M. Rivas

DemocratLuz M. Rivas

U.S. Representative · California

California's 29th district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from California

0 tracked promises

California · California's 29th district

California's 29th district

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How they won their seat

Luz Maria Rivas won the 2024 U.S. House election in California (District 29) with 69.8% of the vote (146,312 votes).

69.8%
Win share
146,312
Votes for winner
209,686
Total cast
  • Luz Maria Rivas · Democrat69.8%
  • Benito Benny Bernal · Republican30.2%

Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.

Inferred legislative agendas

Luz M. Rivas has sponsored a range of bills related to technology, environmental issues, and mental health, such as the 'Department of Advanced Technology and Artificial Intelligence Act' and the 'Environmental Justice Screening Tool Act of 2025'. Her committee memberships align with these themes, particularly in science and natural resources, suggesting a focus on technology and environmental justice. Additionally, her voting record shows voting patterns that align with party lines, with limited instances of divergence. Focus areas (from the record): Technology · Environmental Justice · Mental Health · STEM Education · Manufacturing Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against her sponsored bills and voting record, making it impossible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on the politician's motives or intentions; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess alignment with constituents' views. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Luz M. Rivas has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.

Activity in office

What Luz M. Rivas has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.

Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
016324864VotesSep '25: 15 YeaSep '25: 49 NaySep '25Nov '25: 7 YeaNov '25: 16 NayNov '25Dec '25: 24 YeaDec '25: 33 NayDec '25Jan '26: 24 YeaJan '26: 23 NayJan '26Feb '26: 13 YeaFeb '26: 17 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 11 YeaMar '26: 19 NayMar '26Apr '26: 22 YeaApr '26: 25 NayApr '26May '26: 19 YeaMay '26: 17 NayMay '26Jun '26: 25 YeaJun '26: 16 NayJun '26Jul '26: 15 YeaJul '26: 32 NayJul '26Aug '26: 2 YeaAug '26: 0 NayAug '26Sep '26: 3 YeaSep '26: 7 NaySep '26Sep '25: 64 totalNov '25: 23 totalDec '25: 57 totalJan '26: 47 totalFeb '26: 30 totalMar '26: 30 totalApr '26: 47 totalMay '26: 36 totalJun '26: 42 totalJul '26: 50 totalAug '26: 2 totalSep '26: 10 total
Measures voted on:492 passed162 failed1 procedural/other

Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.

Vote attendance

98.9%
attendance
648 of 655 roll calls7 missed
Monthly participation rate
0255075100100%Sep 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Aug 26Sep 26

Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

13bills sponsored
13 pending
035810Bills2025: 8 pending820252026: 5 pending52026

Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.

Independence

2%
Votes against own party
12 of 648 recent votes

How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.

Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 13 sponsored bills became law
13 pending

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$1.6M
Raised, 20242026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$250K$500K$750K$1M2024: raised $947K2024: spent $683K20242026: raised $671K2026: spent $557K20262024: cash on hand $02026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $13K (2%)Large individual (itemized): $299K (45%)45%PAC / committee: $357K (53%)53%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$13K2%
  • Large individual (itemized)$299K45%
  • PAC / committee$357K53%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Verified record

13 sponsored bills · finance on file

Facts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.

Campaign financeas of May 13, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $591,478, spent $491,886, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Voting record

Total votes
655
Yea
271
Nay
377
Present
0
Not voting
7

Full voting record

655 votes
  • S32Yea
  • S307Yea
120 of 655
Page 1 / 33

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Positions on record

1 position on record

The record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.

  • Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyStated position

    On record asserting that the government ordinarily must obtain a judicial warrant to compel cell phone location data, and urging the DHS Inspector General to open a second investigation into ICE and other DHS components purchasing Americans' location data from commercial data brokers without one.

    SourcesBicameral letter to DHS Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari requesting a second investigation of warrantless purchases of Americans' cell phone location data by ICE and other DHS components
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Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

Disclosure

A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.

No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.

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