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Steve Padilla

DemocratSteve Padilla

State Senator · California

California District 18

DemocratState

State legislator — California

0 tracked promises

California

California

Represents California statewide

Showing 2025–present term. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.

Stated positions

9 positions on record

What this official says they believe — sourced claims, shown distinctly from tracked promises and from any assessment of what they did. A stated position is never scored and never affects the Integrity Score.

  • Health careStated position

    Work to guarantee quality, affordable, and equitable health care for every American.

    Sourceshttps://www.padilla.senate.gov/about/issues/health-care/
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  • Immigration / VeteransStated position

    Enact legislation to ensure that military veterans are not subject to deportation.

    Sourceshttps://www.padilla.senate.gov/about/issues/immigration/
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  • Public lands / ConservationStated position

    Get his legislation to expand the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (incorporating the Scarper Ridge property) passed and signed into law to protect threatened wildlife and connect public lands and hiking trails.

    Sourceshttps://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senate-unanimously-passes-padilla-bill-to-expand-the-golden-gate-national-recreation-area/
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  • Immigration enforcement / oversightStated position

    Enact the VISIBLE Act (co-introduced with Sen. Cory Booker) to require immigration enforcement officers to display clearly visible identification — their agency and name or badge number — during public-facing enforcement actions.

    Sourceshttps://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-booker-unveil-new-bill-to-require-immigration-officers-to-display-clear-identification/
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  • Wildfire / Public landsStated position

    Pass the bipartisan Fix Our Forests Act to reduce wildfire risk, advance watershed restoration, improve forest health, and protect communities from catastrophic wildfires.

    Sourceshttps://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-western-senators-introduce-bipartisan-fix-our-forests-act-to-combat-wildfires/
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  • Health care / Prescription drug costsStated position

    Make health care more affordable and lower prescription drug costs, including lowering the cost of insulin for millions of Californians (supporting a $35/month insulin cap).

    Sourceshttps://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-joins-american-diabetes-association-to-highlight-efforts-to-lower-insulin-costs-for-californians%EF%BF%BC/
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  • Climate / Children's healthStated position

    Advance the Clean Commute for Kids Act to help school districts transition the nation's diesel school bus fleet to domestically manufactured zero-emission buses and reduce children's exposure to harmful pollution.

    Sourceshttps://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-warnock-cardenas-hayes-introduce-clean-commute-for-kids-act/
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  • Voting rights / DemocracyStated position

    Advance the For the People Act (S.1) to enact national voting-rights and election reforms strengthening election security and boosting voter turnout.

    Sourceshttps://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-joins-colleagues-to-introduce-for-the-people-act-to-strengthen-democracy-put-power-back-in-the-hands-of-the-american-people/
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  • ImmigrationStated position

    Pass the Citizenship for Essential Workers Act — his first bill as a U.S. Senator — to create an expedited pathway to citizenship for the more than 5 million undocumented essential workers who worked on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Sourceshttps://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-announces-pathway-to-citizenship-for-essential-workers-in-first-bill-as-senator/
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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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