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Laphonza R. Butler

Laphonza R. Butler

D CA · Senate

2023–2024 Senate

Policy Effects

Estimated effects on people, organizations, and industries in bills this legislator sponsored, cosponsored, or voted on. Includes bills they voted against.

These are assessments of legislative text, not measurements of realized outcomes or the legislator’s intent.

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Potential benefits are effects assessed as favorable to the named group. Potential burdens impose costs, restrictions, risks, or lost opportunities on that group.

Mixed effects contain countervailing effects on the same group. Unclear effects have an undetermined direction. A group can have separate benefits and burdens; these are counted separately.

Counts describe the number of identified effects, not their size or public value. Bill and clause counts are distinct within each view. Shared evidence may appear under several groups or policy areas, so their counts should not be added together.

Historical bill versions are included. Clauses analyzed in different versions count separately. A bill’s current status does not establish that every analyzed provision was enacted.

Only direct effects with high or medium confidence in the policy-area assignment are included. Bills are connected through sponsorship, cosponsorship, or Yea/Nay votes; a vote against a bill does not reverse its assessed effects. Vote dates filter recorded votes and vote-linked bills; sponsorship remains included.

Sponsored & Cosponsored Bills

sres597-118

Cosponsor

Recognizing the heritage, culture, and contributions of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian women in the United States.

1 clause

s5165-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To prohibit the intimidation of election officials and election workers.

2 clauses Sep 25, 2024

s4897-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the exclusion for certain conservation subsidies to include subsidies for water conservation or efficiency measures, storm water management measures, and wastewater management measures.

2 clauses Jul 31, 2024

s4189-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To establish youth advisory councils for the purpose of providing recommendations to the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of the Interior, Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Commerce with respect to environmental issues as those issues relate to youth communities, and for other purposes.

3 clauses Apr 18, 2024

s4132-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To establish the Chuckwalla National Monument and expand Joshua Tree National Park in the State of California, and for other purposes.

7 clauses Apr 16, 2024

s4068-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a business tax credit for the purchase of zero-emission electric lawn, garden, and landscape equipment, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Mar 22, 2024

sres518-118

Cosponsor In Committee

Expressing solidarity with the people of Guatemala and urging the Government of Guatemala to permit a peaceful transfer of power to President-elect Bernardo Arévalo.

1 clause Jan 10, 2024

s1776-118

Cosponsor Reported

To provide for the protection of and investment in certain Federal land in the State of California, and for other purposes.

67 clauses May 31, 2023
Travel And Tourism Environment Construction Government

s1097-118

Cosponsor Reported

To establish the César E. Chávez and the Farmworker Movement National Historical Park in the States of California and Arizona, and for other purposes.

9 clauses Mar 30, 2023
Government Tourism And Hospitality Nonprofits Real Estate

s373-118

Cosponsor Reported

To modify the disposition of certain outer Continental Shelf revenues and to open Federal financial sharing to heighten opportunities for renewable energy, and for other purposes.

5 clauses Feb 9, 2023
Education Nonprofits Government Renewable Energy

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