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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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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

sres823-118

Cosponsor

Recognizing Hispanic Heritage Month and celebrating the heritage and culture of Latinos in the United States and the immense contributions of Latinos to the United States.

1 clause Sep 17, 2024

s5031-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To promote a 21st century artificial intelligence workforce and to authorize the Secretary of Education to carry out a program to increase access to prekindergarten through grade 12 emerging and advanced technology education and upskill workers in the technology of the future.

9 clauses Sep 12, 2024

s5012-118

Cosponsor Reported

To establish an interest-bearing account for the non-Federal contributions to the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Sep 10, 2024

s5001-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To establish the Sáttítla National Monument in the State of California, and for other purposes.

5 clauses Sep 10, 2024

s4902-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To prevent discrimination, including harassment, in employment.

37 clauses Jul 31, 2024

s4899-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To establish a grant program for States that adopt the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act, and for other purposes.

3 clauses Jul 31, 2024

s4811-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To require guidance to improve access to mental health and substance use prevention services for children, adolescents, and young adults.

1 clause Jul 25, 2024

s4812-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To establish a pilot program to address behavioral health needs among children, adolescents, and young adults, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Jul 25, 2024

s4723-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To limit the separation of families at or near ports of entry.

7 clauses Jul 11, 2024

s4595-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To improve the structure of the Federal Pell Grant program, and for other purposes.

7 clauses Jun 20, 2024

s4592-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health, to award grants to faith- or community-based organizations to address persistent health inequities and chronic disease challenges.

2 clauses Jun 18, 2024

s4552-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To enhance the rights of domestic employees, and for other purposes.

30 clauses Jun 13, 2024

s4407-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To effectively staff the high-need public elementary schools and secondary schools of the United States with school-based mental health services providers.

3 clauses May 23, 2024

s4381-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To protect an individual’s ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception.

6 clauses May 21, 2024

s4380-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to promote the matriculation, and increase in the graduation rates, of individuals with disabilities within higher education.

5 clauses May 21, 2024

s4300-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To require the Secretary of Labor to maintain a publicly available list of all employers that relocate a call center or contract call center work overseas, to make such companies ineligible for Federal grants or guaranteed loans, and to require disclosure of the physical location of business agents engaging in customer service communications, and for other purposes.

7 clauses May 9, 2024

s4286-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To provide emergency assistance to States, territories, Tribal nations, and local areas affected by substance use disorder, including the use of opioids and stimulants, and to make financial assistance available to States, territories, Tribal nations, local areas, public or private nonprofit entities, and certain health providers, to provide for the development, organization, coordination, and operation of more effective and cost efficient systems for the delivery of essential services to individuals with substance use disorder and their families.

31 clauses May 8, 2024

s4265-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To amend the Truth in Lending Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to establish language access requirements for creditors and servicers, and for other purposes.

3 clauses May 7, 2024

s4248-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To require the Financial Literacy and Education Commission to carry out a study on the impact of language barriers to financial health, to require the website and toll-free telephone number of the Commission to be provided in the most commonly spoken languages in the United States, and for other purposes.

4 clauses May 2, 2024

s4243-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To award posthumously the Congressional Gold Medal to Shirley Chisholm.

4 clauses May 2, 2024
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