Bill Commons

CA SJR 18

passed one chamber

Relative to campaign finance reform.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

This measure would memorialize the Legislature's strong disagreement with the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and encourage states to adopt policies to limit the powers of corporations to contribute to political campaigns, consistent with the United States Constitution.

Introduced
2026-05-14
Status date
—
Latest action
2026-07-01 — From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (July 1).
Bill type
joint resolution
Last updated
—

Subjects

Sponsors

Sponsor data is temporarily unavailable.

The Bill Commons API could not be reached. Please try again shortly.

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-05-14

    Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.

    introduction,referral-committee

  2. 2026-05-27

    Re-referred to Coms. on E. & C.A. and JUD.

    referral-committee

  3. 2026-06-02

    Set for hearing June 9 in JUD. pending receipt.

  4. 2026-06-02

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A.

    amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee

  5. 2026-06-09

    From committee: Be adopted and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

    amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,passage,referral-committee

  6. 2026-06-10

    From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (June 9).

    amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,passage,reading-1,reading-3

  7. 2026-06-11

    Read. Adopted. (Ayes 28. Noes 8.) Ordered to the Assembly.

    amendment-passage,passage,reading-1

  8. 2026-06-11

    In Assembly. Held at Desk.

  9. 2026-06-15

    Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.

    referral-committee

  10. 2026-07-01

    From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (July 1).

    amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,passage,reading-1,reading-3

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Be adopted, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]

    2026-06-09 · pass · 4-0

    Member-level votes (5)
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Choi: other

  • Be adopted. Ordered to third reading

    2026-06-09 · pass · 10-2

    Member-level votes (13)
    • Wahab: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Valladares: no
    • Niello: no
    • Stern: other

  • 3rd Reading SJR18 McNerney et al.

    2026-06-11 · pass · 28-8

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Ashby: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Grove: no
    • Jones: no
    • Choi: no
    • Seyarto: no
    • Ochoa Bogh: no
    • Niello: no
    • Valladares: no
    • Dahle: no
    • Strickland: other
    • Gonzalez: other
    • Pérez: other
    • Alvarado-Gil: other

  • Be adopted. To third reading.

    2026-07-01 · pass · 6-2

    Member-level votes (8)
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Ellis: no
    • Johnson: no

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SJR18

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T01:34:27.960412Z

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=CA&identifier=SJR 18. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.