Outgoing Senator

Richard D. Roth (D)

2024 Score 70%
Richard D. Roth has accepted oil money. Accepted oil money
District: SD-31 (Riverside)
https://sd31.senate.ca.gov/

As of December 2024, this legislator is no longer in office.

The district will now be represented by:

Sabrina Cervantes

Party: Democrat

District: AD-58

Website

Sabrina Cervantes is a current Assemblymember and has a lifetime environmental score of 66%.

72%
Lifetime Score
70%
2024
50%
2023
56%
2022
51%
2021
99%
2020
95%
2019
88%
2018
67%
2017
56%
2016
69%
2015
71%
2014
94%
2013

How We Calculated the Weighted Score

100% environmental votes/authorship

Extra Credit (if applicable):

+1%
or -1%
for being a main author or principal coauthor of a Scorecard bill
-5%
for accepting oil money this election cycle
+2%
for being a main author of the Climate Bond (SB 867)
-2%
for being an author on an anti-environmental bill (SB 1420)

Richard D. Roth's 2024 Environmental Votes

Bill Vote
AB 1866 (Idle Oil Well Cleanup) Top Priority Bill
Vote on AB 1866 – Senate Floor Vote - 8/28/24 Yes
AB 1963 (Paraquat Dichloride Prohibition)
Vote on AB 1963 – Senate Floor Vote - 8/28/24 Yes
AB 2513 (Gas Stoves Warning Labels)
Vote on AB 2513 – Senate Floor Vote - 8/20/24 Abstain
Vote on AB 2513 – Senate Floor Vote #2 - 8/30/24 Abstain
AB 2666 (Utilities Rate of Return)
Vote on AB 2666 – Senate Floor Vote - 8/29/24 Yes
AB 2716 (Low-Producing Oil Well Accountability Act) Top Priority Bill
Vote on AB 2716 – Senate Floor Vote - 8/31/24 Yes
AB 2875 (No Net Loss of Wetlands) Top Priority Bill
Vote on AB 2875 – Senate Floor Vote - 8/26/24 Yes
AB 3233 (The Local Environmental Choice and Safety Act) Top Priority Bill
Vote on AB 3233 – Senate Floor Vote - 8/29/24 Abstain
Vote on AB 3233 – Senate Floor Vote #2 - 8/31/24 Abstain
SB 219 (Stopping Delays to Major Climate Corporate Accountability Laws) Top Priority Bill
Vote on SB 219 – Senate Floor Vote - 8/31/24 Yes
SB 615 (Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling) Top Priority Bill
Vote on SB 615 – Senate Floor Vote - 8/31/24 Yes
SB 674 (Refinery Air Pollution Transparency and Reduction Act)
Vote on SB 674 – Senate Floor Vote - 8/8/24 Yes
SB 867 (Climate Bond) Top Priority Bill
Vote on SB 867 – Senate Floor Vote - 7/3/24 Yes
SB 960 (Complete Streets and Transit Priority Policies)
Vote on SB 960 – Senate Floor Vote - 5/22/24 No
Vote on SB 960 – Senate Floor Vote #2 - 8/29/24 Yes
SB 1036 (Cleaning up Voluntary Carbon Offsets)
Vote on SB 1036 – Senate Floor Vote - 5/21/24 Yes
SB 1221 (Affordable Energy Transition and Workforce Protection Act) Top Priority Bill
Vote on SB 1221 – Senate Floor Vote - 5/21/24 Yes
Vote on SB 1221 – Senate Floor Vote #2 - 8/31/24 Yes
SB 1321 (Employment Training Panel)
Vote on SB 1321 – Senate Floor Vote - 5/21/24 Yes
Vote on SB 1321 – Senate Floor Vote #2 - 8/29/24 Yes
SB 1337 (Referendum Funding Transparency)
Vote on SB 1337 – Senate Floor Vote - 5/21/24 Yes
Vote on SB 1337 – Senate Floor Vote #2 - 8/29/24 Yes
SB 1340 (Public Contracting and Living Wage Jobs)
Vote on SB 1340 – Senate Floor Vote - 5/21/24 Yes
Vote on SB 1340 – Senate Floor Vote #2 - 8/30/24 Yes
SB 1420 (Fossil Fuel Hydrogen)
Vote on SB 1420 – Senate Floor Vote #1 - 5/22/24 Yes (anti-environment)
Top Priority Bill designates top priority bill