Tom Umberg
State senate
Chair of Judiciary Committee

District
SD-34
Party
democrat
Score
Votes
Type | Year | Categories | Name | Description | Vote | |
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floor_votes | 2021 |
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SB91 |
Temporarily extended California’s state-wide eviction protections to all covered tenants until July 1, 2021. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
SB93 |
Requires certain employers to rehire eligible employees who were laid off due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
SB95 |
Extends supplemental paid sick leave for certain essential workers. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
SB73 |
Stops mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent offenders of drug crimes, and replaces with paths to rehabilitation, probation and treatment. |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
SB93 |
Requires certain employers to rehire eligible employees who were laid off due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
SB447 |
Allows courts to award damages for a deceased person’s non-economic damages of pain, suffering, or disfigurement to the deceased person’s estate. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
SB410 |
Increases health and safety protections by exempting certain OSHA requirements from cumbersome regulatory review. |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
SB2 |
Prohibits someone convicted of certain felonies from regaining peace officer employment based on a court vacating, withdrawing or expunging the conviction, unless the court finds them innocent of the crime. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
SB47 |
Significantly raises the amount of money state oil regulators can spend to clean up old, leaky wells. |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
SB483 |
Provides resentencing hearings for anyone currently serving a sentence made up of certain (now eliminated) sentencing enhancements. |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
SB213 |
Broadens the range of injuries for which certain hospital workers are presumed entitled to claim Workers Compensation damages to include COVID-19, PTSD, and certain other diseases. |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
AB616 |
Enfranchises farmworkers by giving them more ways to vote in union elections. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
AB26 |
Ensures all law enforcement agencies require officers present during an excessive use-of-force incident to intervene and report the offending officer. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
AB838 |
Requires a city or county that receives a complaint of a substandard building or a lead hazard violation to inspect the building and document the violations. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
AB1550 |
Protects bargaining rights by allowing faculty to remain eligible for union representation if their positions are hierarchically reorganized. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
AB438 |
Guarantees permanent school employees and certificated employees the same rights in regard to layoffs. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
AB701 |
Requires specified employers to provide distribution center employees with written performance quotas and adverse employment action that will result from failure to meet them. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
AB339 |
Requires city councils and county boards of supervisors of cities of a certain size to expand digital access for public meetings. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
AB481 |
Requires law enforcement agencies to receive approval from their governing bodies before acquiring military equipment. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
SB81 |
Provides guidelines to judges on the use of sentence enhancements, which have been disproportionately applied to people of color and those suffering from mental illness. |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
AB1395 |
Codifies California’s goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2045. |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
SB357 |
Repeals “loitering for purpose of prostitution” law, which results in profiling and harassment of sex workers. |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
SB483 |
Provides resentencing hearings for anyone currently serving a sentence made up of certain (now eliminated) sentencing enhancements. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
SB62 |
Requires an hourly minimum wage for garment workers by banning piece rate pay. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2021 |
|
SB73 |
Stops mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent offenders of drug crimes, and replaces with paths to rehabilitation, probation and treatment. |
Oppose | |
committee_votes | 2020 |
|
SB1190 |
Authorizes tenants to terminate leases without penalty because they or a family member were the victim of a crime. |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2020 |
|
SB956 |
Establishes the California Tax Expenditure Review Board as an independent advisory body. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2020 |
|
SB1399 |
Expands protections for garment industry workers. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2020 |
|
SB977 |
Expands the Attorney General’s ability to prohibit certain transactions by healthcare systems that hurt consumers by limiting competition. |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2020 |
|
SB1383 |
Forces employers to grant employee requests for up to 12 work weeks of unpaid parental leave. |
No Vote | |
committee_votes | 2020 |
|
AB326 |
Allows personally owned motorized carrying devices (for groceries, etc.) to be used on city sidewalks. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2020 |
|
AB2847 |
Strengthens gun laws by enhancing micro-stamping requirements for unsafe guns. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2020 |
|
AB2114 |
Provides a procedure for UC medical employees to challenge termination of employment. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2020 |
|
AB1080 |
Sets goals to reduce waste from single-use packaging and products. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2020 |
|
AB3070 |
Prohibits prosecutors from striking prospective jurors from jury pools on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender and other identities. |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2020 |
|
AB3070 |
Prohibits prosecutors from striking prospective jurors from jury pools on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender and other identities. |
Oppose | |
floor_votes | 2020 |
|
AB890 |
Allows nurse practitioners in California to work without physician supervision. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2020 |
|
SB145 |
Removes remnants of discriminatory anti-sodomy laws from statutory rape punishments. |
Support | |
committee_votes | 2019 |
|
SB72 |
Expands Election Day registration to every voting site |
Support | |
committee_votes | 2019 |
|
SB310 |
Allows formerly incarcerated people to serve on juries |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB343 |
Removes the Kaiser Permanente loophole in state financial disclosure laws |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB227 |
Penalizes hospitals that violate California law regarding nurse-to-patient ratios |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB336 |
Requires automated transit vehicles to maintain a trained employee on board |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB307 |
Overrides federal order to waive state level environmental review of Cadiz Water Project |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB142 |
Requires employers to provide lactation rooms and reasonable break time for lactation needs |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB329 |
Prohibits landlords from rejecting applicants based on Section 8 status |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB621 |
Creates environmental review loopholes and lowers requirements for affordable housing construction |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB25 |
Allows select development projects to skirt environmental review |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB145 |
Removes remnants of discriminatory anti-sodomy laws from statutory rape punishments. |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB529 |
Grants tenants right to organize as part of a tenant association |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB136 |
Repeals sentencing enhancements for those with prior offenses |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB529 |
Grants tenants right to organize as part of a tenant association |
Oppose | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB616 |
Forces debt collectors to leave final $1,724 in a bank account |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB29 |
Expands Medi-Cal to all residents, regardless of immigration status |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB551 |
Mandates development of plans for decommissioning, cleanup and remediation of abandoned wells |
Support | |
committee_votes | 2019 |
|
AB1487 |
Creates Bay Area Housing Finance Authority, to raise and distribute affordable housing funds |
No Vote | |
committee_votes | 2019 |
|
AB1753 |
Requires immigration advisers to be lawyers or federally licensed consultants |
No Vote | |
committee_votes | 2019 |
|
AB1360 |
Strengthens food safety training requirements and mandates employer-provided insurance for delivery drivers |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
AB1353 |
Shortens length of probationary period for unclassified employees from 1 year to 6 months |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
AB749 |
Prohibits "no rehire" provisions that bar victims of mistreatment from employment with offending company |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB227 |
Penalizes hospitals that violate California law regarding nurse-to-patient ratios |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
AB51 |
Prohibits employers from forcing job candidates to waive legal rights in favor of forced arbitration |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
AB731 |
Requires same rate review practice for large-group health insurance plans as smaller ones |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
AB290 |
Prevents dialysis companies from steering patients from medi-cal to boost corporate profits |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
AB965 |
Allows people incarcerated as youth to earn time off their earliest parole date |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
AB1482 |
Caps rent increase at 5% in 12-month period, and forces landlords to present 'just cause' before evicting |
No Vote | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
AB1600 |
Expedites the process to obtain police misconduct records in a criminal trial |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB329 |
Prohibits landlords from rejecting applicants based on Section 8 status |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
AB1215 |
Bans (for 3 yrs) biometric surveillance and facial recognition from use in police body cameras |
Oppose | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
AB1507 |
Grants local districts more leeway in evaluating charter school applications |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
AB857 |
Allows local governments to sponsor public banks |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB268 |
Offers voters more information on potentially progressive taxation measures |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
AB1066 |
Grants unemployment benefits for workers during first 3 weeks of a strike |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
AB68 |
Permits construction of two ADUs on same property |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
AB1487 |
Creates Bay Area Housing Finance Authority, to raise and distribute affordable housing funds |
Oppose | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB136 |
Repeals sentencing enhancements for those with prior offenses |
Oppose | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
ACA14 |
Forces UC system to reduce contracted services in order to increase percent of union workers on their payroll |
Support | |
floor_votes | 2019 |
|
SB1 |
Strengthens California environmental standards to pre-Trump federal levels |
Support |
Corporate Money
Type | Amount | |
---|---|---|
Real Estate | $106,345 | |
Oil & Gas | $35,420 | |
Cops | $58,599 | |
Health Insurance | $5,500 |
2021 Score Card Grades from Partners
Partner | Score |
---|---|
ACLU |
59
|
Equality CA |
89
|
Health Access |
100
|
Planned Parenthood |
100
|
Sierra Club |
50
|
United Domestic Workers |
89
|
United Food & Commercial Workers Western States Council |
100
|
NARAL |
93
|
California Food and Farming Network |
100
|
Dream Alliance |
95
|
CA Environmental Justice Alliance |
78
|
California Environmental Voters |
55
|