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Cecilia Aguiar-Curry

Democrat, State Assembly
District 4, Davis
Time in office:
  • Assembly: 2016-present

News coverage of Cecilia Aguiar-Curry

Bio

Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, 70, is the Assembly Majority Leader. She has degrees in business administration and accounting from San Jose State. She was the first woman mayor of Winters. In state office, she has championed bills protecting victims of domestic violence and sexual harassment, and she’s spearheaded efforts to reduce the severity of wildfires. A friend of labor interests, she authored union-supported legislation to pay prevailing wage to workers on forest-thinning projects and another that would have restricted automated, driverless vehicles in the trucking industry. Curry has two adult daughters and a stepson with her longtime partner.

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Ideology

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Moderate

Right

Bill Activity

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Of 13 bills:
 Passed
 Failed
13 Pending

For this session year, this legislator initiated 13 bills: None passed, None failed, and 13 are currently pending.

Alignment Meter

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Financials

This feature tracks three sources of money intended to help a candidate win election: 1-Money given directly to a candidate’s committee, 2-Money given to an Independent Expenditure Committee, 3-Money given to a political party. (NOTE: Senators are elected every four years. Twenty of the 40 Senators are on the ballot in even-numbered years, so Senators may do little or no fundraising in the first two-year session of their Senate term).

Election

This display shows money given directly to the incumbent’s campaign committee (NOTE: The industry categories for donors come from Open Secrets, a nonpartisan research organization for campaign finance. Some contributions are “uncoded,” meaning they have not been assigned to an industry sector. As a result, the total for each sector is also an estimate).

Agriculture

$25.8K

Communications & Electronics

$45.0K

Construction

$25.5K

Energy & Natural Resources

$30.5K

Finance, Insurance & Real Estate

$81.9K

General Business

$103.5K

Government Agencies/Education/Other

$65.5K

Health

$142.9K

Ideology/Single Issue

$25.0K

Labor

$197.0K

Lawyers & Lobbyists

$8.5K

Party

$400.0

Transportation

$32.5K

Uncoded

$181.3K

Unitemized Contributions

$2.4K

Candidate Donations

Individuals, corporations, organizations and committees are limited to a maximum donation to candidates of $5,500 for the primary and for the general elections.

Total
$967.7K

28.0% higher than the average legislators

Independent Expenditures

Money from Independent Expenditure Committees (IEC) for advertising or grassroots activity to help a candidate win office is unlimited, but it cannot be spent in coordination with the candidate or the candidate's campaign.

Total
$6.8K

Grand Total for Elections

$974.5K

29.0% higher than the average legislators

This is a total of the money to help this legislator win office including direct donations to the candidate, money from Independent Expenditure Committees and money from political parties.


Influence

There are three categories of donations to legislators after they are elected that encourage a working relationship between the donor and the legislator. The three categories are: 1-Gifts, 2-Travel, 3-Behests.

Giver
Value
Date
Description
Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation$189.9May 6, 2021Dessert Box, entertainment and Dinner
Women in California Leadership$172.89Jun 22, 2021dinner
Evan Low for Assembly 2022$117.65Jun 16, 2021Dinner
California Issues Forum$83Jun 21, 2021Dinner
Re-Elect Senator Atkins 2020$72.49Sep 11, 2021Champagne
California Democratic Party$60.99Aug 24, 2021Lunch
California Democratic Party$56.93May 4, 2021Lunch
Re-Elect Senator Atkins 2020$54.5Jun 29, 2021Dinner
California Issues Forum$50.11Jun 16, 2021Lunch
Re-Elect Senator Atkins 2020$45Mar 3, 2021Champagne
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Personal Gifts

Legislators are not allowed to accept gifts of more than $10 per month from registered lobbyists. Gifts from any other single source are limited to $590 in a calendar year.

Gift Received Rating
#28/120

This legislator is ranked 28th highest for the amount of personal gifts received.

Hearings

Featured Comments

Below are links to the video and transcript of recent, substantive comments by this legislator in committee hearings or floor sessions.

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Aug 31, 2024

AB 98

Planning and zoning: logistics use: truck routes.

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Aug 31, 2024

AB 863

Carpet recycling: producer responsibility organizations: fines: succession: training.

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Aug 31, 2024

AB 2703

Federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics: psychological associates.

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Aug 30, 2024

AB 457

Beverage containers: recycling: redemption payment and refund value: annual redemption and processing fee payments.

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Aug 29, 2024

AB 2286

Vehicles: autonomous vehicles.

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Aug 29, 2024

AB 2237

Children and youth: transfer of specialty mental health services.

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Aug 28, 2024

AB 2680

Alzheimer’s disease.

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Aug 28, 2024

AB 2339

Medi-Cal: telehealth.

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Aug 27, 2024

AB 2606

California Agave Commission.

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Aug 26, 2024

AB 2174

Alcoholic beverages: beer caterer’s permit.

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Jul 3, 2024

AB 2813

Government Investment Act.

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Jul 3, 2024

AB 2223

Cannabis: industrial hemp.

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District

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District 4 is a Safe Democratic District
Democratic Party candidate has a very high likelihood of winning in an election

Previous Election:

Cecilia M. Aguiar-Curry
66.5%
WON
Darren T. Ellis
33.5%

Party Registration

Census Data

Median age0102030

Median age