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Jacqui Irwin

Democrat, State Assembly
District 42, Thousand Oaks
Time in office:
  • Assembly: 2014-present

Bio

Jacqui Irwin, 61, is a former mayor, engineer and Academic All American swimmer at UC San Diego. She was elected to the Assembly in 2014 after serving as a city councilmember and mayor of Thousand Oaks. Irwin was a systems engineer at Teledyne Systems and at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Lab. In the Assembly, she advocated for stronger gun control after a mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, and she was a key figure in debates over privacy related to technology companies, one of which, Ring, employed her husband. She and her husband have three children.

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Ideology

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Moderate

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Bill Activity

0

Of 10 bills:
 Passed
 Failed
10 Pending

For this session year, this legislator initiated 10 bills: None passed, None failed, and 10 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

$18.7K

Communications & Electronics

$21.0K

Construction

$8.0K

Energy & Natural Resources

$30.1K

Finance, Insurance & Real Estate

$90.2K

General Business

$49.3K

Government Agencies/Education/Other

$37.9K

Health

$87.3K

Ideology/Single Issue

$16.5K

Labor

$142.2K

Lawyers & Lobbyists

$6.0K

Party

$1.3K

Transportation

$18.0K

Uncoded

$156.8K

Unitemized Contributions

$351.8

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
$683.4K

10.0% lower 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
$315.0

Grand Total for Elections

$683.7K

10.0% lower 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
Women in California Leadership$172.89Jun 29, 2021dinner
Low for Assembly 2022$117.65Jun 16, 2021dinner
CA Democratic Party$60.99Aug 24, 2021lunch
CA Democratic Party$56.93May 4, 2021lunch
Re-Elect Senator Atkins 2020$54.5Jun 29, 2021dinner
Gipson for Assembly 2022$48.41Apr 26, 2021dinner
California Rice Commission$29Aug 24, 2021rice box
American Pistachio Growers$25Apr 2, 2021Pistachios & mascot
Rendon for Assembly 2020$24.64Jan 28, 2021photo book
CA Manufacturers & Technology Association$20Jun 22, 2021beverages
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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
#39/120

This legislator is ranked 39th highest for the amount of personal gifts received.

Committees

Most of the policy work in the state Capitol is done in “Standing” committees. Legislators also work on budget subcommittees. There are also “Special” and “Select” committees with a more narrow topic focus. And there are “Joint” committees with members from the Senate and Assembly.

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 29, 2024

AB 1575

Public postsecondary education: students codes of conduct: advisers.

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Aug 28, 2024

AB 2697

Transportation electrification: electric vehicle charging stations: network roaming standards.

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Aug 28, 2024

AB 2426

Consumer protection: false advertising: digital goods.

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Aug 28, 2024

AB 660

Food and beverage products: labeling: quality dates, safety dates, and sell-by dates.

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Aug 27, 2024

AB 2013

Generative artificial intelligence: training data transparency.

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Aug 27, 2024

AB 1316

Emergency services: psychiatric emergency medical conditions.

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Aug 26, 2024

AB 2723

The California Cradle-to-Career Data System Act.

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Aug 12, 2024

AB 1779

Theft: jurisdiction.

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Jul 2, 2024

AB 3256

Memorandum and balancing accounts: audits: reports to the Legislature.

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Jul 2, 2024

AB 2723

The California Cradle-to-Career Data System Act.

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Jul 1, 2024

AJR 10

Food date labeling.

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Jun 25, 2024

AB 2013

Generative artificial intelligence: training data transparency.

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District

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District 42 is a Safe Democratic District
Democratic Party candidate has a very high likelihood of winning in an election

Previous Election:

Jacqui Irwin
54.3%
WON
Ted Nordblum
45.7%

Party Registration

Census Data

Median age010203040

Median age