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Don Perata's Voting Records

See Don Perata's Key Votes

Vote Smart provides easy access to congressional and state voting records and maintains a collection of key votes grouped by issue. Vote Smart uses the following criteria to select key votes:

  1. The vote should be helpful in portraying how a member stands on a particular issue
  2. The vote should be clear for any person to understand
  3. The vote has received media attention
  4. The vote was passed or defeated by a very close margin
  5. Occasionally, if a specific bill is consistently inquired about on the Voter's Research Hotline, the vote will be added

Vote Smart provides a summary of the version of the bill text associated with each selected key vote. Our summaries are written by Vote Smart's staff and interns, who adhere to our strict policies and procedures in order to guarantee absolute impartiality and accuracy. They do not necessarily reflect the content of the final version of the bill, but rather the version voted on in that stage. While many procedural votes take place before a full chamber vote, our voting stages reflect the final reading of each chamber vote. Each key vote selection is reviewed by the project's community of advisors, who are political scientists and journalists from all fifty states.

For more information about the legislative process, see here.

Selected Sponsorships
Bill No. SB 1713
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 02/22/2008
Bill No. SB 1407
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 02/21/2008
Bill No. SB 1301
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 02/20/2008
Bill No. SB 1137
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 01/31/2008
Bill No. SB 924
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 06/06/2007
Bill No. SCA 12
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 05/21/2007
Bill No. SB 606
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 04/22/2007
Bill No. SB 840
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 02/26/2007
Bill No. AB 1471
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - House
Date 02/23/2007
Bill No. SB 823
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 02/23/2007
Bill No. SB 926
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 02/23/2007
Bill No. AB 583
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - House
Date 02/21/2007
Bill No. SB 180
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 02/05/2007
Bill No. AB 43
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - House
Date 12/04/2006
Bill No. AB 8
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - House
Date 12/04/2006
Bill No. SB 1689
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 02/24/2006
Bill No. SB 1379
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 02/21/2006
Bill No. SB 1266
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 02/09/2006
Bill No. SB 1162
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 01/10/2006
Bill No. AB 813
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - House
Date 02/18/2005
Bill No. AB 127
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - House
Date 01/13/2005
Bill No. AB 134
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - House
Date 01/13/2005
Bill No. AB 140
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - House
Date 01/13/2005
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