Shannon Grove

As Senate Republican leader, called for an investigation of a $35 million Secretary of State voter-outreach contract given to a firm with ties to Joe Biden's campaign.

September 16, 2020Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted against SB 167, which suspended business net operating loss deductions for 2024 through 2026 and capped business tax credits at $5 million a year. It passed the Senate 29-8.

June 13, 2024Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Was endorsed by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association PAC for Board of Equalization District 1.

April 16, 2026

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Voted against AB 1207, which extended California's cap-and-trade carbon market through 2045. It passed the Senate 29-6.

September 13, 2025

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Voted for SB 237, which let Kern County approve up to 2,000 new oil well permits a year for 10 years. It passed the Senate 28-0, and she had pushed for the Kern County plan.

September 13, 2025

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Voted against SB 627, which made it a crime for local, state and federal law enforcement officers to cover their faces on duty, with exceptions. It passed the Senate 28-11.

September 11, 2025

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Voted against ACA 8, which asked voters to let California use congressional maps drawn by the Legislature instead of the citizens commission. It passed the Senate 30-8.

August 21, 2025

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Her bill SB 1063 was signed into law. It added QR codes linking to mental health resources on the back of student ID cards.

September 27, 2024

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Her bill SB 1414 was signed into law. It allowed felony charges for adults who solicit sex from a minor under 16, or from a trafficking victim under 18.

September 26, 2024

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Her bill SB 974 was signed into law. It changed how lithium extraction tax money is shared, sending 20% of each county's revenue outside Imperial County to that county's most affected communities.

September 25, 2024

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Her bill SB 1172 was signed into law. It extended the option to donate to breast cancer research on state income tax forms.

July 15, 2024

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Voted against AB 1955, which bars schools from requiring staff to tell parents about a student's gender identity without the student's consent. It passed the Senate 29-8.

June 13, 2024

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Her bill SB 14, making trafficking of a minor a serious felony under the Three Strikes law, was signed into law. It passed 40-0 and 80-0 after an Assembly committee first rejected it.

September 25, 2023

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Her bill SB 275, requiring Senate confirmation of the state's top oil and gas regulator, passed the Legislature but was vetoed by Gov. Newsom.

July 13, 2023

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Voted against SB 2, which rewrote California's rules for concealed-carry gun permits and listed places where carrying guns is banned. It passed the Senate 29-9.

May 25, 2023

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Her bill SB 1183, written with Senate leader Toni Atkins, was signed into law. It created a statewide program mailing free books each month to children from birth to age 5.

September 30, 2022

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Voted against final passage of SB 107, which shields families and providers from other states' legal actions over gender-affirming care for minors. It passed the Senate 30-9.

August 31, 2022

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Voted against SB 1137, which banned new oil and gas well permits within 3,200 feet of homes, schools and other sensitive sites. It passed the Senate 25-10.

August 31, 2022

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Voted against SCA 10, which put a right to abortion and contraception into the state constitution before voters. It passed the Senate 29-8.

June 20, 2022

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Her bill SB 1156, to repeal the yearly inflation increase in California's gas and diesel taxes, failed 2-2 in the Senate Governance and Finance Committee.

May 6, 2022

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Was replaced as Senate Republican leader by her caucus, which picked Sen. Scott Wilk, after Republicans lost two Senate seats in 2020.

January 20, 2021

Source: latimes.com

Shared, then deleted, a tweet claiming antifa activists led the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The San Francisco Chronicle reported there was no evidence for the claim.

January 6, 2021

Source: sfchronicle.com

Spoke without a mask at a large prayer rally at the state Capitol while under a state COVID-19 quarantine order. She had applied for the event permit.

September 8, 2020

Source: latimes.com

Voted against AB 5, which made it harder for companies to classify workers as independent contractors instead of employees. It passed the Senate 29-11.

September 10, 2019

Source: calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org

Voted against SB 276, which tightened state review of doctors' medical exemptions from school vaccines. It passed the Senate 28-11.

September 4, 2019

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Was chosen by Senate Republicans as their caucus leader, the top Republican post in the California Senate.

January 20, 2019

Source: latimes.com

Voted against SB 32, which set a goal to cut California's greenhouse gas emissions 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. It passed the Assembly 49-30.

August 23, 2016

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Voted against SB 277, which ended personal-belief exemptions from school vaccine requirements. It passed the Assembly 46-31.

June 25, 2015

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Told an anti-abortion banquet in Sacramento that Texas's drought ended the night its governor signed a fetal pain bill. After criticism, she said she had been quoted incorrectly.

June 16, 2015

Source: latimes.com