Brian Jones
- Assembly: 2010-2016
- Senate: 2018-present
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Bio
Brian Jones, 55, is the minority leader of California’s Republicans in the Senate, a position he’s held since 2022. He’s a former member of the Santee City Council and served in the Assembly. He has a bachelor’s from Cal State San Diego. After college, he started a carpet cleaning business and sold cars and motorcycles. He was an associate a pastor, general manager for a national ministry headquartered in Santee and was in commercial real estate, where he worked with churches. He’s married with three adult children.
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Bill Activity
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Of 23 bills:For this session year, this legislator initiated 23 bills: 3 passed, 6 failed, and 14 are currently pending.
Money Tracker
In the last session, this legislator received 36.0% more than their colleagues and at least $254,683.0 from the 'Finance, Insurance & Real Estate' donor group, which represented 14.01% of their contributions.
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).
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Unitemized Contributions
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.
61.0% 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.
36.0% lower than the average legislators
Grand Total for Elections
36.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Independent Voter Project | $1,064.7 | Nov 14, 2021 | food and drink |
| California Tribal Business Alliance | $600 | Sep 18, 2021 | olf tournament food, drinks & entertainment |
| Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation | $200 | Jan 12, 2021 | engraved knife |
| Re-Elect Atkins for Senate 2020 | $80.71 | Feb 23, 2021 | jacket |
| California Armenian Legislative Caucus | $66.21 | Jul 7, 2021 | food and drink |
| California Tribal Business Alliance | $53.22 | Jul 14, 2021 | Food, drink and entertainment |
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
This legislator is ranked 4th highest for the amount of personal gifts received.
Policy
Bills Authored by Brian Jones
Committee: Senate Standing Committee on Local Government
Committee: Assembly Standing Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials
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.
Interest Group Rankings
Generally Aligned
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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