Election 2026 · Federal

U.S. House, California District 30

Published September 29, 2026 · Updated October 2, 2026

Laura Friedman (incumbent) and Scott Alan Meyers are the candidates for U.S. House, California District 30 on the November 3, 2026 ballot.

U.S. Rep. Laura Friedman, a Democrat, faces Scott Alan Meyers, a Republican, for the U.S. House seat in the 30th Congressional District. In the City of Los Angeles, the district covers Hollywood, East Hollywood, Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Atwater Village, the Fairfax and Miracle Mile area, the Hollywood Hills and Sunland-Tujunga.

Summary by CityHallPass, not the official text or legal advice. The official text controls: LA County's official election information.

What it means for the City of LA

Congress writes the budgets for federal grant programs that pay for some City of Los Angeles services. One example is the Community Development Block Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The City's 2026-27 Proposed Budget says the City gets these funds based on its population, poverty and housing overcrowding, and uses them for housing, economic development and social services for low- and moderate-income residents. The same budget estimates $749,787,681 in grant receipts for City departments in 2026-27, from federal, state, local and other sources. About 388,000 City residents live in this district.

Primary results, June 2, 2026

Seven candidates. Laura Friedman and Scott Alan Meyers, the top two, advanced to November 3. The whole district is in Los Angeles County. Total votes for the office: 194,351. Percentages are each candidate's share of all votes cast for the office, from the certified Statement of Vote. Certified results

The candidates

The job

What a House member does. The House makes and passes federal laws; the Senate is the other chamber of Congress (House.gov). Members serve on committees, which consider bills and oversee federal agencies and programs (House.gov). A member’s office also helps constituents with problems involving federal agencies (Friedman’s casework page). Members can request community project funding in spending bills, and Friedman’s office has announced several such grants (Station 8 release).

Pay and staff. A member earns $174,000 a year, a rate unchanged since 2009 (Congressional Research Service, Sept. 10, 2026). Each member gets a Members’ Representational Allowance for staff, offices, district travel and mail. Since 2023 these allowances have ranged from $1,849,149 to $2,088,499 per member, and the levels did not change for 2026. A member may hire up to 18 permanent staff plus up to four more in set categories such as part-time or shared employees (Congressional Research Service).

Why it matters to the City. Congress funds grant programs the City relies on. The City’s proposed 2026-27 budget estimates $749.8 million in grant receipts for City departments from federal, state and other sources, including HUD’s Community Development Block Grant (City proposed budget). Federal safety money also reaches the district. One example is a $1,031,000 grant for the Verdugo Fire Communications Center, which serves 13 cities; her office tied it to the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics (Friedman release, March 12, 2026).

The new district. Proposition 50 redrew the lines for 2026 through 2030 (Secretary of State).

• Other cities (2020 Census): Glendale (196,980 residents), Burbank (107,613) and West Hollywood (35,829) are wholly inside. Small parts of Pasadena (8,992) and Santa Clarita (8,569) are too (Statewide Database city splits report). The Daily News reported that the new lines added an area north of the San Fernando Valley, including Acton and Agua Dulce (Daily News, June 2, 2026).
• City of Los Angeles: 388,441 City residents live here, 9.9% of the City’s 3,912,115 (Statewide Database city splits report).
• City neighborhoods include Hollywood, East Hollywood, Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Atwater Village, Elysian Valley, the Fairfax, Beverly Grove and Miracle Mile area, Greater Wilshire, the Hollywood Hills and Sunland-Tujunga. They fall mostly in Council Districts 13, 5, 4 and 7, with small parts of 1 and 10. We placed them by matching census tracts in the Statewide Database block file to the City’s council district and neighborhood council maps, so the edges are approximate.
• Voters: 491,874 registered as of May 18, 2026: 52.23% Democratic, 17.78% Republican and 23.64% no party preference (Secretary of State).

Records

Laura Friedman

Committees (House Clerk):

• Transportation and Infrastructure, on the Highways and Transit; Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management; Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials; and Water Resources and Environment subcommittees (House Clerk).
• Science, Space, and Technology, on the Energy subcommittee (House Clerk).
• In June 2026 she and Rep. Emilia Sykes (D-Ohio) began leading House Democrats’ Housing Affordability Working Group (release, June 16, 2026).

Bills she introduced. Congress.gov lists 11 bills she sponsored in 2025-2026. None had become law as of Sept. 30, 2026 (Congress.gov).

• H.R. 4662, naming a Glendale post office for Glendale-born Paul Ignatius, passed the House in June 2026 and awaits a Senate vote (release).
• Don’t Penalize Victims Act (H.R. 2254), with Rep. Mike Ezell (R-Miss.): gifts from GoFundMe drives, churches and charities would no longer count against a disaster victim’s FEMA aid. A House committee folded it into its FEMA overhaul bill in September 2025 (release, Sept. 4, 2025).
• Cut Red Tape for Housing Act (H.R. 5085), with Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.): exempts some urban infill housing from federal environmental review under NEPA (release, Aug. 27, 2025).
• Safe and Affordable Transit Act (H.R. 6298), with Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.): a federal grant program for transit police and safety upgrades (release, Nov. 25, 2025).
• Also: the Build HUBS Act, on federal financing for transit-oriented housing, with Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) (release, Jan. 15, 2026); the Next Gen Road Safety Act, federal grants for technology to prevent high-speed police pursuits (release, April 8, 2026); and the Restoring Essential Healthcare Act (H.R. 4796), the Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation Act (H.R. 3874), the Wildfire Homeowner Relief Act (H.R. 2428) and the Stop Disaster Price Gouging Act (H.R. 2427).
• On Sept. 24, 2026 she announced the Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act, a 20% federal tax credit on U.S. labor costs for film and TV productions, co-led by Republicans and Democrats in both chambers (release).

Federal money for the district. Her office announced community project grants including $1,031,000 for the Verdugo Fire Communications Center (release, March 12, 2026), $500,000 toward replacing LA County Fire Station 8 in West Hollywood and $1,092,000 for Rose Bowl water and wastewater systems (Station 8 release; Rose Bowl release). Her office says it returned $5.5 million to constituents in her first year (release, Jan. 5, 2026).

Assembly record. Her office says AB 1963, which she wrote and which became law in 2024, forced a fast state review of the weed killer paraquat; every maker then pulled it from the California market in 2026 (release, Aug. 31, 2026).

Voting record. From the Clerk’s 676 roll calls between Jan. 3, 2025 and Sept. 16, 2026 (House Clerk roll call votes):

• She missed 4 votes (0.6%) and voted with most House Democrats on 97.8% of the votes she cast (CityHallPass count of the Clerk’s roll call records).
• No on H.R. 1 (May 22 and July 3, 2025), the SAVE Act, the Laken Riley Act, and the GENIUS and CLARITY crypto bills (roll calls 145, 190, 102, 23, 199, 200).
• Impeachment: she voted against tabling articles of impeachment against President Trump on June 24, 2025, Dec. 11, 2025 and Sept. 15, 2026 (roll call 175; roll call 322; 2026 roll call 298).
• War powers: yes on all eleven 2025-2026 war powers resolutions, on Venezuela, Iran, Lebanon and “terrorist organizations in the Western Hemisphere” (roll call 345, 346; 2026 roll calls 48, 85, 114, 170, 199, 201, 232, 282, 307). On the June 4, 2026 Lebanon resolution, 117 Democrats voted no (2026 roll call 201).
• Israel aid: on July 15, 2026 she voted yes on an amendment by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) to bar funds in the State and foreign operations spending bill from going to Israel, cutting $3.3 billion in military financing (Rules Committee; 2026 roll call 243). It failed 104-314 (2026 roll call 243).
• Where she split from most Democrats: no on the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (Jan. 22, 2026; 149 Democrats voted yes), the State and financial services funding bill (Jan. 14, 2026), a FISA surveillance extension (April 30, 2026) and the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act (May 12, 2026); yes on the HALT Fentanyl Act (H.R. 27, Feb. 6, 2025) and the Fix Our Forests Act (Jan. 23, 2025) (2026 roll call 45; 2026 roll call 28; 2026 roll call 155; 2026 roll call 157; roll call 33; roll call 25).

Ethics and court records. In September 2021 the FPPC issued a warning letter, with no fine, finding she “failed to timely file a behested payment report” for a $5,000 payment the State Building and Construction Trades Council made at her behest to the California Armenian Legislative Caucus in August 2020. It chose a warning over a fine because the amount was “relatively low,” her office had pressed the caucus for the information, she filed before the FPPC contacted her, and she had no prior enforcement history (FPPC warning letter, No. 2021-00824). No other official findings were found in House Ethics Committee statements and reports, Office of Congressional Conduct referrals, FEC enforcement records (MURs, administrative fines and ADR cases, searched by her name, her committee’s name and ID, C00831321, and her leadership PAC, Turnout for Democracy, C00900936), or City Ethics Commission records. She holds no State Bar license. No court case naming her as a party was found in CourtListener federal and appellate records (searched Sept. 30, 2026).

Scott Alan Meyers

Career. Civil lawyer for 37 years and a 26-year member of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, his campaign says (campaign bio). The State Bar lists his office as the Law Offices of Scott A. Meyers in Burbank, admitted Dec. 7, 1988, active, with no public discipline (State Bar). He told SCNG his job is “independent business owner & attorney” (SCNG).

Public office. None (SCNG). His campaign committee’s reports to the FEC begin Jan. 1, 2026 (FEC).

Ethics and court records. The State Bar shows no public discipline (State Bar). No public enforcement actions found in FPPC, City Ethics Commission or FEC enforcement records (MURs, administrative fines and ADR cases, searched by his name, his committee’s name and its ID, C00937912). No case in CourtListener federal and appellate records could be tied to him (searched Sept. 30, 2026).

Where they stand

Both candidates answered the Southern California News Group questionnaire (Friedman; Meyers; both May 4, 2026). The issues below come from those answers and from Meyers’s issues page (meyersforcongress.com/issues, checked Sept. 30, 2026). We found no debate.

On the other ballot measures

No statement by either candidate on any November 3, 2026 measure was found in the sources we checked: the SCNG questionnaires (Friedman; Meyers), Friedman’s House site and campaign site, Meyers’s campaign site and the news articles cited below. Measure list: Secretary of State qualified ballot measures page.

City residents in the district also vote on City measures FD, TE, LA, PL, EE, PRK, PRT and SC (County list of measures). We found no position by either candidate on those either.

Endorsements

Laura Friedman

From her campaign’s endorsement list (campaign site, checked Sept. 30, 2026) unless another source is linked.

• Parties: California Democratic Party, primary endorsement ratified in February 2026 (CDP endorsement list); Los Angeles County Democratic Party (campaign site).
• Unions: California Federation of Labor Unions, general election (Labor Fed list, Aug. 4, 2026); SEIU California (SEIU California); California Federation of Teachers; California School Employees Association; California State Association of Letter Carriers; Ironworkers Locals 433 and 4162 (campaign site); National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW).
• Organizations: California Environmental Voters; Abundant Housing Los Angeles; Armenian National Committee of America Western Region; League of Conservation Voters; Sierra Club and its Angeles Chapter; NRDC Action Fund; Planned Parenthood Action Fund; Giffords PAC; Equality California; Elect Democratic Women; Vote Mama PAC; National Women’s Political Caucus; Jewish Democratic Council of America; JStreetPAC; JACPAC; DMFI PAC; and local Democratic clubs (campaign site).
• Change after the Israel aid vote: Jewish Insider reported on July 27, 2026 that Democratic Majority for Israel’s PAC (DMFI PAC) paused its endorsement of Friedman and eight other Democrats who voted for the Massie amendment (Jewish Insider). Her campaign site still listed DMFI PAC on Sept. 30.
• Elected officials: none listed on her campaign site.
• Newspapers: None found.

Scott Alan Meyers

From his campaign’s endorsement list (campaign site, checked Sept. 30, 2026) unless another source is linked.

• Parties: California Republican Party (CAGOP endorsements); Los Angeles County Republican Party (campaign site).
• Organizations: Reform California; California Young Republicans (campaign site).
• Individuals: Dr. Houman Hemmati; Elizabeth Barcohana, chair of the California Republican Party’s subcommittee for Jewish engagement; John Alle, co-founder of the Santa Monica Coalition; Joseph John, chairman emeritus of Combat Veterans For Congress; Jennifer Van Laar, managing editor of RedState (campaign site).
• Elected officials and unions: None listed on his campaign site.
• Newspapers: None found.

Polls

No public polls of this race were found.

Money

Source: FEC candidate summaries (Friedman; Meyers), from the FEC’s bulk candidate summary dated Sept. 29, 2026. The next reports, covering July 1 to Sept. 30, are due Oct. 15 (FEC 2026 reporting dates). Federal law limits individuals to $3,500 per candidate per election, so $7,000 for the primary and general combined (FEC contribution limits).

Who is giving

Method: CityHallPass analysis of itemized individual contributions to each candidate’s campaign committee in the FEC bulk contribution files for 2025-2026, latest amendment of each entry, refunds netted. A donor is a name plus ZIP code. Gifts of $200 or less need not be itemized; unitemized money is estimated as FEC individual receipts minus itemized totals. Location is by ZIP code; a ZIP code counts as City of LA when at least half its area is inside the City, and as in the district when its center falls inside the new district.

Source: FEC itemized contributions (Friedman; Meyers), analyzed by CityHallPass; locations placed by donor ZIP code using the City’s boundary map and Census ZIP code areas.

Laura Friedman

• Donors: 450 itemized donors gave $464,150. Seven gave $7,000, the two-election maximum (FEC).
• Industries (share of itemized dollars): retired or not employed 34.0%; law 8.9%; entertainment and media 7.9%; health care 6.3% (including 10 Cedars-Sinai employees, $9,750); architecture, engineering and planning 6.2%; finance 3.7%; lobbying, public affairs and political consulting 2.3% (19 donors, $10,875); real estate and development 2.0%. 19.0% could not be assigned an industry (CityHallPass coding of FEC employer and occupation fields).
• Employees of City contractors: Twelve donors ($10,750, 2.3%) work for firms on City contract reports, such as El Proyecto del Barrio, Cordoba Corporation, RAND and Kadesh & Associates (City Ethics contract data).
• Same-employer giving: no group of five or more donors from one employer within three days (FEC).
• Through conduits: $379,030 of her individual money came through ActBlue (FEC). Another $16,200 from 11 people was earmarked through the AIPAC PAC, which also gave $4,994 directly (FEC, AIPAC PAC disbursements to Friedman). JStreetPAC passed through $6,850 from 12 people and gave $2,500 directly (FEC, JStreetPAC disbursements to Friedman).
• PACs and other committees: giving committees reported $290,544 to Friedman from 92 committees through August 2026 in their own FEC reports (FEC bulk committee-to-candidate file; FEC committee receipts). That is more than the $286,550 on her own report through June 30, partly because it includes gifts made in July and August. By type: labor union PACs $163,000; trade associations $46,500; leadership and other PACs $36,000; membership groups $30,544; cooperatives $14,000; corporate PACs $500. $10,000 gifts came from the Amalgamated Transit Union, AFSCME, UFCW, LiUNA, the Machinists, the Carpenters, two pilots’ unions and American Crystal Sugar (FEC).
• Tribal governments: seven tribes gave $12,500 directly, led by the Pechanga Band ($4,500) (FEC receipts).

Scott Alan Meyers

• Donors: 13 itemized donors gave $16,750. Two gave $3,500 (FEC).
• Where: 58.2% of itemized dollars came from California outside LA County. Three donors ($750) gave from ZIP codes in the district (FEC).
• His own money: he loaned the campaign $40,000, more than twice what individuals gave (FEC).
• PACs: none (FEC).

Outside spending

No independent expenditures for or against Friedman or Meyers had been reported to the FEC as of Sept. 30, 2026 (FEC, Friedman; FEC, Meyers). The only outside spending in this race was primary mail: the American Independent Party of California spent $7,909.38 on May 21, 2026 for Republican Dennis Feitosa, who finished fifth (FEC independent expenditure file; Statement of Vote).

Key moments

Debates and forums

We found no debate or candidate forum with both Friedman and Meyers for 2026 as of Sept. 30.

Events

• Friedman’s vote to cut military aid to Israel (July 2026).

  • What happened: Friedman voted for the Massie amendment to bar State and foreign operations funds from Israel (roll call 243). Jewish Insider reported on July 17 that AIPAC removed 18 lawmakers it had endorsed who voted yes, Friedman among them, from its fundraising portal (Jewish Insider). On July 27 it reported that DMFI PAC paused its endorsement of Friedman and eight others (Jewish Insider).
  • Friedman’s response: we found none on her House site or in these articles.
  • Meyers’s response: we found none.

• National film tax credit (2025-2026).

  • What happened: Friedman said she had spent “more than a year” building support for a federal film and TV tax credit, and President Trump called for one on Aug. 31, 2026, the Beverly Press reported (Beverly Press, Sept. 2, 2026). She introduced the bill with Republican and Democratic co-leads on Sept. 24 (release).
  • Meyers’s position: his platform calls for reviving the film industry but names no bill (issues page).

• Primary result (June 2026).

  • What happened: Friedman took 52.68% and Meyers 16.58%. Democrat Cameron Tennyson was third at 13.77% (Statement of Vote).
  • Responses: Friedman told the Beverly Press, “I’ll keep standing up to Trump’s attacks on democracy, affordability, health care and our state” (Beverly Press, June 3, 2026). We found no statement from Meyers.