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Portrait of Tim Grayson

Tim Grayson

Democratic

State Senate · Senate District 9

In office
2024–present
BiographyReporting (Tier 3) · reviewed

Concord is the clearest local marker in Tim Grayson’s public career. Before seeking state office, he worked as a construction contractor and served on the Concord City Council. In November 2016, he ran for the California State Assembly, beginning a legislative tenure that continued through 2024. He represented two Assembly districts during those years, then contested Senate District 9 in November 2024. His move into the Assembly also involved a party change: once a Republican, he switched parties to make that run.

BEFORE PUBLIC OFFICE

Grayson was born on September 17, 1967. The available account of his working life before politics is brief but concrete: he was a construction contractor. It does not identify his business, projects or years in the trade.

His first identified public office was on the Concord City Council. That put municipal office before his eight years in the Assembly, although no council dates, votes or policy initiatives are specified. The sequence is the important part of the record: construction work, the Concord council and then a campaign for state office.

That path also kept Concord in the foreground. Grayson’s later offices carried district numbers and broader constituencies, but the local government post identified with him was the council in Concord.

THE PATH TO OFFICE

Grayson ran for the Assembly in November 2016. He had once been a Republican and switched parties to run for the Assembly. No further account of that change, including his reasons for it, is given.

He served in the California State Assembly from 2016 to 2024. From 2016 through 2022, he represented the 14th Assembly District. From 2022 through 2024, he represented the 15th Assembly District. The district designation changed; his Assembly service continued.

In November 2024, Grayson ran for the California State Senate, contesting the 9th District seat. That campaign followed his council service and two successive Assembly district assignments. The documented career is thus an institutional progression: Concord city government, the Assembly and a Senate race.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Grayson’s offices and campaigns are clear. A distinct policy signature is not. No particular legislation, budget decision, committee assignment, appointment, vote or organized cause is identified in the account of his career. Nor does it name a specific constituency or interest whose policy priorities he repeatedly advanced.

It would therefore go beyond the documented facts to label him primarily as a policymaker on housing, labor, public safety, transportation, construction or any other issue. His work as a construction contractor cannot by itself be turned into a legislative agenda, and his party change cannot be assigned a policy meaning without further detail.

What can be said is narrower. Grayson brought experience in construction and Concord municipal office into an Assembly career lasting from 2016 to 2024. He represented the 14th and then the 15th Assembly districts before contesting Senate District 9. For voters looking for the interests he has been most committed to serving through policy, the offices establish the reach of his career; the policy record provided here does not establish the answer.

Record of service
  • State Assembly · Assembly District 14 · former
  • State Senate · Senate District 9 · 2024–present
  • State Assembly · Assembly District 15 · 2022–
BiographyReporting (Tier 3) · reviewed before publication

Concord is the clearest local marker in Tim Grayson’s public career. Before seeking state office, he worked as a construction contractor and served on the Concord City Council. In November 2016, he ran for the California State Assembly, beginning a legislative tenure that continued through 2024. He represented two Assembly districts during those years, then contested Senate District 9 in November 2024. His move into the Assembly also involved a party change: once a Republican, he switched parties to make that run.

BEFORE PUBLIC OFFICE

Grayson was born on September 17, 1967. The available account of his working life before politics is brief but concrete: he was a construction contractor. It does not identify his business, projects or years in the trade.

His first identified public office was on the Concord City Council. That put municipal office before his eight years in the Assembly, although no council dates, votes or policy initiatives are specified. The sequence is the important part of the record: construction work, the Concord council and then a campaign for state office.

That path also kept Concord in the foreground. Grayson’s later offices carried district numbers and broader constituencies, but the local government post identified with him was the council in Concord.

THE PATH TO OFFICE

Grayson ran for the Assembly in November 2016. He had once been a Republican and switched parties to run for the Assembly. No further account of that change, including his reasons for it, is given.

He served in the California State Assembly from 2016 to 2024. From 2016 through 2022, he represented the 14th Assembly District. From 2022 through 2024, he represented the 15th Assembly District. The district designation changed; his Assembly service continued.

In November 2024, Grayson ran for the California State Senate, contesting the 9th District seat. That campaign followed his council service and two successive Assembly district assignments. The documented career is thus an institutional progression: Concord city government, the Assembly and a Senate race.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Grayson’s offices and campaigns are clear. A distinct policy signature is not. No particular legislation, budget decision, committee assignment, appointment, vote or organized cause is identified in the account of his career. Nor does it name a specific constituency or interest whose policy priorities he repeatedly advanced.

It would therefore go beyond the documented facts to label him primarily as a policymaker on housing, labor, public safety, transportation, construction or any other issue. His work as a construction contractor cannot by itself be turned into a legislative agenda, and his party change cannot be assigned a policy meaning without further detail.

What can be said is narrower. Grayson brought experience in construction and Concord municipal office into an Assembly career lasting from 2016 to 2024. He represented the 14th and then the 15th Assembly districts before contesting Senate District 9. For voters looking for the interests he has been most committed to serving through policy, the offices establish the reach of his career; the policy record provided here does not establish the answer.

The record

156 events, each with its source
Cosponsored
Cosponsored SCR 123

California Peace Officers’ Memorial Day.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SB 1056

Criminal procedure.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SB 1036

Mitigation Fee Act.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SCR 120

National Consumer Protection Week: Slam the Scam Day.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SB 1017

Pupils: foster youth: access to pupil records.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SB 1014

Development projects: preliminary estimate of required improvements: onsite and offsite improvements.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SB 1007

Common interest developments: annual reports: assessments: discipline.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SB 1001

Local agency, public utility, or mutual water company: personnel access: Personal Identity Verification-Interoperable.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SB 1003

Prohousing enhanced infrastructure financing districts.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SB 988

California Motor Vehicle Glass Act.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored AB 1743

Firearms.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SB 972

California Financing Law: commercial loans: investment advisers.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored AB 1699

Good Fire Act: Prescribed Fire Liability Pilot Program: burn bosses: California Environmental Quality Act.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SB 959

Average daily attendance: emergencies: major safety hazard.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SR 76

Relative to Women’s History Month.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SB 950

Health care coverage: dementia.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SB 919

Biomethane monetary incentive program.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SCR 115

Wear Red Day.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SB 902

Early childhood education and childcare: electronic signatures.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SR 71

Relative to affordable homeownership.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SCR 112

National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored AB 1590

California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program: revised allocation formula.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SJR 12

Proposed 2026–2031 National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program: opposition.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SB 872

Delta Levees and Canal Subsidence Fund.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SR 67

Relative to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SCR 105

Human Rights: Gaza.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SR 54

Relative to Korean Independence Day.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SR 53

Relative to Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SCR 93

First Responders’ Day.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SR 49

Relative to the 75th anniversary of the Korean War.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SCR 84

California Rail Month.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SR 46

Relative to Affordable Housing Month.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SCR 80

Frontotemporal Degeneration Awareness Week.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SR 44

Relative to California Adopt-a-Pet Day.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SCR 74

Flag Day.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SCR 72

Childcare Awareness Month.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored ACR 70

Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SCR 67

Family Justice Center Day.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SCR 64

Student Mental Health Awareness Week in California.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SCR 54

San Francisco Bar Pilots.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SR 36

Relative to the Paris Accords.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SCR 41

Special Olympics Day.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SCR 34

Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SCR 35

California Down Syndrome Awareness Month and California Down Syndrome Awareness Day.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SR 28

Relative to California Agriculture Day.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored AJR 3

Public social services: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SB 825

Consumers: financial protection.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SB 676

California Environmental Quality Act: judicial streamlining: state of emergency: wildfire.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SB 681

Housing.

Cosponsored
Cosponsored SB 686

Housing programs: financing.