# Richard Pan > [!note] Stub > This is a short entry that hasn't been fully written yet. **Richard Pan** is a pediatrician, a lecturer at the UC Davis School of Medicine and a former Democratic member of the California Legislature, where he served in the Assembly and then the state Senate until 2022. He is best known for laws tightening school vaccination requirements. The son of Taiwanese immigrants, he finished third in Sacramento's 2024 mayoral primary. He is the 2026 Democratic nominee for California's 6th Congressional District, a Sacramento-area seat redrawn by [[Proposition 50 (California)]]. He finished second in the June 2 top-two primary with 23.2 percent, narrowly behind Rep. [[Kevin Kiley]], who is running with no party preference. Kamala Harris, [[Gavin Newsom]] and the California Democratic Party have endorsed him. He has campaigned on health care, including restoring the expired enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies and opposing the Medicaid cuts in the 2025 federal budget law that Kiley voted for. The race is covered at [[CA-06-2026]]. ## Connections - [[CA-06-2026]] · [[Kevin Kiley]] · [[Gavin Newsom]] · [[Proposition 50 (California)]]