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Benjamin J Allen

Senator, State Senate

In the Legislature

Senate District 24 D · 3,677 floor votes this session, 4% not voting

Committees they vote in: Judiciary · Natural Resources and Water · Energy, Utilities and Communications · Elections and Constitutional Amendments · Environmental Quality · Budget and Fiscal Review · Emergency Management

Bills they lead: 73 (47 became law) — AB 1138, AB 1642, AB 1842, AB 1847, AB 2181, AB 268, AB 679, ACR 195, ACR 59, SB 1047, SB 1079, SB 1093 …

Bills their donors lobbied on

Bills they voted on (latest floor vote) that were lobbied by employers that gave to their campaign, reported spending on them, or paid at their request: the largest first. A lobbying report names the bill, not the side the employer took.

BillTheir voteEmployers that lobbied on it, and what they gave
AB 306
California Building Standards Commission: appeals: code interpretations.		Aye
2026-08-26		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts); LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES ($326 gifts)
SB 607
Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District: contributions and loans.		Aye
2026-08-17		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts); ELEVATE CALIFORNIA ($185 gifts); UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($129 gifts)
SB 540
Independent System Operator: independent regional organization: California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program.		Aye
2025-06-04		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts); ELEVATE CALIFORNIA ($185 gifts)
AB 825
Independent System Operator: independent regional organization.		Aye
2025-09-13		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts); ELEVATE CALIFORNIA ($185 gifts)
AB 1776
Cartwright Act: violations.		Aye
2026-08-30		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts); ELEVATE CALIFORNIA ($185 gifts)
SB 895
California Science and Health Research Bond Act.		Aye
2026-08-31		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts); UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE ($129 gifts)
SB 237
Oil spill prevention: gasoline specifications: suspension: California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: County of Kern: transportation fuels assessment: coastal resources. 		Not voting
2025-09-13		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
SB 840
Greenhouse gases: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: studies.		Aye
2025-09-13		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
SB 34
Air pollution: South Coast Air Quality Management District: mobile sources: Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.		Not voting
2025-09-13		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
SB 601
Water: waste discharge.		Aye
2025-06-04		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
SB 655
Dwelling units: indoor temperature.		Aye
2025-09-11		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
SB 254
Energy.		Aye
2025-09-13		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
AB 39
General plans: Local Electrification Planning Act.		Aye
2025-09-09		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
AB 263
Scott River: Shasta River: watersheds.		Aye
2025-09-09		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
AB 1156
Williamson Act contracts: cancellation fees: photovoltaic solar facilities.		Aye
2026-08-31		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
AB 1207
Climate change: market-based compliance mechanism: extension.		Aye
2025-09-13		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
AB 154
Greenhouse gases: climate corporate accountability: climate-related financial risk: regulations: California Environmental Quality Act exemption.		Aye
2025-09-12		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
SB 222
Residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC systems.		Aye
2026-08-25		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
SB 1245
Sale of gasoline: petroleum: branded and unbranded: report. 		Aye
2026-04-30		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
SB 1085
Water supply planning: housing developments.		Aye
2026-08-27		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
SB 877
Residential property insurance: loss estimate transparency.		Aye
2026-08-31		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
SB 1360
Elections: translation of election materials.		Aye
2026-08-31		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
SB 886
California Technology Innovation and Ratepayer Protection Act.		Aye
2026-08-31		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
SB 905
Electricity.		Aye
2026-08-30		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
SB 1125
Water Rate Assistance Program.		Aye
2026-08-26		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
SB 1098
Public Utilities Commission: memorandum and balancing accounts.		Aye
2026-08-31		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
SB 876
Fire and residential property insurance. 		Aye
2026-08-31		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
SB 1359
Natural Gas Ratepayer Protection Act.		Aye
2026-08-30		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
SB 1259
Refineries: decommissioning and remediation: cost estimates.		Aye
2026-05-27		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)
AB 2493
Electrical corporations: interconnection: Public Utilities Commission: transmission development monitor.		Aye
2026-08-31		California Environmental Voters ($650 gifts)

Form 700 statements

StatementFiledWhat it lists
2025 Annual
Senator, State Senate		2026-03-0232 gifts, 5 travel
2024 Annual
Senator, State Senate		2025-03-0331 gifts, 5 travel

Findings

Worth a look Lobbying · the statement

Lobbying reports name $357.96 in gifts to them in 2025 from 3 sources this statement doesn't list

Lobbyist employers' reports to the Secretary of State (Cal-Access) list activity expenses that benefited them in 2025, $50 or more from each of these sources, none named among the statement's gifts or travel: ELEVATE CALIFORNIA $185 (entertainment ticket); LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES $112.96 (la county division annual installation ceremony and dinner); 1HWY1, LLC $60 (food / beverages).

What to check
  • Whether they attended or accepted it: the report is the lobbyist employer's account.
  • What Schedule D doesn't require (Form 700 instructions): gifts returned within 30 days; free admission and food at an event where they made a speech, from its organizer; up to two tickets to a campaign or 501(c)(3) fundraiser from the organization holding it; informational material; plaques worth less than $250.
  • Whether it's on the statement under another name.
  • That the report's beneficiary is this person (matched by name and office).
ELEVATE CALIFORNIA $185
LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES $112.96
  • 2025-08-07 LA County Division Annual Installation Ceremony and Dinner at Palos Verdes Golf Club $112.96 (of $15,023.25 for everyone it lists) · lobbyist employer report
1HWY1, LLC $60
  • 2025-01-03 FOOD / BEVERAGES at MALIBU FARM SEAPORT SAN DIEGO $60 (of $666.68 for everyone it lists) · lobbyist employer report
Rule: Lobbying gifts not on the statement
“A gift is reportable if its fair market value is $50 or more. In addition, multiple gifts totaling $50 or more received during the reporting period from a single source must be reported.”Form 700 (2025/2026), Instructions – Schedule D ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Worth a look Lobbying · the statement

Lobbying reports name $200 in gifts to them in 2024 from 1 source this statement doesn't list

Lobbyist employers' reports to the Secretary of State (Cal-Access) list activity expenses that benefited them in 2024, $50 or more from each of these sources, none named among the statement's gifts or travel: EQUALITY CALIFORNIA $200 (beverages).

What to check
  • Whether they attended or accepted it: the report is the lobbyist employer's account.
  • What Schedule D doesn't require (Form 700 instructions): gifts returned within 30 days; free admission and food at an event where they made a speech, from its organizer; up to two tickets to a campaign or 501(c)(3) fundraiser from the organization holding it; informational material; plaques worth less than $250.
  • Whether it's on the statement under another name.
  • That the report's beneficiary is this person (matched by name and office).
EQUALITY CALIFORNIA $200
Rule: Lobbying gifts not on the statement
“A gift is reportable if its fair market value is $50 or more. In addition, multiple gifts totaling $50 or more received during the reporting period from a single source must be reported.”Form 700 (2025/2026), Instructions – Schedule D ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Context Travel payments · the statement

Lists $11,039.70 in travel paid by others (5 payments)

Largest: Vancouver and Victoria, Canada ($7,148.30, California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy), Berkeley, California ($1,441.70, California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy), Salt Lake City, California ($1,229.81, California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy). 5 of 5 are listed as gifts.

What to check
  • Who paid, and for what: speeches, conferences and nonprofit-paid travel are treated differently (Schedule E instructions).
  • Whether the paying organizations have business before the office.

Travel: California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy $7,148 p.5Travel: California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy $1,442 p.5Travel: California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy $1,230 p.5

Rule: Travel paid by others
“Travel payments from third parties (not your employer).”Form 700 (2025/2026), Types of reportable interests ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Context Travel payments · the statement

Lists $9,180.86 in travel paid by others (5 payments)

Largest: Denver, Boulder and Santa Fe, New Mexico ($6,057.96, California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy), Palm Springs, California ($1,270.87, California Environmental Voters Education Fund), Napa, California ($1,002.42, California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy). 5 of 5 are listed as gifts.

What to check
  • Who paid, and for what: speeches, conferences and nonprofit-paid travel are treated differently (Schedule E instructions).
  • Whether the paying organizations have business before the office.

Travel: California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy $6,058 p.6Travel: California Environmental Voters Education Fund $1,271 p.6Travel: California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy $1,002 p.6

Rule: Travel paid by others
“Travel payments from third parties (not your employer).”Form 700 (2025/2026), Types of reportable interests ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Behested payments

What Benjamin J Allen reported others paying at their request (FPPC Form 803) since 2024: $20,000 in 2 payments to 2 recipients. Officials report a source that pays $5,000 or more in a year; there is no limit.

Largest recipients: Safe Place for Youth $10,000 · Connections for Children $10,000

Paid byTo, forAmount
Sage Strategies on behalf of Meta
Sacramento		Safe Place for Youth · Donation made following a toy drive
Charitable · 2025-12-22		$10,000
Sage Strategies on behalf of Meta
Sacramento		Connections for Children · Donation made following a toy drive
Charitable · 2025-12-16		$10,000

From the FPPC's Form 803 data (search and download). “Campaign donor” links to a donor who gave to two or more 2026 state candidates.

Reported by lobbying interests

What lobbyist employers, lobbyists and lobbying firms told the Secretary of State they spent on Benjamin J Allen since 2024: $2,093 across 24 items from 12 sources. Each amount is their share as the report gives it. Matched by name and office.

Reported byWhat, whenTo them
California Environmental Voters
$650 in all		Meal at California Environmental Voters · 2026-05-18 · report$15.20
Meal at Frank Fat's · 2026-02-18 · report$22.27
Meal at Cafeteria 15L · 2025-08-20 · report$141.31
Staffer Meal at Cafeteria 15L · 2025-08-20 · report$141.31
Staffer Meal at Cafeteria 15L · 2025-08-20 · report$141.31
Meal at Frank Fat's · 2025-06-18 · report$52.58
Meal at Frank Fat's · 2025-05-21 · report$33.74
Meal at Frank Fat's · 2025-03-19 · report$20.94
Meal at Frank Fat's · 2025-02-19 · report$33.24
Meal at Frank Fat's · 2024-08-21 · report$30.36
Meal at Frank Fat's · 2024-01-17 · report$17.25
PERSONAL INSURANCE FEDERATION OF CALIFORNIA
$330 in all		LODGING AND SUBSISTENCE FOR SPEAKER at MAR MONTE HOTEL · 2025-10-09 · report$330.19
LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES
$326 in all		Los Angeles County Division General Membership Meeting at The Office Caterer · 2026-01-08 · report$68.29
LA County Division Annual Installation Ceremony and Dinner at Palos Verdes Golf Club · 2025-08-07 · report$112.96
Officer Dinner at Ella Dining Room · 2024-04-17 · report$144.52
EQUALITY CALIFORNIA
$200 in all		BEVERAGES at FAIRMONT CENTURY PLAZA · 2024-10-05 · report$200
ELEVATE CALIFORNIA
$185 in all		ENTERTAINMENT TICKET at ATHLETICS · 2025-07-08 · report$185
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THE
$129 in all		Lunch at The University Club · 2025-10-06 · report$128.78
LOS ANGELES; CITY OF
$84 in all		Meal at Shef Catering Services · 2025-04-06 · report$83.90
LOS ANGELES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES 2028 D/B/A LA 28
$61 in all		Dinner at Ella Dining Room & Bar · 2025-08-07 · report$61
1HWY1, LLC
$60 in all		FOOD / BEVERAGES at MALIBU FARM SEAPORT SAN DIEGO · 2025-01-03 · report$60
AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS
$40 in all		TICKETS at AGUA CALIENTE CULTURAL MUSEUM · 2024-12-13 · report$40
CIVIL JUSTICE ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA
$20 in all		CALIFORNIA PROJECT LUNCHEON at PETRA GREEK · 2026-06-10 · report$20.01
CHRIS ZGRAGGEN
$9 in all		BABY ONESIE at TARGET · 2024-07-25 · report$9.30

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