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Bob J Archuleta

Senator, State Senate

Running in 2026: State Senate District 30 (June 2) “State Senator” · State Senate District 30 (November 3) “State Senator”

In the Legislature

Senate District 30 D · 3,677 floor votes this session, 2% not voting

Committees they vote in: Business, Professions and Economic Development · Transportation · Energy, Utilities and Communications · Governmental Organization · Budget and Fiscal Review · Military and Veterans Affairs

Bills they lead: 58 (31 became law) — AB 1685, AB 1687, SB 1124, SB 1188, SB 1274, SB 1350, SB 1354, SB 296, SB 374, SB 409, SB 451, SB 480 …

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.

Bill	Their vote	Employers that lobbied on it, and what they gave
AB 831 Gambling: operation of a contest or sweepstakes.	Aye 2025-09-08	CAPITOL CASINO ($5,900 campaign); Park West Casinos, Inc. ($5,900 campaign); SCOTTS VALLEY BAND OF POMO INDIANS ($2,500 campaign); TWENTY-NINE PALMS BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($2,000 campaign)
SB 451 Gambling.	Aye 2025-09-13	CAPITOL CASINO ($5,900 campaign)
AB 341 Oral Health for People with Disabilities Technical Assistance Center Program.	Aye 2025-09-08	CAPITOL CASINO ($5,900 campaign)
SB 920 The Gambling Control Act: regulatory fees.	Aye 2026-08-27	CAPITOL CASINO ($5,900 campaign)
SB 237 Oil spill prevention: gasoline specifications: suspension: California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: County of Kern: transportation fuels assessment: coastal resources.	Aye 2025-09-13	TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. ($2,000 campaign); PHILLIPS 66 ($2,000 campaign); CLEAN ENERGY ($1,000 campaign)
AB 1331 Workplace surveillance.	Aye 2026-08-31	ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,500 campaign); Granite Construction Company ($1,500 campaign)
AB 221 Tribal Nation Grant Fund.	Aye 2025-09-03	SCOTTS VALLEY BAND OF POMO INDIANS ($2,500 campaign); TWENTY-NINE PALMS BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($2,000 campaign)
SB 129 Labor.	Aye 2025-06-30	ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,500 campaign)
SB 847 Workers’ compensation: uninsured employer: transfer of real property.	Aye 2025-05-29	ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,500 campaign)
SB 354 Insurance Information and Privacy Protection Act.	Aye 2026-08-28	ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,500 campaign)
SB 632 Community colleges: California College Promise.	Aye 2026-08-30	ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,500 campaign)
SB 536 Workers’ compensation insurance fraud reporting.	Aye 2025-06-04	ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,500 campaign)
AB 1213 Restitution: priority.	Aye 2025-09-02	ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,500 campaign)
AB 1398 Workers’ compensation.	Aye 2025-09-04	ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,500 campaign)
AB 1329 Workers’ Compensation: Subsequent injuries payments.	Aye 2025-09-08	ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,500 campaign)
AB 1336 Farmworkers: benefits.	Aye 2025-09-09	ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,500 campaign)
AB 1293 Workers’ compensation: qualified medical evaluators.	Aye 2025-09-11	ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,500 campaign)
SB 555 Workers’ compensation: average annual earnings.	Aye 2026-01-27	ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,500 campaign)
SB 1048 State Seal of Climate Literacy.	Aye 2026-08-27	ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,500 campaign)
SB 1337 State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: air districts and local governments: transportation fuels refining facilities: memoranda of understanding.	Aye 2026-08-28	ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,500 campaign)
SB 996 Manufactured housing: conformity.	Aye 2026-08-27	ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,500 campaign)
AB 2089 Property taxation: welfare exemption.	Aye 2026-08-26	ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,500 campaign)
AB 1707 Electricians: certification application, examination, and renewal.	Aye 2026-08-27	ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,500 campaign)
AB 899 Beverage containers: recycled glass: market development.	Aye 2025-09-08	E & J GALLO WINERY ($3,000 campaign)
AB 720 Beverages: alcohol permits: container labeling.	Aye 2025-09-11	E & J GALLO WINERY ($3,000 campaign)
AB 1246 Alcoholic beverages: distilled spirits.	Aye 2025-09-11	E & J GALLO WINERY ($3,000 campaign)
SB 1341 Beverage containers: wine and distilled spirits: processing fees.	Aye 2026-08-27	E & J GALLO WINERY ($3,000 campaign)
AB 1991 Alcoholic beverages: market research study: taste testing.	Aye 2026-08-25	E & J GALLO WINERY ($3,000 campaign)
SB 91 All-mailed ballot elections: vote centers.	Aye 2025-05-05	SCOTTS VALLEY BAND OF POMO INDIANS ($2,500 campaign)
SB 8 Peace officers: injury or illness: leaves of absence.	Aye 2025-05-27	SCOTTS VALLEY BAND OF POMO INDIANS ($2,500 campaign)

Form 700 statements

Statement	Filed	What it lists
2025 Annual Senator, State Senate	2026-02-25	18 gifts, 9 travel
2024 Annual Senator, State Senate	2025-03-03	24 gifts, 4 travel

Findings

Worth a look Lobbying · the statement

Lobbying reports name $65 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: Sempra and its Affiliates: San Diego Gas & Electric Company and Southern California Gas Company $65 (holiday wreath sent to district office).

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).

Sempra and its Affiliates: San Diego Gas & Electric Company and Southern California Gas Company $65

2024-12-06 Holiday Wreath Sent to District Office at Southern California Gas $65 · 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

Context Lobbying

15 of their donors and benefactors lobbied on 118 bills they voted on

Employers that lobbied on bills they voted on (as their lobbying reports name the bills) and that gave $32,425 to their campaign, $502 in gifts reported by lobbying interests. Largest: CAPITOL CASINO ($5,900); Park West Casinos, Inc. ($5,900); ZENITH INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,500); E & J GALLO WINERY ($3,000); SCOTTS VALLEY BAND OF POMO INDIANS ($2,500). They voted aye on 117 of the 118.

What to check

Context: lobbying a bill and funding a member are both legal and public.
A report names the bills an employer lobbied on, not which side it took: read the bill and the employer's position before drawing anything from a vote.
The bills on their page, sorted by how much these interests gave.

Rule: Bills their donors lobbied on

How this rule works

Behested payments

What Bob J Archuleta reported others paying at their request (FPPC Form 803) since 2024: $23,000 in 4 payments to 4 recipients. Officials report a source that pays $5,000 or more in a year; there is no limit.

Largest recipients: Victor Manuel Renteria $6,500 · Cindy Torres Molina $6,500 · Jocelyn Sandoval Soto $5,000 · Isaac Donado $5,000

Paid by	To, for	Amount
California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation Los Angeles	Victor Manuel Renteria · Academic Scholarship Charitable · 2024-07-23	$6,500
California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation Los Angeles	Cindy Torres Molina · Academic Scholarship Charitable · 2024-07-23	$6,500
California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation Long Beach	Jocelyn Sandoval Soto · Academic Scholarship Charitable · 2025-07-15	$5,000
California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation Long Beach	Isaac Donado · Academic Scholarship Charitable · 2025-07-15	$5,000

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 Bob J Archuleta since 2024: $567 across 5 items from 4 sources. Each amount is their share as the report gives it. Matched by name and office.

Reported by	What, when	To them
SPECIALTY EQUIPMENT MARKET ASSOCIATION $448 in all	Lodging at Fontainbleau Las Vegas · 2024-11-06 · report	$286
SPECIALTY EQUIPMENT MARKET ASSOCIATION $448 in all	State Automotive Enthusiast Caucus Reception. Meal and event. at Flight Club Las Vegas · 2024-11-06 · report	$162
Sempra and its Affiliates: San Diego Gas & Electric Company and Southern California Gas Company $65 in all	Holiday Wreath Sent to District Office at Southern California Gas · 2024-12-06 · report	$65
LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES $27 in all	All Cities Holiday Reception at California Club · 2025-12-10 · report	$27.25
CALIFORNIA WORKFORCE ASSOCIATION $27 in all	LUNCH at TEQUILA MUSEO MAYAHUEL · 2026-03-04 · report	$26.78

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Campaign money: State Senate District 30

$566,373itemized, 245 contributions

$0from the candidate (incl. loans)

Plus $44,750 in 10 contributions reported within 24 hours since their latest full report, which ends 2026-09-19: not yet in the totals above (they'll move into them, not be added twice, when the next full report comes in).

California Real Estate PAC (CREPAC) $11,800 2026-09-21 · California State Council of Laborers PAC $5,900 2026-10-08 · L.A. County Probation Officers Union AFSME, LocaL 685 PAC $5,900 2026-09-28 · Bulletin Displays, LLC(Lizette Valencia) $5,750 2026-10-02 · United Nurses Association of California/Union of Health Care Professionals PAC (UNAC PAC) $4,000 2026-10-06 · California New Car Dealers Assoc. PAC $3,900 2026-10-06 · CRC Services, LLC(Jas Sajjan) $3,000 2026-09-21 · California Water Service Company $2,500 2026-10-02 · Marine Clerks PAC Local 63 ILWU $1,000 2026-10-08 · Grant Ross $1,000 2026-09-24

Where their outside money comes from

19%29%17%32%

IndividualsBusinessesTrade, professional and issue groupsLabor unionsTribal governmentsPolitical partiesOther candidates and officeholders

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How it was spent: $424,435

Other (described)$232,921

Consultants$100,199

Contributions to others$25,400

Print ads$13,275

Civic donations$12,400

Fundraising events$11,631

Filing and ballot fees$10,897

Legal and accounting$10,500

Campaign paraphernalia, misc.$2,299

Staff travel and meals$2,161

Largest payees: Daniel C. Weitzman, LLC $50,565 Fundraising events · Bankcard Center $27,313 Office expenses · Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder $25,800 Filing and ballot fees · COGS South Signs $25,438 Other (described) · Kyle Miller $24,578 Staff travel and meals · Budget Watchdogs $23,716 Other (described) · Senior Advocate $20,159 Other (described) · Fernando Chacon dba Universal Graphics Services LLC $20,000 Consultants

Payments on their full reports (Form 460 Schedule E) covering 2025–2026, by the FPPC's expense codes; a consultant's payments to others (ads, mail) show under the consultant.

Top contributors	Type	Total
California Correctional Supervisors Organization PAC Sacramento	Small contributor cmte	$11,800
California Real Estate PAC (CREPAC) Los Angeles	Small contributor cmte	$11,800
California Teachers Association - Association for Better Citizenship (CTA/ABC) Burlingame	Small contributor cmte	$11,800
Zhen Zhong Cao Manager · Sun Yin USA Inc · Walnut	Person	$11,800
Chevron San Ramon	Business/other	$11,800
Chen Feng Chief Executive Officer · Sun Yin USA Inc · Walnut	Person	$11,800
SEIU California State Council Sacramento	Small contributor cmte	$11,800
State Building and Construction Trades Council of California PAC Sacramento	Small contributor cmte	$11,800
Spencer Tien Chief Executive Officer · Condor Outdoor Products · Baldwin Park	Person	$11,800
Building A Stronger Future for California PAC, sponsored by Western States Regional Council of Carpenters Sacramento	Small contributor cmte	$10,900
Peace Officers Research Association of California PAC Sacramento	Small contributor cmte	$10,000
Sohail Masood Chief Executive Officer · Kabafusion · Weston	Person	$8,000
International Brotherhood of Elecrtical Workers Local 11 PAC Pasadena	Small contributor cmte	$7,500
California Credit Union League PAC Ontario	Committee	$7,300
California Correctional Peace Officers Association PAC Sacramento	Committee	$6,900

Committees: BOB ARCHULETA FOR SENATE 2026, BOB ARCHULETA FOR SENATE 2022, BOB ARCHULETA FOR SENATE 2018 OFFICEHOLDER ACCOUNT, Bob Archuleta for Water Board 2016, BOB ARCHULETA FOR SENATE 2018, BOB ARCHULETA FOR SENATE 2018 - SPECIAL. From the Secretary of State's Cal-Access export; reports covering 2025–2026.

Their donors also gave to

Their largest donors who also funded other 2026 state candidates.

Donor	To them	Candidates funded
State Building and Construction Trades Council of California PAC Labor union · Sacramento	$11,800	51
Chevron Business · San Ramon	$11,800	27
Spencer Tien President, Condor Outdoor Products · Baldwin Park	$11,800	3
California Real Estate PAC (CREPAC) Group or PAC · Los Angeles	$11,800	20
California Correctional Supervisors Organization PAC Labor union · Sacramento	$11,800	5
SEIU California State Council Labor union · Sacramento	$11,800	10
Building a Stronger Future for California PAC, sponsored by Western States Regional Council of Carpenters Labor union · Sacramento	$10,900	41
Peace Officers Research Association of California PAC Labor union · Sacramento	$10,000	11
Sohail Masood Chief Executive Officer, Kabafusion · Weston	$8,000	2
California Credit Union League PAC Group or PAC · Ontario	$7,300	86
California Correctional Peace Officers Association PAC Labor union · Sacramento	$6,900	70
International Longshore & Warehouse Union Local 13 PAC Labor union · San Pedro	$6,500	16
Capitol Casino Business · Sacramento · registered lobbyist employer	$5,900	5
Elevation Entertainment Group Business · La Jolla	$5,900	5
LE Gaming Inc Business · Anaheim	$5,900	2