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Buffy Wicks

Assembly Member, State Assembly

Running in 2026: State Assembly Member District 14 (June 2) “Assemblymember/Mom” · State Assembly Member District 14 (November 3) “Assemblymember/Mom”

In the Legislature

Assembly District 14 D · 4,006 floor votes this session, 6% not voting

Committees they vote in: Appropriations · Natural Resources · Housing and Community Development · Privacy and Consumer Protection · Judiciary

Bills they lead: 78 (58 became law) — AB 1021, AB 1043, AB 1127, AB 1156, AB 1340, AB 1533, AB 1679, AB 1709, AB 1732, AB 1738, AB 1740, AB 1743 …

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 1776 Cartwright Act: violations.	Aye 2026-08-30	DoorDash, Inc. ($23,000 campaign); CVS HEALTH ($11,800 campaign); UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ($11,800 campaign); WASTE MANAGEMENT & AFFILIATED ENTITIES ($8,000 campaign) and 10 more
AB 1018 Automated decision systems.	Aye 2025-06-02	UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ($11,800 campaign); AIRBNB, INC. ($11,800 campaign); KPMG LLP ($8,000 campaign); AT&T Services Inc. and its Affiliates ($7,000 campaign) and 11 more
AB 1609 Customer service chatbots.	Aye 2026-08-31	DoorDash, Inc. ($23,000 campaign); UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ($11,800 campaign); CVS HEALTH ($11,800 campaign); AT&T Services Inc. and its Affiliates ($7,000 campaign) and 1 more
SB 122 Taxation.	Aye 2026-06-15	DoorDash, Inc. ($23,000 campaign); KPMG LLP ($8,000 campaign); ERNST & YOUNG LLP ($7,000 campaign); NOVARTIS SERVICES, INC ($2,000 campaign) and 3 more
AB 2564 Surveillance pricing.	Aye 2026-05-27	DoorDash, Inc. ($23,000 campaign); UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ($11,800 campaign); AT&T Services Inc. and its Affiliates ($7,000 campaign)
AB 1405 Artificial intelligence: auditors: registration.	Aye 2026-08-30	Anthropic PBC ($11,800 campaign); KPMG LLP ($8,000 campaign); ERNST & YOUNG LLP ($7,000 campaign); Meta Platforms, Inc. ($5,900 campaign) and 1 more
AB 1883 Workplace surveillance tools.	Aye 2026-08-30	DoorDash, Inc. ($23,000 campaign); UNITED AIRLINES ($13,202 campaign)
AB 578 Food delivery platforms: customer service.	Aye 2025-09-04	DoorDash, Inc. ($23,000 campaign); UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ($11,800 campaign)
AB 33 Autonomous vehicles.	Aye 2025-05-29	DoorDash, Inc. ($23,000 campaign); UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ($11,800 campaign)
SB 7 Employment: automated decision systems.	Aye 2025-09-11	DoorDash, Inc. ($23,000 campaign); UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ($11,800 campaign)
SB 947 Employment: automated decision systems.	Aye 2026-08-30	DoorDash, Inc. ($23,000 campaign); UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ($11,800 campaign)
AB 2023 Companion chatbots: children’s safety.	Aye 2026-05-26	Anthropic PBC ($11,800 campaign); KPMG LLP ($8,000 campaign); ERNST & YOUNG LLP ($7,000 campaign); Meta Platforms, Inc. ($5,900 campaign)
SB 813 Independent verification organizations.	Aye 2026-08-30	Anthropic PBC ($11,800 campaign); KPMG LLP ($8,000 campaign); ERNST & YOUNG LLP ($7,000 campaign); Meta Platforms, Inc. ($5,900 campaign)
SB 1119 Companion chatbots: children’s safety.	Aye 2026-08-31	Anthropic PBC ($11,800 campaign); KPMG LLP ($8,000 campaign); ERNST & YOUNG LLP ($7,000 campaign); Meta Platforms, Inc. ($5,900 campaign)
AB 52 Farmer equity: advisory committees.	Aye 2026-01-26	Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians ($11,800 campaign); Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($8,000 campaign); BARONA BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($5,000 behested); AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS ($4,000 campaign) and 1 more
AB 1331 Workplace surveillance.	Aye 2026-08-31	UNITED AIRLINES ($13,202 campaign); PANDA RESTAURANT GROUP, INC. ($5,900 campaign); ZURICH AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY ($3,000 campaign); SOUTHWEST AIRLINES ($3,000 campaign) and 2 more
AB 446 Surveillance pricing.	Aye 2025-05-12	UNITED AIRLINES ($13,202 campaign); UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ($11,800 campaign); SOUTHWEST AIRLINES ($3,000 campaign)
AB 130 Housing.	Aye 2025-06-30	California State Council of Laborers ($11,800 campaign); Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($8,000 campaign); BARONA BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($5,000 behested); TEJON INDIAN TRIBE ($2,500 campaign)
SB 404 Hazardous materials: metal shredding facilities.	Aye 2025-09-12	California State Council of Laborers ($11,800 campaign); WASTE MANAGEMENT & AFFILIATED ENTITIES ($8,000 campaign); SA RECYCLING, LLC ($2,500 campaign); Radius Recycling ($2,500 campaign) and 1 more
SB 54 Court fee waivers: veterans.	Aye 2025-09-08	WASTE MANAGEMENT & AFFILIATED ENTITIES ($8,000 campaign); BLUE DIAMOND GROWERS ($7,500 campaign); AMERICAN BEVERAGE ASSOCIATION ($5,900 campaign); DART CONTAINER CORPORATION ($4,000 campaign) and 1 more
AB 1485 Property tax: documentary transfer tax: exemptions: Native American tribes.	Aye 2026-01-29	Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians ($11,800 campaign); Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($8,000 campaign); AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS ($4,000 campaign); TEJON INDIAN TRIBE ($2,500 campaign)
SB 415 Planning and zoning: logistics use developments: truck routes.	Aye 2025-09-12	UNITED AIRLINES ($13,202 campaign); California State Council of Laborers ($11,800 campaign)
SB 259 Elections: vote by mail ballots.	Aye 2026-08-28	UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ($11,800 campaign); AT&T Services Inc. and its Affiliates ($7,000 campaign); Meta Platforms, Inc. ($5,900 campaign)
SB 594 Short-Term Rental Facilitator Act of 2026.	Aye 2026-08-20	AIRBNB, INC. ($11,800 campaign); WASTE MANAGEMENT & AFFILIATED ENTITIES ($8,000 campaign); AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS ($4,000 campaign)
SB 420 Property tax: welfare exemption: detention facilities.	Aye 2026-08-25	Anthropic PBC ($11,800 campaign); Meta Platforms, Inc. ($5,900 campaign); ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION ($5,900 campaign)
AB 671 Accelerated restaurant building plan approval: California Retail Food Code: tenant improvements.	Aye 2025-09-09	DoorDash, Inc. ($23,000 campaign)
AB 947 Agriculture: Cannella Environmental Farming Act of 1995.	Aye 2025-06-02	DoorDash, Inc. ($23,000 campaign)
AB 1640 California Restaurant Reservation AntiPiracy Act.	Aye 2026-08-28	DoorDash, Inc. ($23,000 campaign)
AB 2348 Medi-Cal: enhanced care management and community supports.	Aye 2026-08-25	DoorDash, Inc. ($23,000 campaign)
AB 1734 Count Hunger Act.	Aye 2026-05-26	DoorDash, Inc. ($23,000 campaign)

Form 700 statements

Statement	Filed	What it lists
2025 Annual Assembly Member, State Assembly	2026-02-26	1 businesses & trusts, 2 income, 9 gifts, 3 travel
2024 Annual Assembly Member, State Assembly	2025-03-03	1 businesses & trusts, 2 income, 15 gifts, 4 travel

Findings

Worth a look Gifts · the statement

Lists $593.48 in gifts from California Democratic Party in 2024; the limit from one source is $590

The statement lists 6 gift(s) from California Democratic Party dated in 2024, totalling $593.48. The gift limit from a single source was $590 for 2024 (Government Code 89503).

What to check

Whether part of it was returned, or paid back, in time to not count (the filer's comments often say).
Whether the gifts are from one source (a couple is two sources) or are of a kind the limit doesn't cover (family, wedding gifts and the like).
The FPPC's gift fact sheet and Regulation 18940.2 for the exceptions.

Gifts: California Democratic Party $27 2024-01-16 p.4 Gifts: California Democratic Party $67 2024-01-17 p.4 Gifts: California Democratic Party $65 2024-01-25 p.4 Gifts: California Democratic Party $71 2024-03-19 p.4 Gifts: California Democratic Party $200 2024-11-06 p.4 Gifts: California Democratic Party $165 2024-11-07 p.4

Rule: Gifts from one source over the yearly limit

“The gift limit increased to $630 for calendar years 2025 and 2026. The gift limit in calendar year 2024 was $590.”Form 700 (2025/2026), What's New ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Worth a look Lobbying · the statement

Lobbying reports name $82.90 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 $82.90 (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).

EQUALITY CALIFORNIA $82.90

2024-02-28 FOOD / BEVERAGES at GOLDEN 1 CENTER $82.90 · 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 Behested payments

Of $3,298,000 paid at their request since 2024: 2 sources ($15,000) are registered lobbyist employers

Payments made at their request (Form 803) from sources that also appear in Cal-Access: Pacific Gas and Electric Company ($10,000 to GIFFORDS Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence; lobbyist employer); Barona Band of Mission Indians ($5,000 to Peralta Elementary School; lobbyist employer).

What to check

Context: behested payments are legal and public; this puts two public records side by side.
Whether the official later acted on matters involving these sources.
The full Form 803 reports (available from the FPPC on request).

Pacific Gas and Electric Company paid $10,000 to GIFFORDS Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence · registered lobbyist employer
Barona Band of Mission Indians paid $5,000 to Peralta Elementary School · registered lobbyist employer

Rule: Behested payments from donors or lobbyist employers

“Unlike gifts and contributions, there are no limits on the amount of payments an official may behest.”FPPC, Reporting Behested Payments – Form 803 ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Context Lobbying

69 of their donors and benefactors lobbied on 412 bills they voted on

Employers that lobbied on bills they voted on (as their lobbying reports name the bills) and that gave $338,852 to their campaign, $96 in gifts reported by lobbying interests, $5,000 in payments at their request. Largest: DoorDash, Inc. ($23,000); UNITED AIRLINES ($13,202); CVS HEALTH ($11,800); California State Council of Laborers ($11,800); AIRBNB, INC. ($11,800). They voted aye on 403 of the 412.

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 Buffy Wicks reported others paying at their request (FPPC Form 803) since 2024: $3,298,000 in 12 payments to 11 recipients. Officials report a source that pays $5,000 or more in a year; there is no limit.

Largest recipients: The Regents of the University of California, on behalf of its Berkeley Campus $3,000,000 · Bay Area Council Foundation $250,000 · Assembly International Relations Foundation $15,000 · GIFFORDS Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence $10,000 · Peralta Elementary School $5,000

Paid by	To, for	Amount
Laura and John Arnold Foundation Houston	The Regents of the University of California, on behalf of its Berkeley Campus · Research and facilitating Legislative · 2026-05-04	$3,000,000
Action Now Initiative, LLC Houston	Bay Area Council Foundation · research and facilitating Legislative · 2024-10-23	$250,000
Pacific Gas and Electric Company Oakland · registered lobbyist employer · campaign donor	GIFFORDS Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence · General support Charitable · 2024-07-23	$10,000
Abundance Network Education San Francisco	Assembly International Relations Foundation · Policy study trip Legislative · 2025-10-09	$10,000
Barona Band of Mission Indians Lakeside · registered lobbyist employer · campaign donor	Peralta Elementary School · Funds would go towards improving education programs that benefit constituents in AD-14 Governmental · 2024-08-22	$5,000
California YIMBY Education Fund Sacramento	Assembly International Relations Foundation · Policy study trip Legislative · 2025-10-21	$5,000
Women in California Leadership Sacramento	Sheila Mckinney · Recipient of Minerva Scholarship award Charitable · 2024-07-29	$3,000
Women in California Leadership Sacramento	Xiaomei Song · Recipient of Minerva Scholarship award Charitable · 2024-07-29	$3,000
Women in California Leadership Sacramento	Irene Kou · Recipient of Minerva Scholarship award Charitable · 2025-08-04	$3,000
Women in California Leadership Sacramento	Mylani Sonico · Recipient of Minerva Scholarship award Charitable · 2025-08-04	$3,000
Women in California Leadership Sacramento	Jacquelyn Hernandez · Minerva Scholarship recipient Charitable · 2026-08-04	$3,000
Women in California Leadership Sacramento	Sydney Craig · Minerva Scholarship recipient Charitable · 2026-08-04	$3,000

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 Buffy Wicks since 2024: $96 across 2 items from 2 sources. Each amount is their share as the report gives it. Matched by name and office.

Reported by	What, when	To them
EQUALITY CALIFORNIA $83 in all	FOOD / BEVERAGES at GOLDEN 1 CENTER · 2024-02-28 · report	$82.90
MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC. $13 in all	HAT at BROADWAY MARKETING LTD. · 2024-02-26 · report	$12.79

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Campaign money: State Assembly Member District 14

$2,475,873itemized, 548 contributions

$0from the candidate (incl. loans)

Plus $58,000 in 15 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).

SEIU California State Council Small Contributor Committee $11,800 2026-10-06 · United Nurses Association of California / Union of Health Care Professionals PAC (UNAC PAC) $7,500 2026-10-05 · American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local No. 685 PAC $5,900 2026-09-28 · California Dental Association PAC (CDA PAC) $5,900 2026-10-07 · California State Council of Laborers $5,900 2026-10-07 · CEMEX Materials LLC (Responsible Officer: Cathy Mann) $2,500 2026-09-30 · California Pawnbrokers Association PAC $2,500 2026-09-24 · Calpine Corporation $2,500 2026-10-05 · State Coalition of Probation Organizations PAC $2,500 2026-10-02 · Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund $2,000 2026-10-06

Where their outside money comes from

10%44%30%12%

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

Plus $914,967 of their own money and from their earlier campaigns' committees. Compare with all state candidates →

How it was spent: $1,750,854

Transfers to their other committees$916,145

Consultants$173,293

Contributions to others$172,465

Fundraising events$148,073

Candidate travel and meals$95,108

Legal and accounting$80,995

Polling$40,000

Meetings and appearances$25,153

Internet and email$21,830

Staff salaries$19,621

Largest payees: Buffy Wicks for Assembly 2026 $911,145 Transfers to their other committees · Bertolina & Barnato $120,936 Fundraising events · Bearstar Strategies $90,315 Consultants · Derek Lee $70,793 Staff salaries · California Democratic Party $49,615 Filing and ballot fees · Salim Shariff Strategies $46,506 Consultants · David Binder Research $40,000 Polling · United Airlines, Inc. $27,424 Internet and email

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
Buffy Wicks for Assembly 2024 Oakland	Committee	$911,145.30
Building a Stronger Future for California PAC, sponsored by Western States Regional Council of Carpenters Sacramento	Small contributor cmte	$23,600
California New Car Dealers Association Issues PAC Sacramento	RCP	$20,000
DoorDash Inc. San Francisco	Business/other	$20,000
Comcast Philadelphia	Business/other	$19,300
California Professional Firefighters Sacramento	Small contributor cmte	$14,800
California Broadband & Video Association Sacramento	Business/other	$14,296.61
United Airlines, Inc. Chicago	Business/other	$13,201.55
California Chamber of Commerce PAC AKA ChamberPAC Sacramento	Committee	$12,934.06
Airbnb, Inc. San Francisco	Business/other	$11,800
Anheuser-Busch Sacramento	Business/other	$11,800
Anthropic PBC San Francisco	Business/other	$11,800
Bay Area Legislative Leaders PAC Sacramento	Committee	$11,800
Blue Shield of California Oakland	Business/other	$11,800
CALPAC - California Medical Association PAC Sacramento	Small contributor cmte	$11,800

Committees: Buffy Wicks for Assembly 2026, WICKS HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR EVERYONE BALLOT MEASURE COMMITTEE; BUFFY, WICKS FOR ASSEMBLY 2020; BUFFY, Buffy Wicks for Assembly 2022, Buffy Wicks for Assembly 2018, Buffy Wicks for Assembly 2024. From the Secretary of State's Cal-Access export; reports covering 2025–2026.

Outside spending for and against them

$265,230spent supporting them

$0spent opposing them

Spender		Amount
Uber Innovation Political Action Committee general · latest report	for	$265,230

Independent expenditures reported within 24 hours (Form 496), from 2025. The candidate doesn't control them.

Their donors also gave to

Their largest donors who also funded other 2026 state candidates.

Donor	To them	Candidates funded
Building a Stronger Future for California PAC, sponsored by Western States Regional Council of Carpenters Labor union · Sacramento	$23,600	41
DoorDash, Inc. Business · San Francisco · registered lobbyist employer	$23,000	27
California New Car Dealers Association Issues PAC Group or PAC · Sacramento	$20,000	6
Anheuser Busch Companies Business · Saint Louis · registered lobbyist employer	$19,300	81
Comcast Business · Philadelphia	$19,300	6
California Professional Firefighters Labor union · Sacramento · registered lobbyist employer	$14,800	6
California Broadband & Video Association Group or PAC · Sacramento · registered lobbyist employer	$14,297	13
United Airlines Business · Chicago · registered lobbyist employer	$13,202	24
California Chamber of Commerce PAC AKA ChamberPAC Group or PAC · Sacramento	$12,934	50
Airbnb, Inc. Business · San Francisco · registered lobbyist employer	$11,800	87
Bay Area Legislative Leaders PAC Group or PAC · Sacramento	$11,800	18
California Building Industry Association PAC Group or PAC · Sacramento	$11,800	74
California New Car Dealers Association PAC Group or PAC · Sacramento	$11,800	106
California State Council of Laborers Labor union · Sacramento · registered lobbyist employer	$11,800	2
CALPAC - California Medical Association PAC Group or PAC · Sacramento	$11,800	82