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Jacqueline V Irwin

Assembly Member, State Assembly

In the Legislature

Assembly District 42 D · 4,006 floor votes this session, 9% not voting

Committees they vote in: Rules · Privacy and Consumer Protection · Utilities and Energy · Business and Professions · Agriculture · Military and Veterans Affairs · Higher Education

Bills they lead: 57 (39 became law) — AB 1175, AB 1207, AB 1267, AB 1344, AB 1423, AB 1534, AB 1626, AB 1665, AB 1842, AB 1847, AB 1977, AB 1985 …

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 1776
Cartwright Act: violations.		Aye
2026-08-30		RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ($810 gifts); PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($170 gifts); LOS ANGELES COUNTY BUSINESS FEDERATION (BIZFED) ($118 gifts); MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC. ($37 gifts) and 3 more
SB 1000
California AI Transparency Act.		Aye
2026-08-25		RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ($810 gifts); WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY (FKA WARNERMEDIA AND WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.) ($170 gifts); OpenAI OPCO, LLC ($44 gifts); MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC. ($37 gifts) and 2 more
AB 412
Generative artificial intelligence: training data: copyrighted materials.		Not voting
2025-05-12		RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ($810 gifts); LOS ANGELES COUNTY BUSINESS FEDERATION (BIZFED) ($118 gifts); OpenAI OPCO, LLC ($44 gifts); MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC. ($37 gifts) and 2 more
AB 853
California AI Transparency Act.		Aye
2025-09-12		RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ($810 gifts); OpenAI OPCO, LLC ($44 gifts); MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC. ($37 gifts); Microsoft Corporation ($15 gifts)
AB 2713
California AI Transparency Act: system provenance data.		Aye
2026-08-28		RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ($810 gifts); OpenAI OPCO, LLC ($44 gifts); MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC. ($37 gifts); Microsoft Corporation ($15 gifts)
AB 325
Cartwright Act: violations.		Aye
2025-09-12		RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ($810 gifts); MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC. ($37 gifts)
SB 763
Conspiracy against trade: punishment.		Aye
2025-09-12		RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ($810 gifts); MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC. ($37 gifts)
SB 25
Antitrust: premerger notification.		Aye
2026-01-22		RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ($810 gifts); MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC. ($37 gifts)
AB 1921
Digital games: ordinary use.		Not voting
2026-05-27		RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ($810 gifts); Microsoft Corporation ($15 gifts)
SB 863
Taxation.		Aye
2025-09-04		RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ($810 gifts)
SB 11
Artificial intelligence technology.		Aye
2025-09-12		RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ($810 gifts)
AB 1720
Ticket sellers.		Not voting
2026-05-28		RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ($810 gifts)
AB 379
Crimes: prostitution.		Aye
2025-05-15		EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($249 gifts)
AB 309
Hypodermic needles and syringes.		Aye
2025-05-15		EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($249 gifts)
AB 715
Educational equity: discrimination: antisemitism prevention.		Aye
2025-09-13		EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($249 gifts)
AB 449
Civil Rights Department: antidiscrimination campaigns.		Aye
2025-09-09		EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($249 gifts)
AB 678
Interagency Council on Homelessness.		Aye
2025-09-11		EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($249 gifts)
AB 822
Commission on the State of Hate.		Aye
2025-06-02		EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($249 gifts)
AB 908
Instructional materials: compliance review.		Aye
2025-06-02		EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($249 gifts)
AB 82
Health care: legally protected health care activity.		Aye
2025-09-10		EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($249 gifts)
AB 727
Pupil and student safety: identification cards.		Aye
2025-09-10		EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($249 gifts)
AB 554
Health care coverage: antiretroviral drugs, drug devices, and drug products.		Aye
2025-09-10		EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($249 gifts)
AB 1084
Change of name and gender and sex identifier.		Aye
2025-09-13		EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($249 gifts)
SB 504
Communicable diseases: HIV reporting.		Aye
2025-09-08		EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($249 gifts)
SB 278
Health data: HIV test results.		Aye
2025-09-08		EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($249 gifts)
SB 497
Legally protected health care activity.		Aye
2025-09-09		EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($249 gifts)
SB 590
Paid family leave: eligibility: care for designated persons.		Aye
2025-09-09		EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($249 gifts)
SB 418
Health care coverage: prescription hormone therapy and nondiscrimination.		Aye
2025-09-10		EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($249 gifts)
SB 450
Adoption.		Aye
2025-09-10		EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($249 gifts)
SB 59
Change of name or gender and sex identifier.		Aye
2025-09-12		EQUALITY CALIFORNIA ($249 gifts)

Form 700 statements

StatementFiledWhat it lists
2025 Annual
Assembly Member, State Assembly		2026-03-0224 investments, 2 income, 14 gifts, 9 travel
2024 Annual
Assembly Member, State Assembly		2025-03-0318 investments, 1 income, 45 gifts, 9 travel

Findings

Worth a look Lobbying · the statement

Lobbying reports name $630 in gifts to them in 2025 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 2025, $50 or more from each of these sources, none named among the statement's gifts or travel: RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA $630 (grammy ticket).

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).
RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA $630
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 $248.70 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 $248.70 (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 $248.70
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 $20,172.36 in travel paid by others (9 payments)

Largest: Norway ($9,918.67, CA Foundation on the Environment & the Economy), Boston, MA ($2,468.88, California Biotechnology Foundation), San Diego, CA ($2,289.04, Assoc. of CA Life and Health Insurance Companies). 9 of 9 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: CA Foundation on the Environment & the Economy $9,919 p.9Travel: California Biotechnology Foundation $2,469 p.11Travel: Assoc. of CA Life and Health Insurance Companies $2,289 p.10

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 $12,081.80 in travel paid by others (9 payments)

Largest: Maui, Hawaii ($5,443.10, Independent Voter Project), Napa, California ($1,075, California's Technology and Innovation Economy), Quebec, Canada ($1,014.85, National Conference of State Legislatures). 4 of 9 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: Independent Voter Project $5,443 p.13Travel: California's Technology and Innovation Economy $1,075 p.12Travel: National Conference of State Legislatures $1,015 p.14

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 Jacqueline V Irwin reported others paying at their request (FPPC Form 803) since 2024: $41,511 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: Lola Rose Forbes-Black $6,000 · Food Share of Ventura County $5,000 · Bon Appetit $4,511 · Emma Blanck $4,000 · Mercedes Cacho $4,000

Paid byTo, forAmount
Women in California Leadership
Sacramento		Food Share of Ventura County · Donation to non-profit organization
Charitable · 2025-11-10		$5,000
Women in California Leadership
Sacramento		Bon Appetit · Women of the Year event
Charitable · 2024-07-24		$4,511
California Legislative Central Coast Caucus Foundation
Los Angeles		Emma Blanck · Scholarship.
Charitable · 2026-06-05		$4,000
California Legislative Central Coast Caucus Foundation
Los Angeles		Mercedes Cacho · Scholarship.
Charitable · 2026-06-05		$4,000
Women in California Leadership
Sacramento		Blanca Estela Alba · Recipient of the Minerva Scholarship award
Charitable · 2024-07-29		$3,000
Women in Leadership
Sacramento		Sarah Abdelmalek · Recipient of Minerva Scholarship award
Charitable · 2024-07-29		$3,000
California Legislative Central Coast Caucus
Los Angeles		Jacob David McDonough · Scholarship
Charitable · 2025-07-21		$3,000
Women in California Leadership
Sacramento		Chloe Um · Scholarship
Charitable · 2025-08-04		$3,000
California Legislative Central Coast Caucus
Los Angeles		Lola Rose Forbes-Black · Scholarship
Charitable · 2025-07-21		$3,000
Women in California Leadership
Sacramento		Lola Rose Forbes-Black · Scholarship
Charitable · 2025-08-04		$3,000
Women in California Leadership
Sacramento		Olivia Lee · Minerva Scholarship recipient.
Charitable · 2026-08-04		$3,000
Women in California Leadership
Sacramento		Alison Jimenez · 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 Jacqueline V Irwin since 2024: $4,070 across 15 items from 13 sources. Each amount is their share as the report gives it. Matched by name and office.

Reported byWhat, whenTo them
Association of California Life & Health Insurance Companies
$2,289 in all		Food, Beverage & Lodging (Speaker Exception) at The Lodge at Torrey Pines · 2025-10-10 · report$2,289.04
RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
$810 in all		GRAMMY TICKET at RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA · 2025-02-02 · report$630
FOOD AND BEVERAGE at KIMPTON LA PEER HOTEL · 2024-02-03 · report$180
EQUALITY CALIFORNIA
$249 in all		FOOD / BEVERAGES at GOLDEN 1 CENTER · 2024-02-28 · report$248.70
PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA
$170 in all		RECEPTION at MULVANEY'S B&L · 2026-05-11 · report$170.31
WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY (FKA WARNERMEDIA AND WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.)
$170 in all		FILM SCREENING at WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY · 2026-06-25 · report$74.56
SCREENING at WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY · 2024-09-03 · report$95
LOS ANGELES COUNTY BUSINESS FEDERATION (BIZFED)
$118 in all		FOOD AND BEVERAGE at CHEVY CHASE COUNTRY CLUB · 2026-04-17 · report$118.48
Sempra and its Affiliates: San Diego Gas & Electric Company and Southern California Gas Company
$93 in all		Lunch with Eugene Mitchell and Kent Kauss during IVP Conference at Morimoto Maui at the Andaz · 2024-11-20 · report$92.56
Port of Long Beach
$45 in all		Reception at The Climate Group North America · 2025-09-23 · report$45
OpenAI OPCO, LLC
$44 in all		Lunch at OpenAI · 2025-05-22 · report$43.72
MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION INC.
$37 in all		FOOD / BEVERAGES at P.F. CHANG'S CHINA BISTRO · 2024-01-26 · report$37.38
Amazon.com Services LLC
$25 in all		Swag at Amazon.com Services LLC · 2024-08-06 · report$25
Microsoft Corporation
$15 in all		Lunch at Calif Chicken Catering · 2025-10-15 · report$14.58
Salesforce, Inc.
$6 in all		Food & Beverages at Salesforce Tower · 2025-05-22 · report$5.85

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