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James M Gallagher

Assembly Member, State Assembly

In the Legislature

Assembly District 3 R · 2,924 floor votes this session, 17% not voting

Committees they vote in: Water, Parks and Wildlife · Governmental Organization · Housing and Community Development · Elections · Health

Bills they lead: 37 (10 became law) — AB 1438, ACR 112, ACR 153, ACR 16, ACR 37, ACR 51, SCR 117, SCR 119, SCR 121, SCR 95, AB 1000, AB 1091 …

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 446
Surveillance pricing.		No
2025-05-12		THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATED ENTITIES ($507 gifts); CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($167 gifts); Amazon.com Services LLC ($100 gifts); CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($58 gifts)
AB 1776
Cartwright Act: violations.		Not voting
2026-05-27		THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATED ENTITIES ($507 gifts); Amazon.com Services LLC ($100 gifts)
AB 1138
Income and corporate taxes: tax credits: motion pictures.		Not voting
2025-07-03		THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATED ENTITIES ($507 gifts)
SB 630
State parks: real property: acquisitions and leases.		No
2025-09-10		THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATED ENTITIES ($507 gifts)
AB 2319
Personal Income Tax Law: Corporation Tax Law: credits: qualified motion picture: post-production.		No
2026-05-26		THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATED ENTITIES ($507 gifts)
AB 2564
Surveillance pricing.		No
2026-05-27		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($167 gifts); Amazon.com Services LLC ($100 gifts)
AB 1276
Housing developments: ordinances, policies, and standards.		Aye
2025-05-23		CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATION ($155 gifts); CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($58 gifts)
AB 660
Planning and Zoning Law: postentitlement phase permits: Housing Accountability Act.		Aye
2025-06-04		CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATION ($155 gifts); CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($58 gifts)
AB 380
Price gouging.		No
2025-06-04		CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATION ($155 gifts); CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($58 gifts)
AB 1621
Planning and Zoning Law: postentitlement phase permits: Housing Accountability Act.		Aye
2026-04-27		CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATION ($155 gifts); CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($58 gifts)
AB 2418
Local building permits: nonresidential private permitting review.		Aye
2026-05-26		CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATION ($155 gifts); CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($58 gifts)
AB 1710
Permit Streamlining Act: housing development projects: conformity with ordinances and standards.		Aye
2026-05-27		CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATION ($155 gifts); CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($58 gifts)
AB 483
Fixed term installment contracts: early termination fees.		Aye
2025-09-10		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($167 gifts)
AB 1190
Department of Motor Vehicles: private industry partner fees.		Aye
2025-05-19		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($167 gifts)
SB 791
Vehicle dealers: document processing charge.		Aye
2025-09-08		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($167 gifts)
SB 766
California Combating Auto Retail Scams (CARS) Act.		Aye
2025-09-10		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($167 gifts)
SB 682
Environmental health: product safety: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.		No
2025-09-12		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($167 gifts)
SB 646
Prenatal multivitamins.		Aye
2025-09-13		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($167 gifts)
AB 2046
Vehicles: pollution control devices.		Aye
2026-05-21		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($167 gifts)
AB 130
Housing.		Aye
2025-06-30		CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATION ($155 gifts)
AB 1384
Summary proceedings for obtaining possession of real property: procedural requirements.		Aye
2025-09-09		CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATION ($155 gifts)
AB 863
Residential rental properties: language requirements.		Aye
2025-09-04		CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATION ($155 gifts)
AB 747
Service of Process Accountability, Reform and Equity (SPARE) Act.		No
2025-09-11		CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATION ($155 gifts)
AB 1439
Public retirement systems: development projects: labor standards.		No
2026-01-29		CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATION ($155 gifts)
AB 2148
Elementary and secondary education: public school employees: contractors: natural persons.		Aye
2026-05-04		CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATION ($155 gifts)
AB 1857
Unlawfully restrictive covenants: grocery stores and supermarkets.		Aye
2026-05-21		CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATION ($155 gifts)
SB 763
Conspiracy against trade: punishment.		No
2025-09-12		REYES HOLDINGS L.L.C. ($94 gifts); CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($58 gifts)
SB 415
Planning and zoning: logistics use developments: truck routes.		Aye
2025-09-12		REYES HOLDINGS L.L.C. ($94 gifts); CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($58 gifts)
SB 840
Greenhouse gases: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: studies.		No
2025-09-13		CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE ($58 gifts); American Council of Engineering Companies - California ($51 gifts)
AB 322
Precise geolocation information.		Not voting
2025-04-21		Amazon.com Services LLC ($100 gifts)

Form 700 statements

StatementFiledWhat it lists
2026 Leaving office
Assembly Member, State Assembly		2026-07-161 investments, 4 businesses & trusts, 2 income
2025 Annual (amendment)
Assembly Member, State Assembly		2026-03-104 gifts, 1 travel
2025 Annual
Assembly Member, State Assembly		2026-02-261 investments, 4 businesses & trusts, 2 income, 8 gifts, 5 travel
2024 Annual
Assembly Member, State Assembly		2025-02-261 investments, 4 businesses & trusts, 2 income, 11 gifts, 1 travel

Findings

Worth a look Gifts · the statement

Lists $1,521.87 in gifts from Legislative Action California in 2025; the limit from one source is $630

The statement lists 4 gift(s) from Legislative Action California dated in 2025, totalling $1,521.87. The gift limit from a single source was $630 for 2025 (Government Code 89503). The filer's comment on that page: “Reimbursed more than 30 days after receipt”.

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: Legislative Action California $300 2025-09-27 p.2Gifts: Legislative Action California $230 2025-09-28 p.2Gifts: Legislative Action California $90 2025-09-27 p.2Gifts: Legislative Action California $902 2025-09-28 p.2

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 $295.77 in gifts to them in 2025 from 4 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: Amazon.com Services LLC $100 (transportation and refreshments during lab126 tour); CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATION $86.60 (lunch); CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE $58 (lunch); American Council of Engineering Companies - California $51.17 (legislative reception).

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).
Amazon.com Services LLC $100
  • 2025-01-22 Transportation and refreshments during Lab126 tour at Amazon.com Services LLC $100 · lobbyist employer report
CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATION $86.60
CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE $58
  • 2025-02-24 LUNCH at RURAL COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA $58 (of $2,030 for everyone it lists) · lobbyist employer report
American Council of Engineering Companies - California $51.17
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 $79.12 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: PERSONAL INSURANCE FEDERATION OF CALIFORNIA $79.12 (reception).

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).
PERSONAL INSURANCE FEDERATION OF CALIFORNIA $79.12
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 Late or missing · the statement

Filed 7 days after its due date (2026-07-09)

This leaving statement for Assembly Member was due 2026-07-09 and filed 2026-07-16.

What to check
  • Whether the due date shown was extended, or the statement was filed on paper first.
  • The filing officer decides whether a late fine applies.
Rule: Filed after the due date
“The filing officer who retains originally-signed or electronically filed statements of economic interests may impose on an individual a fine for any statement that is filed late. The fine is $10 per”Form 700 (2025/2026), Late Filing ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Context Travel payments · the statement

Lists $15,024.48 in travel paid by others (5 payments)

Largest: Meals and Lodging ($5,226.02, Independent Voter Project), Meals and Lodging ($4,295.17, Governor's Cup Foundation), Hotels and Flights to Colorado Springs, CO ($3,039.21, Republican Legislative Campaign Committee). 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: Independent Voter Project $5,226 p.8Travel: Governor's Cup Foundation $4,295 p.9Travel: Republican Legislative Campaign Committee $3,039 p.8

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 Amendments · the statement

Amends an earlier statement

This is an amendment. The original stays on file; what changed is in the amendment itself.

What to check
  • Compare with the original statement for the same year.
Rule: An amended statement

How this rule works

Reported by lobbying interests

What lobbyist employers, lobbyists and lobbying firms told the Secretary of State they spent on James M Gallagher since 2024: $1,254 across 11 items from 10 sources. Each amount is their share as the report gives it. Matched by name and office.

Reported byWhat, whenTo them
WALT DISNEY COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATED ENTITIES; THE
$507 in all		CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE TICKETS at THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY · 2024-11-13 · report$507
CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION
$167 in all		FOOD AND DRINK at REVIVAL · 2024-03-20 · report$167.30
CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATION
$155 in all		LUNCH at HYATT REGENCY SACRAMENTO · 2025-03-19 · report$86.60
FOOD AND BEVERAGE at JACKSON CATERING & EVENTS · 2024-08-13 · report$68.26
Amazon.com Services LLC
$100 in all		Transportation and refreshments during Lab126 tour at Amazon.com Services LLC · 2025-01-22 · report$100
Reyes Holdings L.L.C.
$94 in all		Food, Beverage, Glassware at Cafeteria 15L · 2024-08-20 · report$94
PERSONAL INSURANCE FEDERATION OF CALIFORNIA
$79 in all		RECEPTION at THE SUTTER CLUB · 2024-03-11 · report$79.12
CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE
$58 in all		LUNCH at RURAL COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA · 2025-02-24 · report$58
American Council of Engineering Companies - California
$51 in all		Legislative Reception at Tequila Museo Mayahuel · 2025-05-01 · report$51.17
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WATER ASSOCIATION
$37 in all		GIFT at SKYLINE PICTURE FRAMING · 2024-03-08 · report$37.44
CLARISSA KAM BEZDEK
$5 in all		ARRANGED FOOD & BEVERAGE at MONTNA FARMS · 2026-01-14 · report$5.45

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