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Jasmeet Bains

Assembly Member, State Assembly

In the Legislature

Assembly District 35 D · 4,006 floor votes this session, 10% not voting

Committees they vote in: Business and Professions · Water, Parks and Wildlife · Emergency Management · Revenue and Taxation · Aging and Long Term Care

Bills they lead: 34 (7 became law) — AB 1046, AB 1069, AB 1094, AB 1134, AB 2273, AB 2274, ACR 164, AB 1057, AB 1068, AB 1088, AB 1124, AB 1348 …

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 483
Fixed term installment contracts: early termination fees.		Not voting
2025-09-10		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($733 gifts)
AB 446
Surveillance pricing.		Not voting
2025-05-12		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($733 gifts)
AB 1190
Department of Motor Vehicles: private industry partner fees.		Aye
2025-05-19		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($733 gifts)
SB 791
Vehicle dealers: document processing charge.		Not voting
2025-09-08		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($733 gifts)
SB 766
California Combating Auto Retail Scams (CARS) Act.		Aye
2025-09-10		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($733 gifts)
SB 682
Environmental health: product safety: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.		Not voting
2025-09-12		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($733 gifts)
SB 646
Prenatal multivitamins.		Aye
2025-09-13		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($733 gifts)
AB 2046
Vehicles: pollution control devices.		Aye
2026-05-21		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($733 gifts)
AB 2564
Surveillance pricing.		Not voting
2026-05-27		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($733 gifts)
SB 690
Crimes: invasion of privacy.		Aye
2026-08-28		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($733 gifts)
SB 615
Vehicle traction batteries.		Not voting
2026-08-30		CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ($733 gifts)
AB 881
Public resources: transportation of carbon dioxide.		Aye
2025-05-19		CALIFORNIA RESOURCES CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES ($202 gifts)
AB 237
Crimes: threats.		Aye
2025-06-03		CALIFORNIA RESOURCES CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES ($202 gifts)
SB 614
Public resources: transportation of carbon dioxide.		Aye
2025-09-12		CALIFORNIA RESOURCES CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES ($202 gifts)
AB 233
Alcoholic beverages: licensees.		Aye
2025-04-24		REYES HOLDINGS L.L.C. ($94 gifts)
AB 720
Beverages: alcohol permits: container labeling.		Aye
2025-09-13		REYES HOLDINGS L.L.C. ($94 gifts)
AB 663
Hydrofluorocarbon gases: sale and distribution prohibition: exemptions.		Aye
2025-09-04		REYES HOLDINGS L.L.C. ($94 gifts)
AB 1008
Alcoholic beverages: licenses: County of San Luis Obispo.		Aye
2025-09-03		REYES HOLDINGS L.L.C. ($94 gifts)
AB 1246
Alcoholic beverages: distilled spirits.		Aye
2025-09-13		REYES HOLDINGS L.L.C. ($94 gifts)
AB 592
Business: retail food.		Aye
2025-09-08		REYES HOLDINGS L.L.C. ($94 gifts)
AB 344
Alcoholic beverages: beer price posting and marketing regulations: definitions.		Aye
2025-05-19		REYES HOLDINGS L.L.C. ($94 gifts)
AB 445
Alcoholic beverages.		Aye
2025-09-12		REYES HOLDINGS L.L.C. ($94 gifts)
AB 828
Alcoholic beverage control: neighborhood-restricted special on-sale general licenses.		Aye
2025-09-09		REYES HOLDINGS L.L.C. ($94 gifts)
AB 1332
Medicinal cannabis: shipments.		Aye
2025-09-11		REYES HOLDINGS L.L.C. ($94 gifts)
AB 325
Cartwright Act: violations.		Not voting
2025-09-12		REYES HOLDINGS L.L.C. ($94 gifts)
AB 770
Advertising displays: City of Los Angeles: exemption: ordinance.		Aye
2025-09-12		REYES HOLDINGS L.L.C. ($94 gifts)
AB 8
Cannabis: cannabinoids: industrial hemp.		Aye
2025-09-13		REYES HOLDINGS L.L.C. ($94 gifts)
AB 509
Alcoholic beverages: minors.		Aye
2025-09-08		REYES HOLDINGS L.L.C. ($94 gifts)
AB 899
Beverage containers: recycled glass: market development.		Aye
2025-09-09		REYES HOLDINGS L.L.C. ($94 gifts)
AB 692
Employment: contracts in restraint of trade.		Not voting
2025-09-11		REYES HOLDINGS L.L.C. ($94 gifts)

Form 700 statements

StatementFiledWhat it lists
2025 Annual
Assembly Member, State Assembly		2026-03-021 income, 21 gifts, 4 travel
2024 Annual
Assembly Member, State Assembly		2025-03-031 income, 15 gifts, 2 travel

Findings

Worth a look Lobbying · the statement

Lobbying reports name $202.30 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: CALIFORNIA RESOURCES CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES $202.30 (dinner).

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).
CALIFORNIA RESOURCES CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES $202.30
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 $9,853.92 in travel paid by others (4 payments)

Largest: Taiwan ($7,945, Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Mexico City, Mexico ($1,316.77, The Councilf of State Governments- West), Jalisco, Mexico ($533.75, San Diego Co. & Communities of Interest Legislative Caucus). 4 of 4 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: Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs $7,945 p.6Travel: The Councilf of State Governments- West $1,317 p.6Travel: San Diego Co. & Communities of Interest Legislative Caucus $534 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

Context Travel payments · the statement

Lists $5,206.87 in travel paid by others (2 payments)

Largest: spanish bay inn pebble beach ($2,712.84, Governors cup foundation inc), Guadalajara ($2,494.03, california border issues project). 2 of 2 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: Governors cup foundation inc $2,713 p.6Travel: california border issues project $2,494 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 Jasmeet Bains reported others paying at their request (FPPC Form 803) since 2024: $16,000 in 3 payments to 3 recipients. Officials report a source that pays $5,000 or more in a year; there is no limit.

Largest recipients: Community Action Partnership of Kern $10,000 · Lesly Garcia $3,000 · Emma Tinkle $3,000

Paid byTo, forAmount
Chevron USA, Inc
Sacramento · campaign donor		Community Action Partnership of Kern · The behested payment was used for the 2024 Annual Turkey Drive.
Charitable · 2024-11-19		$10,000
Women in California Leadership
Sacramento		Lesly Garcia · Minerva Scholarship
Charitable · 2025-08-04		$3,000
Women in California Leadership
Sacramento		Emma Tinkle · Minerva Scholarship
Charitable · 2025-08-04		$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 Jasmeet Bains since 2024: $1,138 across 9 items from 7 sources. Each amount is their share as the report gives it. Matched by name and office.

Reported byWhat, whenTo them
CALIFORNIA NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION
$733 in all		FOOD AND BEVERAGE at MULVANEY'S B & L · 2026-04-06 · report$209.68
FOOD & DRINKS at ELLA DINING ROOM AND BAR · 2025-03-25 · report$203.93
FOOD & DRINKS at ECHO & RIG · 2025-03-05 · report$319.56
CALIFORNIA RESOURCES CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
$202 in all		DINNER at ELLA DINING ROOM · 2024-04-08 · report$202.30
Reyes Holdings L.L.C.
$94 in all		Food, Beverage, Glassware at Cafeteria 15L · 2024-08-20 · report$94
CALIFORNIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
$47 in all		Dinner at Lucas Public Affairs · 2024-05-15 · report$46.98
THE WONDERFUL COMPANY LLC
$35 in all		ONE CASE OF PISTACHIOS at WONDERFUL PISTACHIOS · 2025-08-11 · report$35.26
AERA ENERGY LLC
$13 in all		LUNCH at SEQUOIA SANDWICH · 2024-03-13 · report$12.99
Lyft, Inc.
$13 in all		Meal at Joe's New York Pizza · 2024-03-07 · report$12.87

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