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Jerry McNerney

Senator, State Senate

In the Legislature

Senate District 5 D · 3,677 floor votes this session, 1% not voting

Committees they vote in: Energy, Utilities and Communications · Revenue and Taxation · Budget and Fiscal Review · Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection · Military and Veterans Affairs · Agriculture · Judiciary · Emergency Management

Bills they lead: 56 (30 became law) — AB 1167, AB 1318, ACR 153, SB 1058, SB 1168, SB 1196, SB 1350, SB 1406, SB 237, SB 279, SB 31, SB 327 …

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 831
Gambling: operation of a contest or sweepstakes.		Not voting
2025-09-08		SIDEPRIZE LLC AND ITS AFFILIATES D/B/A PRIZEPICKS ($443 gifts)
AB 57
California Dream for All Program: descendants of formerly enslaved people.		Aye
2025-09-08		CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ($290 gifts)
AB 62
Civil Rights Department: racially motivated eminent domain.		Aye
2025-09-08		CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ($290 gifts)
AB 7
Postsecondary education: admissions preference: descendants of slavery.		Aye
2025-09-09		CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ($290 gifts)
AB 76
Surplus land: exempt surplus land: sectional planning area.		Aye
2025-09-09		CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ($290 gifts)
AB 107
Budget Acts of 2023, 2024, and 2025.		Aye
2026-02-19		CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ($290 gifts)
AB 117
Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program: loans: transit operating purposes: San Francisco Bay area.		Aye
2026-02-19		CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ($290 gifts)
AB 108
Budget Act of 2025.		Aye
2026-05-07		CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ($290 gifts)
AB 109
Budget Act of 2026.		Aye
2026-06-15		CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ($290 gifts)
AB 35
Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024: Administrative Procedure Act: exemption: program guidelines and selection criteria.		Aye
2026-06-25		CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ($290 gifts)
AB 112
Budget Acts of 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.		Aye
2026-06-29		CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ($290 gifts)
AB 150
Early care and education.		Aye
2026-06-29		CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ($290 gifts)
AB 126
Education finance: education omnibus trailer bill.		Aye
2026-07-02		CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ($290 gifts)
AB 40
California Environmental Quality Act: environmental impact reports: coal handling, storage, and export.		Aye
2026-08-25		CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ($290 gifts)
AB 69
FAIR Plan policy notices and renewals. 		Aye
2026-08-30		CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ($290 gifts)
AB 113
Budget Act of 2026.		Aye
2026-09-01		CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ($290 gifts)
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		California Environmental Voters ($159 gifts)
SB 840
Greenhouse gases: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: studies.		Aye
2025-09-13		California Environmental Voters ($159 gifts)
SB 34
Air pollution: South Coast Air Quality Management District: mobile sources: Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.		Aye
2025-09-13		California Environmental Voters ($159 gifts)
SB 601
Water: waste discharge.		Not voting
2025-06-04		California Environmental Voters ($159 gifts)
SB 655
Dwelling units: indoor temperature.		Aye
2025-09-11		California Environmental Voters ($159 gifts)
SB 254
Energy.		Aye
2025-09-13		California Environmental Voters ($159 gifts)
SB 540
Independent System Operator: independent regional organization: California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program.		Aye
2025-06-04		California Environmental Voters ($159 gifts)
AB 39
General plans: Local Electrification Planning Act.		Aye
2025-09-09		California Environmental Voters ($159 gifts)
AB 263
Scott River: Shasta River: watersheds.		Aye
2025-09-09		California Environmental Voters ($159 gifts)
AB 1156
Williamson Act contracts: cancellation fees: photovoltaic solar facilities.		Aye
2026-08-31		California Environmental Voters ($159 gifts)
AB 1207
Climate change: market-based compliance mechanism: extension.		Aye
2025-09-13		California Environmental Voters ($159 gifts)
AB 825
Independent System Operator: independent regional organization.		Aye
2025-09-13		California Environmental Voters ($159 gifts)
AB 154
Greenhouse gases: climate corporate accountability: climate-related financial risk: regulations: California Environmental Quality Act exemption.		Aye
2025-09-12		California Environmental Voters ($159 gifts)
SB 607
Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District: contributions and loans.		Aye
2026-08-17		California Environmental Voters ($159 gifts)

Form 700 statements

StatementFiledWhat it lists
2025 Annual
Senator, State Senate		2026-03-0220 gifts, 8 travel
2024 Annual
Senator, State Senate		2025-02-262 income, 1 gifts

Findings

Worth a look Gifts · the statement

Lists $652.27 in gifts from CADEM in 2025; the limit from one source is $630

The statement lists 6 gift(s) from CADEM dated in 2025, totalling $652.27. The gift limit from a single source was $630 for 2025 (Government Code 89503). The filer's comment on that page: “A reimbursement check for $22.27 was sent to CADEM”.

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: CADEM $103 2025-02-06 p.2Gifts: CADEM $20 2025-02-07 p.2Gifts: CADEM $340 2025-02-12 p.2Gifts: CADEM $95 2025-02-13 p.2Gifts: CADEM $61 2025-01-28 p.2Gifts: CADEM $33 2025-07-03 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 $125.54 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: TRANSPORTATION CALIFORNIA $125.54 (meal).

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).
TRANSPORTATION CALIFORNIA $125.54
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 $14,066.92 in travel paid by others (8 payments)

Largest: Taiwan ($7,239, Taiwan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Newport Beach ($1,766.67, Alliance California's Farmers & Ranchers Community Fund), Napa ($1,520, Foundation for the CA's Technology and Innovation Economy). 8 of 8 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 $7,239 p.5Travel: Alliance California's Farmers & Ranchers Community Fund $1,767 p.4Travel: Foundation for the CA's Technology and Innovation Economy $1,520 p.5

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

Reported by lobbying interests

What lobbyist employers, lobbyists and lobbying firms told the Secretary of State they spent on Jerry McNerney since 2024: $1,157 across 12 items from 7 sources. Each amount is their share as the report gives it. Matched by name and office.

Reported byWhat, whenTo them
SIDEPRIZE LLC AND ITS AFFILIATES D/B/A PRIZEPICKS
$443 in all		Food, Beverage & Entertainment at Sacramento Kings · 2025-03-10 · report$443.33
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS
$290 in all		Inaugural dinner ticket at BBay East Assn. of REALTORS · 2026-02-07 · report$290
California Environmental Voters
$159 in all		Meal at Frank Fat's · 2026-04-15 · report$37.97
Meal at Frank Fat's · 2026-01-21 · report$20.50
Meal at Frank Fat's · 2025-05-21 · report$33.74
Staffer Meal at Frank Fat's · 2025-05-21 · report$33.74
Meal at Frank Fat's · 2025-02-19 · report$33.24
TRANSPORTATION CALIFORNIA
$126 in all		MEAL at ELLA DINING · 2025-03-03 · report$125.54
WESTERN TREE NUT ASSOCIATION
$105 in all		Assorted Tree Nuts at Western Tree Nut Association · 2025-11-12 · report$96.77
Lunch at Panera Bread · 2025-11-12 · report$8.59
CIVIL JUSTICE ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA
$20 in all		CALIFORNIA PROJECT LUNCHEON at CIVIL JUSTICE ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA · 2025-03-19 · report$20.41
MC LANE COMPANY, INC.
$13 in all		Die-cast Model Truck at McLane Company, Inc. · 2025-08-22 · report$12.95

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