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Joe Patterson

Assembly Member, State Assembly

Running in 2026: State Assembly Member District 5 (June 2) “Member of State Assembly, 5th District” · State Assembly Member District 5 (November 3) “Member of State Assembly, 5th District”

In the Legislature

Assembly District 5 R · 4,006 floor votes this session, 8% not voting

Committees they vote in: Health · Housing and Community Development · Privacy and Consumer Protection · Utilities and Energy · Business and Professions

Bills they lead: 49 (15 became law) — AB 1087, AB 1126, AB 1152, AB 1199, AB 1370, AB 1652, AB 1709, AB 1778, AB 2, AB 2542, AB 2700, AB 34 …

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 1018 Automated decision systems.	No 2025-06-02	AIRBNB, INC. ($10,500 campaign); WALMART INC. ($8,900 campaign); Meta Platforms, Inc. ($5,900 campaign); AT&T Services Inc. and its Affiliates ($4,000 campaign) and 5 more
AB 1776 Cartwright Act: violations.	No 2026-08-30	ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES ($9,900 campaign); WALMART INC. ($8,900 campaign); Meta Platforms, Inc. ($5,900 campaign); GILEAD SCIENCES INC. ($4,500 campaign) and 5 more
AB 380 Price gouging.	No 2025-06-04	AIRBNB, INC. ($10,500 campaign); WALMART INC. ($8,900 campaign)
AB 853 California AI Transparency Act.	No 2025-09-12	WALMART INC. ($8,900 campaign); Meta Platforms, Inc. ($5,900 campaign); ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION ($1,500 campaign)
AB 2564 Surveillance pricing.	No 2026-05-27	WALMART INC. ($8,900 campaign); AT&T Services Inc. and its Affiliates ($4,000 campaign); UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ($2,500 campaign)
SB 53 Artificial intelligence models: large developers.	Not voting 2025-09-12	WALMART INC. ($8,900 campaign); Meta Platforms, Inc. ($5,900 campaign)
AB 1207 Climate change: market-based compliance mechanism: extension.	No 2025-09-13	CALPINE CORPORATION ($9,400 campaign); MARATHON PETROLEUM CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES ($4,000 campaign)
AB 1883 Workplace surveillance tools.	Not voting 2026-08-30	CALIFORNIA COMMERCE CLUB ($5,900 campaign, $87 gifts); ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY ($5,900 campaign); CALPORTLAND COMPANY ($1,500 campaign)
AB 1460 Prescription drug pricing.	No 2025-05-19	GILEAD SCIENCES INC. ($4,500 campaign); Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. ($3,500 campaign); Pfizer Inc. ($2,000 campaign); BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY ($2,000 campaign) and 1 more
SB 222 Residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC systems.	Not voting 2026-08-24	PHILLIPS 66 ($5,500 campaign); MARATHON PETROLEUM CORPORATION AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES ($4,000 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($3,000 campaign)
AB 342 Alcoholic beverages: hours of sale: hospitality zones.	Aye 2025-06-03	ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES ($9,900 campaign); UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ($2,500 campaign)
AB 1609 Customer service chatbots.	No 2026-08-31	Meta Platforms, Inc. ($5,900 campaign); AT&T Services Inc. and its Affiliates ($4,000 campaign); UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ($2,500 campaign)
SB 667 Railroads: safety: report.	Aye 2026-08-24	ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES ($9,900 campaign); BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY ($2,500 campaign)
SB 259 Elections: vote by mail ballots.	No 2026-08-28	Meta Platforms, Inc. ($5,900 campaign); AT&T Services Inc. and its Affiliates ($4,000 campaign); UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ($2,500 campaign)
AB 710 Electrical corporations: resiliency planning: microgrid projects.	Not voting 2026-01-26	WALMART INC. ($8,900 campaign); NRG ENERGY, INC. ($3,000 campaign)
AB 2383 Electricity: data centers.	Not voting 2026-08-31	WALMART INC. ($8,900 campaign); NRG ENERGY, INC. ($3,000 campaign)
AB 446 Surveillance pricing.	No 2025-05-12	WALMART INC. ($8,900 campaign); UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ($2,500 campaign); THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATED ENTITIES ($375 gifts)
SB 86 California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act: sales and use tax exclusion.	Aye 2025-09-08	CALPINE CORPORATION ($9,400 campaign); GENERAL ATOMICS ($2,000 campaign)
AB 299 Motels, hotels, and short-term lodging: disasters.	Aye 2025-09-13	AIRBNB, INC. ($10,500 campaign)
SB 346 Local agencies: transient occupancy taxes: short-term rental facilitator.	Not voting 2025-08-29	AIRBNB, INC. ($10,500 campaign)
SB 36 Price gouging: state of emergency.	No 2025-09-09	AIRBNB, INC. ($10,500 campaign)
SB 594 Short-Term Rental Facilitator Act of 2026.	Aye 2026-08-20	AIRBNB, INC. ($10,500 campaign)
SB 895 California Science and Health Research Bond Act.	Not voting 2026-08-31	GILEAD SCIENCES INC. ($4,500 campaign); Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. ($3,500 campaign); Pfizer Inc. ($2,000 campaign)
AB 233 Alcoholic beverages: licensees.	Aye 2025-04-24	ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES ($9,900 campaign)
AB 1287 Beer: labeling: temporary licensing.	Aye 2025-05-01	ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES ($9,900 campaign)
AB 744 Alcoholic beverage control: tied-house restrictions: exceptions: off-sale retail services.	Aye 2026-08-25	ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES ($9,900 campaign)
AB 1246 Alcoholic beverages: distilled spirits.	Aye 2025-09-13	ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES ($9,900 campaign)
AB 344 Alcoholic beverages: beer price posting and marketing regulations: definitions.	Aye 2025-05-19	ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES ($9,900 campaign)
AB 445 Alcoholic beverages.	Aye 2025-09-12	ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES ($9,900 campaign)
AB 828 Alcoholic beverage control: neighborhood-restricted special on-sale general licenses.	Aye 2025-09-09	ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES ($9,900 campaign)

Form 700 statements

Statement	Filed	What it lists
2025 Annual (amendment) Assembly Member, State Assembly	2026-08-26	1 travel
2025 Annual Assembly Member, State Assembly	2026-03-02	3 investments, 1 income, 5 gifts, 6 travel
2024 Annual Assembly Member, State Assembly	2025-03-03	6 investments, 2 income, 15 gifts, 4 travel

Findings

Worth a look Lobbying · the statement

Lobbying reports name $379.38 in gifts to them in 2025 from 3 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: PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY $205.12 (food and beverages); CALIFORNIA COMMERCE CLUB $87.13 (dinner); WESTERN ENERGY FREEDOM ACTION $87.13 (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).

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY $205.12

2025-09-30 FOOD AND BEVERAGES at OAK DOOR $205.12 · lobbyist employer report

CALIFORNIA COMMERCE CLUB $87.13

2025-11-17 DINNER at GATHER ON MAUI $87.13 · lobbyist employer report

WESTERN ENERGY FREEDOM ACTION $87.13

2025-11-17 DINNER at GATHER ON MAUI $87.13 · 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 Lobbying

39 of their donors and benefactors lobbied on 266 bills they voted on

Employers that lobbied on bills they voted on (as their lobbying reports name the bills) and that gave $133,100 to their campaign, $561 in gifts reported by lobbying interests. Largest: AIRBNB, INC. ($10,500); ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES ($9,900); CALPINE CORPORATION ($9,400); WALMART INC. ($8,900); CALIFORNIA COMMERCE CLUB ($5,987). They voted aye on 162 of the 266.

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

Context Travel payments · the statement

Lists $14,917.11 in travel paid by others (6 payments)

Largest: Kihei, HI ($5,456.12, Independent Voter Project), Punta Mita, Mexico ($3,511.52, Independent Voter Project), Tokyo, Japan ($3,474.79, CalAsian Foundation). 6 of 6 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 $5,456 p.6 Travel: Independent Voter Project $3,512 p.5 Travel: CalAsian Foundation $3,475 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 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

Context Travel payments · the statement

Lists $22,666.89 in travel paid by others (4 payments)

Largest: United Kingdom ($12,572.88, California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy), Hawaii ($6,185.30, Independent Voter Project), New York ($2,788.77, Shared Energy Future Foundation). 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: California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy $12,573 p.6 Travel: Independent Voter Project $6,185 p.6 Travel: Shared Energy Future Foundation $2,789 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 Joe Patterson reported others paying at their request (FPPC Form 803) since 2024: $10,000 in 2 payments to 2 recipients. Officials report a source that pays $5,000 or more in a year; there is no limit.

Largest recipients: Sierra Pregnancy & Health $5,000 · Whitney Ranch Charitable Foundation $5,000

Paid by	To, for	Amount
Meta Menlo Park	Sierra Pregnancy & Health · help fund healthcare for women and families before, during and after pregnancy Charitable · 2025-12-22	$5,000
Meta Menlo Park	Whitney Ranch Charitable Foundation · Help fund healthcare for women with breast cancer in Placer County. Charitable · 2025-12-22	$5,000

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 Joe Patterson since 2024: $876 across 7 items from 6 sources. Each amount is their share as the report gives it. Matched by name and office.

Reported by	What, when	To them
WALT DISNEY COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATED ENTITIES; THE $375 in all	DISNEYLAND TICKETS at THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY · 2024-05-03 · report	$375
PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY $205 in all	FOOD AND BEVERAGES at OAK DOOR · 2025-09-30 · report	$205.12
Sempra and its Affiliates: San Diego Gas & Electric Company and Southern California Gas Company $110 in all	Lunch with Eugene Mitchell and Kent Kauss during IVP Conference at Morimoto Maui at the Andaz · 2024-11-20 · report	$92.56
	Snack on CFEE Study Tour Spring 2024 at The Langham Hotel · 2024-03-23 · report	$17
CALIFORNIA COMMERCE CLUB $87 in all	DINNER at GATHER ON MAUI · 2025-11-17 · report	$87.13
WESTERN ENERGY FREEDOM ACTION $87 in all	DINNER at GATHER ON MAUI · 2025-11-17 · report	$87.13
PANDA RESTAURANT GROUP, INC. $12 in all	LUNCH EVENT at VALLEY LUXURY EVENTS · 2024-05-20 · report	$12

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Campaign money: State Assembly Member District 5

$1,042,003itemized, 473 contributions

$0from the candidate (incl. loans)

Plus $67,200 in 19 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).

California Real Estate PAC (CREPAC) SCC $11,800 2026-09-21 · North Coast States Regional Council of Carpenters Power PAC SCC $11,800 2026-10-01 · California Dental Association PAC (CDA PAC) $5,900 2026-10-07 · Park West Casinos, Inc. $5,900 2026-10-06 · United Auburn Indian Community of the Auburn Rancheria $5,900 2026-09-28 · California New Car Dealers Assoc PAC $3,000 2026-10-01 · California Professional Firefighters PAC Small Contributor Committee $2,500 2026-10-02 · PBF Energy Holding Company, LLC - PBF Energy(Trecia Canty, Sr VP, General Counsel) $2,500 2026-09-29 · United Nurses Association of California/Union of Health Care Professionals PAC (UNAC PAC) SCC $2,500 2026-10-05 · Calpine Corporation $2,400 2026-10-05

Where their outside money comes from

9%48%32%

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

Plus $290,873 of their own money and from their earlier campaigns' committees. Compare with all state candidates →

How it was spent: $839,969

Transfers to their other committees$290,873

Contributions to others$193,876

Consultants$102,639

Other (described)$100,725

Fundraising events$63,734

Legal and accounting$29,733

Literature and mailings$22,000

Office expenses$13,979

Civic donations$11,400

Filing and ballot fees$9,277

Largest payees: Joe Patterson for Assembly 2026 $290,873 Transfers to their other committees · Golden State Strategy Group $107,739 Fundraising events · Chase Card Services $93,393 Candidate travel and meals · Sutter County Republican Central Committee $49,000 Contributions to others · Vona L. Copp $29,373 Legal and accounting · Gilliard Blanning & Associates, Inc. $21,314 Internet and email · West Coast Strategies $18,000 Consultants · Edgewood Tahoe Resort $14,082 Fundraising events

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
Joe Patterson for Assembly 2024 Rocklin	Committee	$290,872.53
Blue Shield of California Oakland	Business/other	$15,090.33
Amazon.com Services LLC(Andrea Fava) Seattle	Business/other	$11,800
California Building Industry Association PAC Sacramento	Committee	$11,800
California Real Estate PAC (CREPAC) SCC Los Angeles	Small contributor cmte	$11,800
Chevron U.S.A., Inc. San Ramon	Business/other	$11,800
Edison International and Affiliated Entities Rosemead	Business/other	$11,800
Northern California Carpenters Regional Council POWER PAC SCC Sacramento	Small contributor cmte	$11,800
PG&E Corporation and affiliated entities San Francisco	Business/other	$11,800
Philip Morris USA Inc. and its Affiliates Sacramento	Business/other	$11,800
Sacramento Area Fire Fighters Local 522 PAC Sacramento	Committee	$11,800
Sempra Energy San Diego	Business/other	$11,800
Mark Travis Software Developer · Ripple Labs Inc · Auburn	Person	$11,800
Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association PAC Sacramento	Committee	$11,800
Airbnb, Inc. San Francisco	Business/other	$10,500

Committees: A Safer and More Affordable California: Assemblyman Joe Patterson Ballot Measure Committee, Joe Patterson for Assembly 2026, Joe Patterson for Assembly 2022, Joe Patterson for Assembly 2024. From the Secretary of State's Cal-Access export; reports covering 2025–2026.

Their donors also gave to

Their largest donors who also funded other 2026 state candidates.

Donor	To them	Candidates funded
Blue Shield of California Business · Oakland · registered lobbyist employer	$15,090	59
Sacramento Area Fire Fighters Local 522 PAC Labor union · Sacramento	$11,800	15
Philip Morris USA Inc. and its Affiliates Business · Sacramento	$11,800	23
PG&E Corporation and Affiliated Entities Business · Oakland	$11,800	16
Mark Travis Software Developer, Ripple Labs Inc · Auburn	$11,800	2
Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association PAC Group or PAC · Sacramento	$11,800	36
Sempra Energy Business · San Diego	$11,800	38
Amazon.com Services LLC(Andrea Fava) Business · Washington	$11,800	21
Edison International and Affiliated Entities Business · Rosemead	$11,800	25
California Building Industry Association PAC Group or PAC · Sacramento	$11,800	74
California Real Estate PAC (CREPAC) SCC Group or PAC · Los Angeles	$11,800	5
Chevron U.S.A., Inc. Business · San Ramon · registered lobbyist employer	$11,800	10
Northern California Carpenters Regional Council POWER PAC SCC Labor union · Sacramento	$11,800	3
Airbnb, Inc. Business · San Francisco · registered lobbyist employer	$10,500	87
California Association of Highway Patrolmen PAC - SCC Group or PAC · Sacramento	$10,000	2