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Robert Garcia

Assembly Member, State Assembly

Running in 2026: State Assembly Member District 50 (June 2) “State Assemblymember/Educator” · State Assembly Member District 50 (November 3) “State Assemblymember/Educator”

In the Legislature

Assembly District 50 D · 4,006 floor votes this session, 7% not voting

Committees they vote in: Natural Resources · Education · Rules · Housing and Community Development · Public Employment and Retirement · Revenue and Taxation · Judiciary · Communications and Conveyance

Bills they lead: 38 (12 became law) — AB 1280, AB 1410, AB 1439, AB 1770, AB 2175, AB 2225, AB 753, AB 960, ACR 202, ACR 221, ACR 85, SB 1004 …

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 221
Tribal Nation Grant Fund.		Aye
2025-09-08		BARONA BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($3,500 campaign, $51 gifts, $5,000 behested); Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation ($7,500 campaign); SAN MANUEL BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($5,900 campaign); MORONGO BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($5,900 campaign) and 3 more
AB 52
Farmer equity: advisory committees.		Aye
2026-01-26		BARONA BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($3,500 campaign, $51 gifts, $5,000 behested); Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians ($5,900 campaign); MORONGO BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($5,900 campaign); HABEMATOLEL POMO OF UPPER LAKE ($3,500 campaign) and 1 more
AB 831
Gambling: operation of a contest or sweepstakes.		Aye
2025-09-12		BARONA BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($3,500 campaign, $51 gifts, $5,000 behested); MORONGO BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($5,900 campaign); HABEMATOLEL POMO OF UPPER LAKE ($3,500 campaign); AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS ($3,500 campaign) and 1 more
AB 1018
Automated decision systems.		Aye
2025-06-02		CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING LLC ($5,621 campaign); AIRBNB, INC. ($5,500 campaign); HABEMATOLEL POMO OF UPPER LAKE ($3,500 campaign); Salesforce, Inc. ($6 gifts)
AB 1004
Tribal financial information: public records: exemption.		Aye
2025-09-04		MORONGO BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($5,900 campaign); HABEMATOLEL POMO OF UPPER LAKE ($3,500 campaign); AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS ($3,500 campaign)
AB 1378
Child welfare services: prevention services: Indian tribes.		Aye
2025-09-10		MORONGO BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($5,900 campaign); HABEMATOLEL POMO OF UPPER LAKE ($3,500 campaign); AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS ($3,500 campaign)
AB 1485
Property tax: documentary transfer tax: exemptions: Native American tribes.		Aye
2026-01-29		Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians ($5,900 campaign); HABEMATOLEL POMO OF UPPER LAKE ($3,500 campaign); AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS ($3,500 campaign)
AB 470
Telephone corporations: carriers of last resort.		No
2025-06-27		MORONGO BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($5,900 campaign); CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING LLC ($5,621 campaign)
AB 380
Price gouging.		Aye
2025-06-04		CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING LLC ($5,621 campaign); AIRBNB, INC. ($5,500 campaign)
AB 1109
Evidentiary privileges: union agent-represented worker privilege.		Aye
2025-05-12		PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS IN CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT ($6,000 campaign); CALIFORNIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS ($5,000 campaign)
AB 706
Forest Organic Residue, Energy, and Safety Transformation (FOREST) and Wildfire Prevention Fund Act.		Aye
2026-08-27		CALIFORNIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS ($5,000 campaign); CAL FIRE LOCAL 2881 ($3,000 campaign); HUMBOLDT REDWOOD COMPANY ($1,500 campaign)
AB 562
Foster care: placement: family finding.		Aye
2025-09-12		MORONGO BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($5,900 campaign); HABEMATOLEL POMO OF UPPER LAKE ($3,500 campaign)
AB 977
California Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 2001: California State University: burial sites: human remains.		Aye
2025-09-02		MORONGO BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($5,900 campaign); HABEMATOLEL POMO OF UPPER LAKE ($3,500 campaign)
AB 1574
The Tribal Foster Care Prevention Program.		Not voting
2026-05-21		MORONGO BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($5,900 campaign); AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS ($3,500 campaign)
SB 594
Short-Term Rental Facilitator Act of 2026.		Aye
2026-08-20		AIRBNB, INC. ($5,500 campaign); AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS ($3,500 campaign)
AB 1776
Cartwright Act: violations.		Aye
2026-08-30		CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING LLC ($5,621 campaign); ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES ($3,000 campaign); California Environmental Voters ($151 gifts); Microsoft Corporation ($15 gifts) and 1 more
AB 911
Emergency telecommunications medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles.		No
2025-06-02		CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING LLC ($5,621 campaign); CAL FIRE LOCAL 2881 ($3,000 campaign)
AB 130
Housing.		Aye
2025-06-30		BARONA BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($3,500 campaign, $51 gifts, $5,000 behested)
AB 1246
Alcoholic beverages: distilled spirits.		Not voting
2025-09-13		Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, LLC ($5,000 campaign); ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES ($3,000 campaign)
SB 675
Imperial County Air Pollution Control District: members and duties.		Aye
2026-08-25		CALIFORNIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS ($5,000 campaign); ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES ($3,000 campaign)
ACR 39
Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Month.		Aye
2025-05-08		Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation ($7,500 campaign)
SB 864
Tribal gaming: compact ratification.		Aye
2025-09-09		Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation ($7,500 campaign)
SB 667
Railroads: safety: report.		Aye
2026-08-24		BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY ($4,500 campaign); ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES ($3,000 campaign)
SB 1105
Law enforcement.		Aye
2026-08-25		Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation ($7,500 campaign)
AB 102
Budget Act of 2025.		Aye
2025-06-27		PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS IN CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT ($6,000 campaign)
AB 101
Budget Act of 2025.		Aye
2025-03-20		PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS IN CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT ($6,000 campaign)
AB 139
State Bargaining Unit 9 and State Bargaining Unit 12.		Aye
2025-03-20		PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS IN CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT ($6,000 campaign)
AB 390
Vehicles: highway safety.		Aye
2025-07-10		PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS IN CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT ($6,000 campaign)
AB 53
Native American tribes: fish and wildlife: conservation and mitigation lands.		Aye
2025-05-29		PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS IN CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT ($6,000 campaign)
AB 694
Department of Industrial Relations: advisory committee: occupational safety and health.		Aye
2025-06-02		PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS IN CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT ($6,000 campaign)

Form 700 statements

StatementFiledWhat it lists
2025 Annual (amendment)
Assembly Member, State Assembly		2026-03-112 gifts
2025 Annual (amendment)
Assembly Member, State Assembly		2026-03-021 gifts
2025 Annual (amendment)
Assembly Member, State Assembly		2026-03-023 travel
2025 Annual
Assembly Member, State Assembly		2026-02-271 businesses & trusts, 23 gifts, 4 travel
2024 Annual (amendment)
Assembly Member, State Assembly		2025-03-101 travel
2024 Annual
Assembly Member, State Assembly		2025-03-031 businesses & trusts, 1 gifts

Findings

Worth a look Gifts · the statement

Lists $671 in gifts from California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation in 2025; the limit from one source is $630

The statement lists 4 gift(s) from California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation dated in 2025, totalling $671. The gift limit from a single source was $630 for 2025 (Government Code 89503).

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: California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation $578 2025-12-04 p.6Gifts: California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation $0 2025-12-07 p.6Gifts: California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation $93 2025-12-04 p.6Gifts: California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation $0 2025-12-07 p.6

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 $51.03 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: BARONA BAND OF MISSION INDIANS $51.03 (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).
BARONA BAND OF MISSION INDIANS $51.03
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 Behested payments

Of $20,000 paid at their request since 2024: 1 source ($5,000) also gave $3,500 to their campaign; 1 source ($5,000) is a registered lobbyist employer

Payments made at their request (Form 803) from sources that also appear in Cal-Access: Barona Band of Mission Indians ($5,000 to Corona Elementary; gave $3,500 to the campaign; lobbyist employer).

What to check
  • Context: behested payments are legal and public; this puts two public records side by side.
  • Whether the official later acted on matters involving these sources.
  • The full Form 803 reports (available from the FPPC on request).
Rule: Behested payments from donors or lobbyist employers
“Unlike gifts and contributions, there are no limits on the amount of payments an official may behest.”FPPC, Reporting Behested Payments – Form 803 ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Context Lobbying

26 of their donors and benefactors lobbied on 245 bills they voted on

Employers that lobbied on bills they voted on (as their lobbying reports name the bills) and that gave $86,321 to their campaign, $267 in gifts reported by lobbying interests, $5,000 in payments at their request. Largest: BARONA BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($8,551); Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation ($7,500); PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS IN CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT ($6,000); MORONGO BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($5,900); SAN MANUEL BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($5,900). They voted aye on 221 of the 245.

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 Campaign money · the statement

1 source on this statement also gave to their campaign

Listed here and among the campaign's contributors in Cal-Access: Barona Band of Mission Indians ($3,500).

What to check
  • Context: a donor who is also an employer, client or gift-giver is public on both records.
  • Whether the official later acted on matters involving them (votes, contracts, recusals).

Gifts: Barona Band of Mission Indians p.4

Rule: Campaign donors also on the statement

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 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 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 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

Behested payments

What Robert Garcia reported others paying at their request (FPPC Form 803) since 2024: $20,000 in 4 payments to 4 recipients. Officials report a source that pays $5,000 or more in a year; there is no limit.

Largest recipients: Fany Espinoza Hernandez $5,000 · Ashley Avila $5,000 · Taylor Villanueva $5,000 · Corona Elementary $5,000

Paid byTo, forAmount
California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation
Long Beach		Fany Espinoza Hernandez · Academic Scholarship
Charitable · 2025-07-15		$5,000
California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation
Long Beach		Ashley Avila · Academic Scholarship
Charitable · 2026-07-22		$5,000
California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation
Long Beach		Taylor Villanueva · Academic Scholarship
Charitable · 2026-07-22		$5,000
Barona Band of Mission Indians
Lakeside · registered lobbyist employer · campaign donor		Corona Elementary · Purchase of library books and other student materials.
Charitable · 2026-08-19		$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 Robert Garcia since 2024: $280 across 9 items from 6 sources. Each amount is their share as the report gives it. Matched by name and office.

Reported byWhat, whenTo them
California Environmental Voters
$151 in all		Meal at California Environmental Voters · 2026-06-17 · report$70.73
Meal at Frank Fat's · 2026-04-15 · report$37.97
Meal at Frank Fat's · 2026-02-18 · report$22.27
Meal at Frank Fat's · 2026-01-21 · report$20.50
BARONA BAND OF MISSION INDIANS
$51 in all		MEAL at BARONA RESORT AND CASINO · 2025-02-28 · report$51.03
OpenAI OPCO, LLC
$44 in all		Lunch at OpenAI · 2025-05-22 · report$43.72
Microsoft Corporation
$15 in all		Lunch at Calif Chicken Catering · 2025-10-15 · report$14.58
MC LANE COMPANY, INC.
$13 in all		Die-cast Model Truck at McLane Company, Inc. · 2026-02-27 · report$12.95
Salesforce, Inc.
$6 in all		Food & Beverages at Salesforce Tower · 2025-05-22 · report$5.85

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Campaign money: State Assembly Member District 50

$616,006itemized, 302 contributions
$0from the candidate (incl. loans)

Plus $38,100 in 13 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).

CA State Council of Service Employees $11,800 2026-10-07 · Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians $5,900 2026-09-28 · Southern California Pipe Trades District Council 16 PAC $3,500 2026-10-06 · COMCAST Financial Agency Corporation $3,000 2026-09-24 · United Nurses Association of California/Union of Health Care Professionals PAC $3,000 2026-10-07 · Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, Transportation Workers' International Union (S.M.A.R.T.) Local 105 PAc $2,500 2026-09-21 · Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians $2,000 2026-09-29 · CALPINE Corporation $1,500 2026-10-07 · Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling, LLC $1,500 2026-09-29 · Novartis FRA Ops $1,400 2026-10-07

Where their outside money comes from

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

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How it was spent: $372,760

Contributions to others$134,060
Other (described)$101,783
Consultants$92,250
Legal and accounting$15,667
Civic donations$9,000
Fundraising events$7,591
Literature and mailings$3,046
Staff travel and meals$2,946
Returned contributions$2,350
Filing and ballot fees$1,292

Largest payees: California Democratic Party $99,685 Contributions to others · Chase $88,514 Other (described) · Pruitt, LLC $84,000 Consultants · McIntyre & Barcelona, LLC $15,667 Legal and accounting · Pilar Schiavo for Assembly 2026 $5,900 Contributions to others · Brian Pacheco for Assembly 2026 $5,900 Contributions to others · Patel for Assembly 2026 $4,900 Contributions to others · Fatima Iqbal-Zubair for Assembly 2026 $4,900 Contributions to others

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 contributorsTypeTotal
California Nurses Association Political Action Committee
Sacramento		Small contributor cmte$24,900
United Domestic Workers of America Action Fund
Sacramento		Small contributor cmte$23,600
State Building and Contruction Trades Council of California PAC
Sacramento		Small contributor cmte$18,300
Association of California School Administrators Political Action Committee
Sacramento		Small contributor cmte$11,800
CA State Council of Service Employees
Sacramento		Small contributor cmte$11,800
California Teachers Association, Association for Better Citizenship
Burlingame		Small contributor cmte$11,800
Faculty for Our University's Future, a committee sponsored by the California Faculty Association
Sacramento		Small contributor cmte$11,800
Pechanga Band of Indians
Temecula		Business/other$11,800
SEIU United Healthcare Workers West Political Action Committee
Los Angeles		Small contributor cmte$11,800
Service Employees Internation Union Local 1000 Candidate PAC
Sacramento		Small contributor cmte$11,800
Service Employees International Union SEIU LOCAL 2015 STATE PAC
Los Angeles		Small contributor cmte$11,800
Elizabeth Simons
Homemker · N/A · Atherton		Person$11,800
California Professional Firefighters Political Action Committee
Sacramento		Small contributor cmte$11,000
California Correctional Peace Officers Association PAC
Sacramento		Committee$10,400
Plumbers & Steamfitters U.A. Local Union 398
Rancho Cucamonga		Small contributor cmte$8,400

Committees: ROBERT GARCIA FOR ASSEMBLY 2026, ROBERT GARCIA FOR LT. GOVERNOR 2026, #1384353, #1395891, GARCIA FOR ASSEMBLY 2024; ROBERT, ROBERT GARCIA OFFICEHOLDER ACCOUNT. 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.

DonorTo themCandidates fundedBy party
CA Nurses Association PAC
Labor union · Sacramento		$24,9009
United Domestic Workers of America Action Fund
Labor union · Sacramento		$23,60052
California Professional Firefighters Political Action Committee
Labor union · Sacramento		$14,00069
Association of California School Administrators PAC
Group or PAC · Sacramento		$11,80035
Faculty for our University's Future, a committee sponsored by the California Faculty Association
Labor union · Sacramento		$11,80040
Pechanga Band of Indians
Tribal government · Temecula · registered lobbyist employer		$11,800103
Elizabeth Simons
Retired, N/A · Atherton		$11,80015
CA State Council of Service Employees
Labor union · Sacramento · registered lobbyist employer		$11,80012
California Teachers Association/Association for Better Citizenship
Labor union · Burlingame		$11,80043
SEIU United Healthcare Workers West Political Action Committee
Labor union · Los Angeles		$11,80013
Service Employees International Union SEIU Local 2015 State PAC
Labor union · Los Angeles		$11,80018
California Correctional Peace Officers Association PAC
Labor union · Sacramento		$10,40070
Plumbers & Steamfitters U.A. Local Union 398
Labor union · Rancho Cucamonga		$8,4002
Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation
Tribal government · El Cajon · registered lobbyist employer		$7,50040
Fiona Ma for Lieutenant Governor 2026
Candidate or officeholder committee · Sacramento		$6,50010