California Files

People › State Senate

Thomas Umberg

Senator, State Senate

Running in 2026: Board of Equalization Member District 4 (June 2) “Small Businessman/Senator” · Board of Equalization Member District 4 (November 3) “Small Businessman/Senator”

In the Legislature

Senate District 34 D · 3,677 floor votes this session, 2% not voting

Committees they vote in: Judiciary · Business, Professions and Economic Development · Elections and Constitutional Amendments · Transportation · Revenue and Taxation · Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection · Military and Veterans Affairs

Bills they lead: 80 (59 became law) — AB 1043, AB 1130, AB 2294, AB 2341, AB 492, AB 506, AB 519, AB 635, ACR 6, SB 1344, SB 25, SB 253 …

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 1776
Cartwright Act: violations.		Aye
2026-08-30		Meta Platforms, Inc. ($14,800 campaign); Amazon.com Services LLC ($14,600 campaign); ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES ($13,000 campaign); Pfizer Inc. ($10,500 campaign) and 11 more
AB 1405
Artificial intelligence: auditors: registration.		Aye
2026-08-30		KPMG LLP ($15,300 campaign); Meta Platforms, Inc. ($14,800 campaign); Amazon.com Services LLC ($14,600 campaign); ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION ($5,500 campaign) and 1 more
SB 813
Independent verification organizations.		Aye
2026-08-30		KPMG LLP ($15,300 campaign); Meta Platforms, Inc. ($14,800 campaign); Amazon.com Services LLC ($14,600 campaign); INTUIT INC. ($2,500 campaign) and 1 more
SB 1119
Companion chatbots: children’s safety.		Aye
2026-08-31		KPMG LLP ($15,300 campaign); Meta Platforms, Inc. ($14,800 campaign); Amazon.com Services LLC ($14,600 campaign); Anthropic PBC ($2,000 campaign)
SB 690
Crimes: invasion of privacy.		Aye
2026-08-28		Meta Platforms, Inc. ($14,800 campaign); Amazon.com Services LLC ($14,600 campaign); DIRECTV, LLC ($4,000 campaign); EBAY, INC. ($3,000 campaign) and 4 more
SB 503
Health care services: artificial intelligence.		Aye
2026-08-25		Meta Platforms, Inc. ($14,800 campaign); Amazon.com Services LLC ($14,600 campaign); Pfizer Inc. ($10,500 campaign)
AB 1609
Customer service chatbots.		Aye
2026-08-30		Meta Platforms, Inc. ($14,800 campaign); Amazon.com Services LLC ($14,600 campaign); DIRECTV, LLC ($4,000 campaign); AT&T Services Inc. and its Affiliates ($2,000 campaign) and 1 more
AB 1378
Child welfare services: prevention services: Indian tribes.		Aye
2025-09-08		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign); AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS ($5,000 campaign); FEDERATED INDIANS OF GRATON RANCHERIA ($2,500 campaign)
AB 52
Farmer equity: advisory committees.		Aye
2026-08-20		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign); AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS ($5,000 campaign); FEDERATED INDIANS OF GRATON RANCHERIA ($2,500 campaign)
SB 898
Connected consumer products.		Aye
2026-05-27		Meta Platforms, Inc. ($14,800 campaign); Amazon.com Services LLC ($14,600 campaign); ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION ($5,500 campaign)
AB 831
Gambling: operation of a contest or sweepstakes.		Aye
2025-09-08		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign); AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS ($5,000 campaign); TWENTY-NINE PALMS BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($1,000 campaign) and 1 more
AB 221
Tribal Nation Grant Fund.		Aye
2025-09-03		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign); AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS ($5,000 campaign); TWENTY-NINE PALMS BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($1,000 campaign)
AB 1004
Tribal financial information: public records: exemption.		Aye
2025-09-03		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign); AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS ($5,000 campaign)
AB 1485
Property tax: documentary transfer tax: exemptions: Native American tribes.		Aye
2025-09-11		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign); AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS ($5,000 campaign)
AB 2173
Tribal gaming: compact ratification.		Aye
2026-08-25		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign); AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS ($5,000 campaign)
AB 1641
Postsecondary education: segments: tribal colleges and universities.		Aye
2026-08-26		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign); AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS ($5,000 campaign)
SB 222
Residential heat pump water heater or heat pump HVAC systems.		Aye
2026-08-25		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign); PHILLIPS 66 ($4,700 campaign)
SB 1130
Invasion of privacy: wearable recording devices.		Aye
2026-08-31		Meta Platforms, Inc. ($14,800 campaign); Amazon.com Services LLC ($14,600 campaign); PANDA RESTAURANT GROUP, INC. ($2,000 campaign)
AB 130
Housing.		Aye
2025-06-30		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign); FEDERATED INDIANS OF GRATON RANCHERIA ($2,500 campaign)
AB 697
Protected species: authorized take: State Route 37 project.		Not voting
2025-09-04		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign); FEDERATED INDIANS OF GRATON RANCHERIA ($2,500 campaign)
SB 1326
California Environmental Quality Act: tribal cultural resources: mitigation measures.		Aye
2026-05-22		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign); FEDERATED INDIANS OF GRATON RANCHERIA ($2,500 campaign)
AB 1824
Indian children: guardianship or conservatorship proceedings.		Aye
2026-08-24		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign); FEDERATED INDIANS OF GRATON RANCHERIA ($2,500 campaign)
SB 977
Chain restaurants: children’s meals.		Aye
2026-08-24		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign); PANDA RESTAURANT GROUP, INC. ($2,000 campaign)
SB 1004
Law enforcement: masks.		Aye
2026-08-27		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign); Sacramento County Deputy Sheriffs Association ($2,000 campaign)
SB 1105
Law enforcement.		Aye
2026-08-27		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign); Sacramento County Deputy Sheriffs Association ($2,000 campaign)
AB 2187
Public contracts: contracts for services.		Aye
2026-08-20		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign); TWENTY-NINE PALMS BAND OF MISSION INDIANS ($1,000 campaign)
SB 49
Tribal gaming: compact and amendment ratification.		Aye
2025-03-17		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign)
SR 26
Aye
2025-03-20		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign)
SB 130
Housing.		Aye
2025-03-20		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign)
ACR 39
Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Month.		Aye
2025-04-24		Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800 campaign); SHINGLE SPRINGS BAND OF MIWOK INDIANS ($8,000 campaign)

Form 700 statements

StatementFiledWhat it lists
2025 Annual
Senator, State Senate		2026-02-2719 investments, 2 businesses & trusts, 12 gifts, 1 travel
2024 Annual
Senator, State Senate		2025-02-2820 investments, 2 businesses & trusts, 7 gifts, 5 travel

Findings

Worth a look Lobbying · the statement

Lobbying reports name $303.50 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 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE $303.50 (*speaker - amount doesn't count towards limit).

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 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE $303.50
  • 2024-05-08 *Speaker - amount doesn't count towards limit at SAFE Credit Union Convention Center $195.89 (of $31,343.55 for everyone it lists) · lobbyist employer report
  • 2024-11-13 *Speaker - amount doesn't count towards limit at Disney Grand Californian, Hotel & Spa $26.95 (of $7,008.22 for everyone it lists) · lobbyist employer report
  • 2024-11-13 *Speaker - amount doesn't count towards limit at Disney Grand Californian, Hotel & Spa $80.66 (of $20,971.21 for everyone it lists) · 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

64 of their donors and benefactors lobbied on 361 bills they voted on

Employers that lobbied on bills they voted on (as their lobbying reports name the bills) and that gave $267,100 to their campaign, $1,260 in gifts reported by lobbying interests. Largest: Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ($19,800); KPMG LLP ($15,300); Meta Platforms, Inc. ($14,800); Amazon.com Services LLC ($14,600); ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES ($13,000). They voted aye on 350 of the 361.

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 $8,879.97 in travel paid by others (5 payments)

Largest: Pebble Beach Resort, Pebble Beach CA ($4,480.72, Governor's Cup Foundation, Inc.), Norwary, EU ($4,005.74, Tides Advocacy/Smart Justice CA EIN 94-3153687), Sacramento, CA ($195.89, CalChamber). 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: Governor's Cup Foundation, Inc. $4,481 p.9Travel: Tides Advocacy/Smart Justice CA EIN 94-3153687 $4,006 p.9Travel: CalChamber $196 p.9

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 Thomas Umberg reported others paying at their request (FPPC Form 803) since 2024: $17,600 in 3 payments to 2 recipients. Officials report a source that pays $5,000 or more in a year; there is no limit.

Largest recipients: DTSA Feel Good Events $12,000 · Templo Calvario $5,600

Paid byTo, forAmount
Automobile Club of Southern California
Costa Mesa,		DTSA Feel Good Events · Young Senator Program Sponsorship
Charitable · 2025-07-10		$6,000
Automobile Club of Southern California
Costa Mesa		DTSA Feel Good Events · Young Senator Program Sponsorship
Charitable · 2026-06-12		$6,000
Wells Fargo
San Francisco		Templo Calvario · Young Senator Program Sponsorship
Charitable · 2026-05-30		$5,600

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 Thomas Umberg since 2024: $1,679 across 6 items from 3 sources. Each amount is their share as the report gives it. Matched by name and office.

Reported byWhat, whenTo them
RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
$1,260 in all		GRAMMY TICKET at RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA · 2026-02-01 · report$630
GRAMMY TICKET at RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA · 2025-02-02 · report$630
CALIFORNIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
$304 in all		*Speaker - amount doesn't count towards limit at Disney Grand Californian, Hotel & Spa · 2024-11-13 · report$26.95
*Speaker - amount doesn't count towards limit at Disney Grand Californian, Hotel & Spa · 2024-11-13 · report$80.66
*Speaker - amount doesn't count towards limit at SAFE Credit Union Convention Center · 2024-05-08 · report$195.89
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF HEALTH PLANS
$115 in all		Conference Panelist Lunch at Elevate Public Affairs LLC · 2025-02-08 · report$115.16

Reports on Cal-Access may ask you to pass a security check first.

Campaign money: Board of Equalization Member District 4

$2,330,624itemized, 964 contributions
$0from the candidate (incl. loans)

Plus $50,361 in 20 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).

Larry Agran $5,000 2026-09-21 · Bill Dodd for Lt. Governor 2030 $5,000 2026-09-23 · California-Nevada Conference of Operating Engineers PAC Small Contributor Committee $5,000 2026-10-07 · Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians $5,000 2026-10-01 · California State Council of Laborers PAC Small Contributor Committee $4,900 2026-10-08 · Andrew Thorburn $3,925 2026-09-29 · California Democratic Party $2,536 2026-10-02 · California Professional Firefighters PAC Small Contributor Committee $2,500 2026-10-02 · Lin Moen $2,500 2026-10-02 · O'Melveny & Myer, LLP PAC $2,500 2026-10-06

Where their outside money comes from

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

Compare with all state candidates →

How it was spent: $2,863,110

Other (described)$2,204,587
Fundraising events$158,195
Legal and accounting$93,803
Phone banks$88,214
Polling$78,925
Contributions to others$68,410
Consultants$65,000
Office expenses$34,828
Literature and mailings$19,899
Civic donations$17,500

Largest payees: Colonel (Ret.) Tom Umberg for Board of Equalization 2026 $1,077,170 Other (described) · LG Campaigns, LLC $1,028,050 Office expenses · Buchert Development, LLC $99,867 Fundraising events · Grindstone Field Solutions, LLC $92,114 Phone banks · Capital One $86,784 Other (described) · Goodwin Simon Strategic Research, Inc. $78,925 Polling · Deane & Company $72,951 Legal and accounting · California Democratic Party $57,980 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
Peace Officers Research Association of California PAC (PORAC PAC) Small Contributor Committee
Sacramento		Small contributor cmte$45,700
SEIU California State Council Small Contributor Committee
Sacramento		Small contributor cmte$39,200
California State Association of Electrical Workers Small Contributor Committee
San Francisco		Small contributor cmte$36,300
Minh T. Nguyen
Attorney · Nguyen Theam Lawyers, LLP · Long Beach		Person$29,400
Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. and its Affiliated Entities
Burbank		Business/other$27,960.48
California State Pipe Trades Council Political Action Fund Small Contributor Committee
Sacramento		Small contributor cmte$26,300
California Correctional Peace Officers Association PAC
Sacramento		Committee$26,100
Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP
Burlingame		Business/other$24,600
State Building and Construction Trades Council of California PAC Small Contributor Committee
Sacramento		Small contributor cmte$24,600
Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation
Brooks		Business/other$19,800
Altair Law, PC
San Francisco		Business/other$19,600
Mike Arias
Attorney · Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Team, LLC · Los Angeles		Person$19,600
Todd Becker
Attorney · Becker Law Group · Pasadena		Person$19,600
Building a Stronger Future for California PAC, sponsored by Western States Regional Council of Carpenters SCC
Sacramento		Small contributor cmte$19,600
Deborah Chang
Attorney · Chang Klein, LLP · Redondo Beach		Person$19,600

Committees: Colonel (Ret.) Tom Umberg Senate 2022 Officeholder Account, - Friends Of Tom Umberg, - Tom Umberg For State Senate, Colonel (Ret.) Tom Umberg for Insurance Commissioner 2026, Colonel (Ret.) Tom Umberg for Board of Equalization 2026, Tom Umberg for Senate 2018, Colonel (ret.) Tom Umberg for Senate 2022. From the Secretary of State's Cal-Access export; reports covering 2025–2026.

Outside spending for and against them

$334,532spent supporting them
$0spent opposing them
SpenderAmount
Advance California, Sponsored by California Apartment Association
primary · latest report		for$214,793
JOBSPAC, A BI-PARTISAN COALITION OF CALIFORNIA EMPLOYERS, SPONSORED BY THE CALIFORNIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
primary · latest report		for$100,000
Advance California, Sponsored by California Apartment Association and California Life Sciences
primary · latest report		for$16,185
San Diego Labor Coalition, Sponsored by Laborers' International Union of North America Local 89
primary · latest report		for$3,554

Independent expenditures reported within 24 hours (Form 496), from 2025. The candidate doesn't control them.

Their donors also gave to

Their largest donors who also funded other 2026 state candidates.

DonorTo themCandidates fundedBy party
Peace Officers Research Association of California PAC (PORAC PAC) Small Contributor Committee
Labor union · Sacramento		$45,70023
SEIU California State Council Small Contributor Committee
Labor union · Sacramento		$39,20042
California State Association of Electrical Workers Small Contributor Committee
Labor union · San Francisco		$36,30024
Minh T. Nguyen
Attorney, Nguyen Lawyers · Long Beach		$29,4002
Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. and its Affiliated Entities
Business · Burbank		$27,96012
California State Pipe Trades Council Political Action Fund Small Contributor Committee
Labor union · Sacramento		$26,3002
California Correctional Peace Officers Association PAC
Labor union · Sacramento		$26,10070
Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP
Business · Burlingame		$24,60014
State Building and Construction Trades Council of California PAC Small Contributor Committee
Labor union · Sacramento		$24,60036
Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation
Tribal government · Brooks · registered lobbyist employer		$19,80099
Altair Law, PC
Business · San Francisco		$19,6003
Mike Arias
Attorney, Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Team, LLC · Los Angeles		$19,6004
Todd Becker
Attorney, Becker Law Group · Pasadena		$19,60013
Deborah Chang
Attorney, Chang Klein, LLP · Redondo Beach		$19,6002
Gary Dordick
Attorney, Dordick Law · Beverly Hills		$19,6002