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Buffy Wicks › Form 700

Buffy Wicks: 2024 Annual statement

Annual 2024
Assembly Member, State Assembly · due 2025-03-03
Filed
2025-03-03 · signed 03/03/2025 04:45 PM
Source
Read from the FPPC's structured data, checked against the PDF · the PDF (6 p.) · FPPC portal

Findings

Worth a look Gifts

Lists $593.48 in gifts from California Democratic Party in 2024; the limit from one source is $590

The statement lists 6 gift(s) from California Democratic Party dated in 2024, totalling $593.48. The gift limit from a single source was $590 for 2024 (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.

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

Lobbying reports name $82.90 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: EQUALITY CALIFORNIA $82.90 (food / beverages).

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).
EQUALITY CALIFORNIA $82.90
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

Schedule A-2 · Businesses & trusts (10% or more) 1

Rise Strategies Sole Proprietorship

Public Affairs and Strategy · 6225 Hillegass Ave, Oakland CA 94618 · Founder

Value $0–$1,999 · gross income over $100,000

Sources of $10,000+: Center for Secure and Modern Elections; Center for Community Change

Schedule C · Income and business positions 2

SourceIncome
Pano AI
VP of Global Government Affairs · 3130 20th St, #175, San Francisco CA 94110		over $100,000
Spouse's or registered domestic partner's income
Rise Strategies
Founder · 6225 Hillegass Ave, Oakland CA 94618		over $100,000
Other: 1099 - see schedule A-2

Schedule D · Gifts 8

FromGiftsTotal
California Democratic Party
1830 9th Street, Sacramento, CA 95811
2024-01-16 · Food and drinks · $27.03
2024-01-17 · Food and drinks · $66.55
2024-01-25 · Lunch · $65
$158.58
Robert Rivas for Assembly 2024
1700 Tribute Road, Suite 201, Sacramento, CA 95815
2024-01-03 · Food and drinks · $87.12
2024-01-17 · Personalized coffee mug · $19.75
2024-02-21 · Lunch · $22.96
$129.83
Corey Jackson
1 W. Manchester Blvd., Suite 700, Inglewood, CA 90301
2024-08-12 · Birthday flowers · $70.67
$70.67
California Democratic Party
1830 9th Street, Sacramento, CA 95811
2024-03-19 · Lunch · $70.74
2024-11-06 · Dinner · $199.62
2024-11-07 · Lunch · $164.54
$434.90
Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California
1270 S Alfred Street, #35282, Los Angeles, CA 90035
2024-05-14 · Food and drinks · $48.55
$48.55
Senator Bill Dodd
5445 Madison Ave., Sacramento, CA 95841
2024-10-28 · Bottle of wine · $40
$40
Repsol Energy Company
C/Mendez Alvaro, 44, 28045, Madrid
2024-07-10 · Meal · $171
$171
U.S.-Spain Council
Serrano Galvache, 26, Torre Sur 8^a, 28033, Madrid
2024-07-09 · Meal · $97
2024-07-09 · Museum Tickets · $21
$118

Schedule E · Travel paid by others 4

Paid byTripAmount
*Asian and Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus Foundation, C/O Deane and Company · 501(c)(3)
1787 Tribute Road, Sacramento, CA 95815		Sausalito, California · 2024-01-04 to 2024-01-05 · Lodging and meals related to a policy event · Gift$491.72
*United Food and Commercial Workers Western States Council · 501(c)(3)
8530 Stanton Avenue, Buena Park, CA 90620		Sausalito, California · 2024-01-04 to 2024-01-05 · Lodging and meals related to a policy event · Gift$160.86
*Republic Services
6800 Kroll Center Parkway, Suite 320, Pleasanton, CA 94566		Sausalito, California · 2024-01-04 to 2024-01-05 · Lodging and meals related to a policy event · Gift$160.86
*California Apartment Association · 501(c)(3)
980 9th Street, #1430, Sacramento, CA 95814		Sausalito, California · 2024-01-04 to 2024-01-05 · Lodging and meals related to a policy event · Gift$160.86

The filer's comments

E *Asian and Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus Foundation served as an intermediary for these payments

Where the portal and the PDF differ

The FPPC's structured data and our reading of the PDF disagree on these. The page shows the portal's version; the PDF is the filed original.

WherePortalPDF
Businesses & trusts · income_sources ["Center for Secure and Modern Elections","Center for Community Change"]["Center for Secure and Modern Elections Center for Community Change"]