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.
Ricardo Lara › Form 700
Ricardo Lara: 2024 Annual (amendment) statement
- Annual 2024
- Insurance Commissioner · due 2025-03-03
- Annual 2024
- California Catastrophe Response Council Member, California Catastrophe Response Council · due 2025-04-01
- Annual 2024
- Governing Board, Earthquake Authority · due 2025-04-01
- Filed
- 2025-08-19 · signed 08/19/2025 12:25 PM
- Source
- Read from the FPPC's structured data, checked against the PDF · the PDF (3 p.) · FPPC portal
Findings
Lobbying reports name $423.28 in gifts to them in 2024 from 2 sources 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: SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY $270 (tickets - sdsu men's basketball game); Sempra and its Affiliates: San Diego Gas & Electric Company and Southern California Gas Company $153.28 (dinner, snack on cfee study tour spring 2024).
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).
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY $270
- 2024-03-15 Tickets - SDSU Men's Basketball Game at San Diego State University $270 · lobbyist employer report
Sempra and its Affiliates: San Diego Gas & Electric Company and Southern California Gas Company $153.28
- 2024-03-23 Snack on CFEE Study Tour Spring 2024 at The Langham Hotel $16 · lobbyist employer report
- 2024-03-29 Snack on CFEE Study Tour Spring 2024 at The Green Man $12 · lobbyist employer report
- 2024-04-22 Dinner at Bavel $125.28 · 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
Schedule D · Gifts 1
| From | Gifts | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy (CFEE) · from the PDF 920 11th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814 | 2024-03-30 · Policy Photo Book · $320 | $320 |