Blanca N Pacheco: 2025 Annual (amendment) statement

Annual 2025: Assembly Member, State Assembly · due 2026-03-02
Filed: 2026-07-23 · signed 07/23/2026 12:45 PM
Source: Read from the FPPC's structured data, checked against the PDF · the PDF (5 p.) · FPPC portal

Findings

Context Travel payments

Lists $45,432.78 in travel paid by others (11 payments)

Largest: Spain ($16,767.09, California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy), Maui, HI ($5,729.72, Independent Voter Project), Pebble Beach, CA ($4,295.17, Governor's Cup Foundation). 11 of 11 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.

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

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

Worth a look Lobbying

Lobbying reports name $516.77 in gifts to them in 2025 from 4 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: Sempra and its Affiliates: San Diego Gas & Electric Company and Southern California Gas Company $256.43 (beverage, lunch); SIDEPRIZE LLC AND ITS AFFILIATES D/B/A PRIZEPICKS $107.59 (food and beverage); PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY $90.07 (food and beverages); EQUALITY CALIFORNIA $62.68 (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).

Sempra and its Affiliates: San Diego Gas & Electric Company and Southern California Gas Company $256.43

2025-10-02 Beverage at The Conservatory $26 · lobbyist employer report
2025-11-19 Lunch at Morimoto Maui $230.43 · lobbyist employer report

SIDEPRIZE LLC AND ITS AFFILIATES D/B/A PRIZEPICKS $107.59

2025-06-16 Food and Beverage at Camden Spit & Larder $107.59 · lobbyist employer report

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY $90.07

2025-10-25 FOOD AND BEVERAGES at LA MULATA $90.07 · lobbyist employer report

EQUALITY CALIFORNIA $62.68

2025-03-03 FOOD / BEVERAGES at GOLDEN 1 CENTER $62.68 · 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 E · Travel paid by others 11

Paid by	Trip	Amount
California Biotechnology Foundation · 501(c)(3) 1215 K Street. Stuite 970, Sacramento, CA 95814	Boston, MA · 2025-09-24 to 2025-09-27 · Legislative Tour · Gift	$2,468.88
California Border Issues Project · 501(c)(3) 1717 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95811	Mexico · 2025-10-28 to 2025-11-03 · made a speech / panel · Gift	$3,389
California Foundation on the Environment & the Economy · 501(c)(3) 920 11th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814	Napa, California · 2025-02-06 to 2025-02-07 · made a speech / panel · Gift	$998.33
California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy · 501(c)(3) 920 11th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814	Spain · 2025-10-17 to 2025-10-29 · made a speech / panel · Gift	$16,767.09
Foundation for California's Technology and Innovation Economy · 501(c)(3) 777 S. Figueroa St., Suite 4050, Los Angeles, CA 90017	Sausalito, California · 2025-05-22 · Educational Tour · Gift	$379.97
Governor's Cup Foundation · 501(c)(3) P.O. Box 1308, Woodland, CA 95776	Pebble Beach, CA · 2025-07-17 to 2025-07-19 · made a speech / panel · Gift	$4,295.17
ideateLABS · 501(c)(3) 315 W. 9th St. Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA	Portugal · 2025-04-12 to 2025-04-18 · Legislative Tour · Gift	$3,129.89
Foundation for Independent Voter Education · 501(c)(3) 2700 Adams Avenue, Suite 202, San Diego, CA 92116	Mexico · 2025-07-27 to 2025-07-31 · Make it with Mexico cross-border economic and policy conference · Gift	$3,511.52
Independent Voter Project 2700 Adams Avenue, Suite 202, San Diego, CA 92116	Maui, HI · 2025-11-16 to 2025-11-21 · made a speech / panel · Gift	$5,729.72
Shared Energy Future Foundation · 501(c)(3) 1415 L Street, Suite 900, Sacramento, CA 95814	Richmond, California · 2025-08-07 to 2025-08-08 · Legislative Tour · Gift	$1,078.53
The Council of State Governments West · 501(c)(3) 1130 K St. Ste. 320, Sacramento, CA	Colorado Springs, Colorado · 2025-12-16 to 2025-12-19 · Legislative Academy · Gift	$3,684.68

The filer's comments

E Amendments correct source of travel to Mexico in July, and description of source and description of purposes of travel to Hawaii in November.