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.
Christopher M Ward › Form 700
Christopher M Ward: 2025 Annual (amendment) statement
- Annual 2025
- Assembly Member, State Assembly · due 2026-03-02
- Filed
- 2026-03-19 · signed 03/19/2026 03:36 PM
- Source
- Read from the FPPC's structured data, checked against the PDF · the PDF (2 p.) · FPPC portal
Findings
Lobbying reports name $3,174.93 in gifts to them in 2025 from 3 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: Zoological Society of San Diego DBA San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance $2,487 (see attached.); RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA $576.38 (personalized plaque); EQUALITY CALIFORNIA $111.55 (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).
Zoological Society of San Diego DBA San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance $2,487
- 2025-11-01 SEE ATTACHED. at ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO DBA SAN DIEGO ZOO WILDLIFE ALLIANCE $1,457 · lobbyist employer report
- 2025-11-01 SEE ATTACHED. at ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO DBA SAN DIEGO ZOO WILDLIFE ALLIANCE $1,030 · lobbyist employer report
RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA $576.38
- 2025-08-18 PERSONALIZED PLAQUE at JEWEL BOX PLATINUM $576.38 · lobbyist employer report
EQUALITY CALIFORNIA $111.55
- 2025-03-03 FOOD / BEVERAGES at GOLDEN 1 CENTER $62.68 · lobbyist employer report
- 2025-01-24 FOOD / BEVERAGES at INSIDEOUT RESTAURANT $48.87 (of $3,128.22 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
Schedule D · Gifts 1
| From | Gifts | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Jewish Legislative Caucus Leadership Foundation · from the PDF 445 Figueroa Street, Suite 2400, Los Angeles, CA 90071 | 2025-12-23 · Customized Summit Ice Jacket · $197.85 | $197.85 |