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.
Joe Patterson › Form 700
Joe Patterson: 2025 Annual (amendment) statement
- Annual 2025
- Assembly Member, State Assembly · due 2026-03-02
- Filed
- 2026-08-26 · signed 08/26/2026 02:19 PM
- Source
- Read from the FPPC's structured data, checked against the PDF · the PDF (2 p.) · FPPC portal
Findings
Lobbying reports name $379.38 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: PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY $205.12 (food and beverages); CALIFORNIA COMMERCE CLUB $87.13 (dinner); WESTERN ENERGY FREEDOM ACTION $87.13 (dinner).
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).
PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY $205.12
- 2025-09-30 FOOD AND BEVERAGES at OAK DOOR $205.12 · lobbyist employer report
CALIFORNIA COMMERCE CLUB $87.13
- 2025-11-17 DINNER at GATHER ON MAUI $87.13 · lobbyist employer report
WESTERN ENERGY FREEDOM ACTION $87.13
- 2025-11-17 DINNER at GATHER ON MAUI $87.13 · 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 1
| Paid by | Trip | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 · transportation, meals, and lodging for Make it With Mexico economic policy conference · Gift | $4,011.52 |