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Rebecca Beth Bauer-Kahan › Form 700

Rebecca Beth Bauer-Kahan: 2025 Annual statement

Annual 2025
Assembly Member, State Assembly · due 2026-03-02
Filed
2026-03-02 · signed 03/02/2026 03:45 PM
Source
Read from the FPPC's structured data, checked against the PDF · the PDF (10 p.) · FPPC portal

Findings

Context Travel payments

Lists $5,771.41 in travel paid by others (8 payments)

Largest: Montgomery, Alabama ($1,624.70, JK Irwin Foundation EIN 56-2678107), Asilomar, California ($1,524.64, Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence, UC Berkeley), La Jolla, California ($1,123.59, CA Issues Forum). 8 of 8 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

Worth a look Lobbying

Lobbying reports name $470 in gifts to them in 2025 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 2025, $50 or more from each of these sources, none named among the statement's gifts or travel: STANFORD UNIVERSITY $470 (cal vs. stanford game two tickets and refreshments).

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).
STANFORD UNIVERSITY $470
  • 2025-11-22 Cal vs. Stanford Game two tickets and refreshments at Stanford University $470 (of $940 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 A-1 · Investments (under 10%) 3

NameBusinessValue
Expedia Group Inc.technology$10,001–$100,000
Match Grouponline dating$2,000–$10,000
Trip Advisoronline travel$2,000–$10,000

Schedule B · Real property 1

PropertyValueRental income
96 Monte Cresta Avenue, Oakland, CA 94611
Ownership/Deed of Trust
over $1,000,000$10,001–$100,000
Daniel Lu and I-Wah Chang

Schedule C · Income and business positions 1

SourceIncome
Watermark Insights LLC
Software Development · Chief Product and Technology Officer · 71 West 23rd St., 15th Floor, New York, NY 10010
over $100,000
Spouse's or registered domestic partner's income

Schedule D · Gifts 21

FromGiftsTotal
Women in California Leadership
1700 Tribute Rd, #201, Sacramento CA 95815
2025-01-06 · engraved notebook/pen · $20.54
$20.54
Corey Jackson
1 W Manchester blvd 700, Inglewood CA 90301
2025-10-28 · flowers · $71.32
$71.32
Tides Advocacy/ Smart Justice California EIN 94-3153687 · from the PDF
1100 N street, Suite 6D,
2025-01-14 · reception/dinner · $247.88
$247.88
Teamsters CA
1127 11th st, 512, Sacramento CA 95814
2025-09-01 · book · $21.99
$21.99
California Issues Forum · from the PDF
1717 I street, Sacramento, CA 95811
2025-09-08 · lunch · $16.69
2025-09-02 · lunch · $15.75
2025-08-25 · dinner · $75.84
$108.28
Mike McGuire for Insurance Commissioner 2026 · from the PDF
312 Clay St, #300, Oakland, CA 94607
2025-08-19 · food and drinks · $15.29
$15.29
California LGBTQ Foundation EIN 30-0805115 · from the PDF
1017 L street #107, Sacramento, CA 95814
2025-06-23 · pride gift · $17.33
$17.33
California Beer and Beverage Distributers · from the PDF
1415 L street #256, Sacramento CA 95814
2025-05-07 · lunch · $17
$17
Robert Rivas for Assembly 2026 · from the PDF
1700 Tribute Rd, #201, Sacramento, CA 95815
2025-04-29 · embroidered jacket · $77.58
2025-03-14 · pastries · $15.50
$93.08
California Issues Forum · from the PDF
1717 I steet, Sacramento, CA 95811
2025-06-18 · lunch · $25.66
2025-04-23 · lunch · $16.74
$42.40
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LLNL · from the PDF
7000 East Ave, Livermore CA 94550
2025-05-22 · lunch/ beverage · $22.99
$22.99
CA Jewish Legislative Caucus Leadership Foundation · from the PDF
777 S. Figueroa St, #4050, Los Angeles CA 90017
2025-04-24 · reception/ food · $28.38
$28.38
Papan for Assembly 2026 · from the PDF
5445 Madison Ave, Sacramento CA 95842
2025-03-24 · Pin and chocolates · $19.15
$19.15
Mary Kay Cosmetics · from the PDF
16251 Dallas Parkway, Addison TX 75001
2025-03-18 · personal care · $38
$38
Personal Care Products Council · from the PDF
555 13th St, NW suite 300W, Washington DC 20004
2025-03-18 · reception · $83.28
$83.28
CA Armenian Legislative Caucus Foundation · from the PDF
9458 Treelake Rd, Granite Bay CA 95746
2025-03-24 · fleece · $118.62
$118.62
Rodan + Fields · from the PDF
3001 Bishop dr, #450, San Francisco, CA 94583
2025-03-18 · personal care · $36
$36
California Democratic Party · from the PDF
1890 9th street, Sacramento CA 95811
2025-02-05 · breakfast and lunch · $48.31
2025-05-28 · caucus lunch · $69.47
2025-09-03 · caucus lunch · $73.61
$191.39
California Democratic Party · from the PDF
1830 9th Street, Sacramento CA 95811
2025-12-02 · wine · $54.48
$54.48
CA Foundation on the Environment & the Economy (CFEE) · from the PDF
1029 J st, #300, Sacramento CA 95814
2025-12-04 · lunch · $33.02
2025-12-04 · dinner · $367.12
2025-12-05 · lunch · $83.88
$484.02
Assembly International Relations Foundation · from the PDF
1021 O st, suite 8330, Sacramento CA 95814
2025-07-22 · meal · $221.01
$221.01

Schedule E · Travel paid by others 8

Paid byTripAmount
JK Irwin Foundation EIN 56-2678107 · 501(c)(3)
2500 Steiner St, Unit 8, San Francisco, CA 94115
Montgomery, Alabama · 2025-10-08 to 2025-10-12 · made a speech / panel · Gift$1,624.70
Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence, UC Berkeley · 501(c)(3)
2121 Berkeley way, Office #8029, Berkeley, CA 94720
Asilomar, California · 2025-06-07 to 2025-06-08 · made a speech / panel · Gift$1,524.64
The States Forum · 501(c)(3)
P.O. Box 15845, Washington, District of Columbia 20003
Philadelphia, PA · 2025-07-08 to 2025-07-09 · made a speech / panel · Gift$555.78
CA Issues Forum · 501(c)(3)
1717 I street, Sacramento, CA 95811
La Jolla, California · 2025-12-15 to 2025-12-17 · made a speech / panel · Gift$1,123.59
AI x Geopolitics Project
Bennett Institute of Public Policy, 7 West Road, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB3 9DP, Cambridge, United Kingdom
London & Cambridge, United Kingdom · 2025-07-22 · made a speech / panel · Gift$89.47
California Forever *
5140 Business Center Drive, #240, Fairfield, CA 94534
Sausalito, CA · 2025-01-09 to 2025-01-10 · made a speech / panel · Gift$190.64
Asian and Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus Foundation * · 501(c)(3)
1787 Tribute Rd, Sacramento, CA 95815
Sausalito, CA · 2025-01-09 to 2025-01-10 · made a speech / panel · Gift$542.59
Common Sense Media · 501(c)(3)
699 8th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
San Francisco, CA · 2025-11-06 · made a speech / panel · Gift$120

The filer's comments

E For the AL trip, JK Irwin is the gifting party, with Smart Justice CA, a project of Tides Advocacy (EIN 94-3153687) acting as intermediary

E * The Asian and Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus Foundation acted as an intermediary for payments made by California Forever