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Christopher M Ward › Form 700

Christopher M Ward: 2024 Annual (amendment) statement

Annual 2024
Assembly Member, State Assembly · due 2025-03-03
Filed
2025-03-17 · signed 03/17/2025 04:02 PM
Source
Read from the FPPC's structured data, checked against the PDF · the PDF (2 p.) · FPPC portal

Findings

Context Travel payments

Lists $7,234 in travel paid by others (1 payment)

Largest: Travel to and from Sacramento ($7,234, San Diego Airport Authority). 1 of 1 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 $976.01 in gifts to them in 2024 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 2024, $50 or more from each of these sources, none named among the statement's gifts or travel: Association of California Life & Health Insurance Companies $472.28 (food & beverage (speaker exception)); SAN MANUEL BAND OF MISSION INDIANS $226.83 (food and beverages); EQUALITY CALIFORNIA $182.90 (food / beverages); Reyes Holdings L.L.C. $94 (food, beverage, glassware).

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).
Association of California Life & Health Insurance Companies $472.28
SAN MANUEL BAND OF MISSION INDIANS $226.83
EQUALITY CALIFORNIA $182.90
Reyes Holdings L.L.C. $94
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 byTripAmount
San Diego Airport Authority
3665 N. Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA
Travel to and from Sacramento · 2024-01-03 to 2024-12-31 · Parking for legislative purposes · Gift$7,234