or greater. Income includes your gross income and your
community property interest in your spouse’s or registered
domestic partner’s gross income totaling $500 or more.
Gross income is the total amount of income before deducting
expenses, losses, or taxes. (See Gov. Code Section 82030.)
What is a Loan?
Loans received or outstanding are reportable if they total
$500 or more from a single lender. Your community
property interest in loans received by your spouse or
registered domestic partner also must be reported. (See
Gov. Code Section 82030(a).)
What is a Gift?
A gift is anything of value for which you have not provided
equal or greater consideration to the donor. A gift is
reportable if its fair market value is $50 or more. In
addition, multiple gifts totaling $50 or more received from a
reportable source must be reported.
It is the acceptance of a gift, not the ultimate use to which
it is put, that imposes your reporting obligation. Therefore
you must report a gift even if you never used it or if you
gave it away to another person.
If the exact amount of a gift is not known, you must make a
good faith estimate of the item’s fair market value. Listing
the value of a gift as “over $50” or “value unknown” is not
adequate disclosure.
Commonly reportable gifts include:
• Tickets/passes to sporting or entertainment events
• Tickets/passes to amusement parks
• Parking passes
• Food, beverages, and accommodations, including that
provided in direct connection with your attendance at
a convention, conference, meeting, social event, meal,
or like gathering, where you did not give a speech,
participate in a panel or seminar, or provide a similar
service
• Rebates/discounts not made in the regular course of
business to members of the public without regard to
ofcialstatus
• Wedding gifts
• An honorarium. You may report an honorarium as
income rather than as a gift if you provided services of
equal or greater value than the payment received.
• Transportation and lodging
• Forgiveness of a loan received by you
(See Gov. Code Section 82028.)
FPPC Form 700-U (2009/2010)
FPPC Toll-Free Helpline: 866/ASK-FPPC www.fppc.ca.gov
Who Files Form 700-U?
ThisformmustbeledbyallpersonsemployedbyUCor
CSUwhohaveprincipalresponsibilityforaresearchproject
iftheprojectistobefundedorsupported,inwholeorin
part, by a contract or grant (or other funds earmarked by
thedonorforaspecicresearchprojectorforaspecic
researcher) from a nongovernmental entity.
Reporting requirements are outlined in Regulation 18755.
This regulation provides that research funding by certain
nonprotentitieswillnottriggerdisclosure.Thisregulationis
available on the FPPC website.
What is the Reporting Period?
For"initial"statements,beforethenalacceptanceofthe
contract,grant,orgift,thelermustreportinvestmentsin
and business positions with the sponsor as of the date that
the award is made, and income and gifts received from
the sponsor within the 12 months prior to the date that the
award is made.
For"interim"statements,thelermustsubmitastatement
within 30 days after the contract, grant, or gift is renewed
that discloses reportable investments, income and
businesspositionsthatthelerheldorreceivedduringthe
periodbetweenthedatetheinitialstatementwasledand
thedatetheprojectcontract,grant,orgiftwasrenewed.
What is an Investment?
“Investment”meansanynancialinterestinabusiness
entity in which you, your spouse or registered domestic
partner, or your dependent children have a direct, indirect,
orbenecialinteresttotaling$2,000ormore.Reportable
investments include stocks, bonds, warrants, and options,
including those held in margin or brokerage accounts and
investment funds. Common examples of investment funds
are index funds, exchange-traded funds, and venture capital
funds. (See Gov. Code Section 82034.)
What is Income?
“Income” means a payment received, including but not limited
to any salary, wage, advance, dividend, interest, rent, proceeds
from any sale, gift, including any gift of food or beverage, loan
forgivenessorpaymentofindebtednessreceivedbytheler,
reimbursement for expenses, per diem, or contribution to an
insurance or pension program paid by any person other than
an employer, and any community property interest in income
of a spouse or registered domestic partner. Income also
includes an outstanding loan. Income of an individual also
includes a pro rata share of any income of any business entity
or trust in which the individual, spouse, or registered domestic
partnerownsdirectly,indirectly,orbenecially,a10%interest
Instructions for Completing
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