The California State Capitol dome illuminated at night

By the time a bill has a number, your options are already priced.

Language for the 2027 session is being drafted right now. That is the window.

Fremgen Strategies gets you into the framework conversation while the language is still being written. Jimmy Fremgen spent fifteen years as the committee staffer writing it.

Registered California Lobbying Firm · U.S. House Oversight Committee · Assembly Business & Professions, Senior Consultant · SXSW 2024 · Board Chair, Relay Resources

Who you are actually hiring

Fremgen Strategies is a registered California lobbying firm working on urgent and stuck issues in the Capitol. Jimmy Fremgen runs every engagement personally — you get the principal, not an account team. Catherine Barankin brings four decades of Capitol relationships to the firm as strategic advisor.

More than fifty years in and around the Capitol, between them. Senior committee staff at the U.S. House Oversight Committee and the California Assembly Committee on Business and Professions, plus multi-state advocacy across twenty-plus states.

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Fremgen Strategies is a registered California lobbying firm (Secretary of State).

Issue Areas

Where we work.

Food & Agriculture

Professional Sports & Entertainment

Oversight & Investigations

Transportation & Mobility

Licensed Professions

Education & Children’s Issues

Milestones

Jimmy Fremgen testifying on AB 1264

Market Access

Negotiated definitions and compliance timelines in AB 1264 (Gabriel, 2025), preserving alternative protein eligibility in California school meal procurement — a $4B market and a $300M state training fund.

California State Assembly floor

Select Committee

Launched the California Select Committee on Alternative Protein Innovation, creating the venue where the sector’s policy now gets written.

Legislative Disability Caucus

Legislative Disability Caucus

Helped launch California’s Legislative Disability Caucus with seven founding members.

California State Capitol dome at sunset

Stopped a Hostile Workers’ Compensation Bill

Killed a workers’ compensation bill threatening client exposure through rapid coalition mobilization and direct legislator engagement — inside three weeks of intervention.

The Head Start

Tell us what you are facing

Let’s discuss the issue, where it actually gets decided, and when.

One call. Straight read.