AB 32 California Assembly · 2015-2016 Regular Session

Computer crimes.

Summary

Existing law establishes various crimes relating to computer services and systems, including to knowingly and without permission disrupt or cause the disruption of computer services including government computer services or public safety infrastructure computer system computer services, add, alter, damage, delete, or destroy any computer data, software, or program, introduce a computer contaminant, use the Internet domain name or profile of another. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions punishable by specified fines or terms of imprisonment, or by both those fines and imprisonment. This bill would clarify the criminal penalties for specified computer crimes by making a person who violates those provisions guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years and a fine not exceeding $10,000, or a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, by a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment.

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Dec 2014

Committee Review

Sep 2015

Assembly Passage

Apr 2015

Senate Passage

Aug 2015

Signed into Law

Oct 2015

Introduced Dec 1, 2014 Signed Oct 8, 2015

Floor votes · Senate Aug 31, 2015 · Assembly Apr 9, 2015

How they voted

33–0

Passed

Total votes 33

Aug 31, 2015

D Democratic23

23 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican10

10 Yea

100% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Oct 8, 2015

Signed into law

Approved by the Governor.

legislature

Sep 1, 2015

Lower · Passed

Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2745.).

lower

Aug 31, 2015

Senate · Passed

Senate Vote: pass (33-0)

senate

Aug 31, 2015

Introduced

In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.

lower

Aug 17, 2015

Upper · Passed

In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

upper

Jul 15, 2015

Committee

Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

upper

Jul 14, 2015

Introduced

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 7).

upper

May 7, 2015

Committee

Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and APPR.

upper

Apr 9, 2015

Assembly · Passed

Assembly Vote: pass (71-0-1)

assembly

Apr 7, 2015

Lower · Passed

Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

lower

Apr 6, 2015

Introduced

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 24).

lower

Mar 17, 2015

Lower · Passed

In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

lower

Jan 22, 2015

Committee

Referred to Com. on PUB. S.

lower

Dec 2, 2014

Lower · Passed

From printer. May be heard in committee January 1.

lower

1 primary · 1 co-sponsor