Bribery.

Existing law makes it a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years to give or offer to give a bribe to a Member of the Legislature, to a member of the legislative body of a city, county, city and county, school district, or other special district, or to another person for the member, or to attempt by menace, deceit, suppression of truth, or any corrupt means, to influence a member in giving or withholding his or her vote, or in not attending the house or any committee of which he or she is a member. Existing law also makes it a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years and subject to a specified fine, for those members to ask, receive, or agree to receive, any bribe, as specified, or to give, or offer or promise to give, any official vote in consideration that another member shall give this vote either upon the same or another question. This bill would increase the term of imprisonment in the state prison to 5, 6, or 7 years for those crimes.