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Crimes: threats.

Passed first chamber: it can still change before the session ends.

CA AB 237 · Assembly Bill · 2025–2026

Stage
Passed first chamber
Started in
Assembly
Sponsors
2
Latest action
Sep 13, 2025

What it does

Existing law makes it a crime to willfully threaten to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement is to be taken as a threat that, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby reasonably causes the threatened person to be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of their immediate family, as defined. Under existing law, this crime is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for no more than one…

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Where it stands

  1. Introduced (Done)

  2. Committee (Done)

  3. Floor (Current step)

    Passed first chamber · Sep 13, 2025

  4. Law (Not started)

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Who is involved

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Where it goes next

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