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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Sexual battery: nonconsensual condom removal."
+description: "Existing law provides that a person commits a sexual battery who, among other things, acts with the intent to cause a harmful or offensive contact, as defined, with an intimate part, as defined, of another that directly or indirectly results in a sexually offensive contact with that person. The law makes a person who commits a sexual battery pursuant to those provisions liable for damages and equitable relief."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20212022"
+identifier: "AB 453"
+citation: "California AB 453 (20212022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Sexual battery: nonconsensual condom removal."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cristina Garcia"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2021-02-08"
+last_action: "2021-10-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad96a2fc-bbea-42d0-89eb-5e9ac93b231a"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB453"
+source_hash: "3fcf37b6ac9e0d0cc42295eb2467c2f21feb82b0d5f781dccc00d626235e6f34"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 453 (20212022) — Sexual battery: nonconsensual condom removal.
+
+Existing law provides that a person commits a sexual battery who, among other things, acts with the intent to cause a harmful or offensive contact, as defined, with an intimate part, as defined, of another that directly or indirectly results in a sexually offensive contact with that person. The law makes a person who commits a sexual battery pursuant to those provisions liable for damages and equitable relief.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/08/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB453&version=20210AB45399INT)
+2. **05/28/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB453&version=20210AB45398AMD)
+3. **10/07/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB453&version=20210AB45396CHP)
+4. **AB453** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB453)
+5. **09/09/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB453&version=20210AB45397ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 453 Cristina Garcia Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **73–0** (pass) · lower
+- Special Consent AB453 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 453 Cristina Garcia Assembly Third Reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cristina Garcia — primary (person)
+- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
+- **2021-02-18** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-13** Coauthors revised.
+- **2021-04-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 13). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-04-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1066.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2021-05-12** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-21** In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-08-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-08-31** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2021-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2389.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-09-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2021-09-07** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2843.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2021-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 613, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad96a2fc-bbea-42d0-89eb-5e9ac93b231a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+