---
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).