--- type: "Bill" title: "Conspiracy against trade: punishment." description: "Existing law, known as the Cartwright Act, generally regulates trusts, which the act defines as a combination of capital, skill, or acts by 2 or more persons for certain purposes, including to create or carry out restrictions in trade or commerce. If a violator of the act is a corporation, the act punishes the violator by a fine of the greater of an amount not more than $1,000,000 and an amount related to the pecuniary gain from the violation or the pecuniary loss to another by the violation, as prescribed. If a violator of the act is an individual, the act punishes the violator by imprisonment of one, 2, or 3 years in a state prison or county jail, as specified, imprisonment of not more than one year in a county jail, by a fine of not more than the greater of $250,000 and an amount related to the pecuniary gain from the violation or the pecuniary loss to another by the violation, or by both a fine and imprisonment." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20252026" identifier: "SB 763" citation: "California SB 763 (20252026)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Conspiracyagainsttrade", "punishment"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Hurtado"] version_count: 6 action_count: 29 vote_count: 10 first_action: "2025-02-21" last_action: "2025-10-06" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1aa8b30-1cc6-409f-b7db-c91ad2516656" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB763" source_hash: "280f6b0aacd83b361df207c95b9edba6b63fe0d70bb965359b04c29f7c0edef7" 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 SB 763 (20252026) — Conspiracy against trade: punishment. Existing law, known as the Cartwright Act, generally regulates trusts, which the act defines as a combination of capital, skill, or acts by 2 or more persons for certain purposes, including to create or carry out restrictions in trade or commerce. If a violator of the act is a corporation, the act punishes the violator by a fine of the greater of an amount not more than $1,000,000 and an amount related to the pecuniary gain from the violation or the pecuniary loss to another by the violation, as prescribed. If a violator of the act is an individual, the act punishes the violator by imprisonment of one, 2, or 3 years in a state prison or county jail, as specified, imprisonment of not more than one year in a county jail, by a fine of not more than the greater of $250,000 and an amount related to the pecuniary gain from the violation or the pecuniary loss to another by the violation, or by both a fine and imprisonment. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/21/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB763&version=20250SB76399INT) 2. **05/23/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB763&version=20250SB76398AMD) 3. **09/02/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB763&version=20250SB76397AMD) 4. **10/06/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB763&version=20250SB76395CHP) 5. **SB763** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB763) 6. **09/18/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB763&version=20250SB76396ENR) ## Votes - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–1** (pass) · upper - Do pass as amended. — **10–4** (pass) · lower - Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass as amended — **5–1** (pass) · upper - Unfinished Business SB763 Hurtado Concurrence — **29–8** (pass) · upper - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — **11–2** (pass) · upper - 3rd Reading — **29–10** (pass) · upper - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — **8–3** (pass) · lower - SB 763 Hurtado Senate Third Reading By Kalra — **53–20** (pass) · lower - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–2** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Hurtado — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-02-21** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction` - **2025-02-24** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24. - **2025-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1` - **2025-03-12** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. `referral-committee` - **2025-03-24** Set for hearing April 8. - **2025-04-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 11. Noes 2. Page 707.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2025-04-11** Set for hearing April 29. - **2025-04-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 945.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2025-05-02** Set for hearing May 12. - **2025-05-12** May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file. - **2025-05-16** Set for hearing May 23. - **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1212.) (May 23). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-06-04** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 1519.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2025-06-05** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1` - **2025-06-16** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. `referral-committee` - **2025-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2025-07-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2025-08-20** August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file. - **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (August 29). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-09-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-09-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 53. Noes 20. Page 3400.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2025-09-12** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. - **2025-09-13** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 3020.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m. - **2025-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2025-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 426, Statutes of 2025. `became-law` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b1aa8b30-1cc6-409f-b7db-c91ad2516656`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).