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Bill	Wires: unlawful removal.	Under existing law it is a crime for any person to unlawfully and maliciously take down, remove, injure, or obstruct any line of telegraph, telephone, or cable television, or any other line used to conduct electricity, or any part thereof, or appurtenances or apparatus connected therewith, or to sever any wire, or make any unauthorized connection with any line, other than a telegraph, telephone, or cable television line, used to conduct electricity. Under existing law a violation of these provisions is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed 16 months, 2 or 3 years, or by a fine not exceeding $500, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1782	California AB 1782 (20132014)	bill	Wires: unlawful removal.	enacted	Chesbro	7	26	6	2014-02-18	2014-09-15	openstates	ocd-bill/b1a482c0-3ffd-421d-8b8b-092ea1bb6d37	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1782	b50d001f84a06df0e61e4ae3be8e6cf40f1c9a3387f886f712c8cc9528ae1ebb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1782 (20132014) — Wires: unlawful removal.

Under existing law it is a crime for any person to unlawfully and maliciously take down, remove, injure, or obstruct any line of telegraph, telephone, or cable television, or any other line used to conduct electricity, or any part thereof, or appurtenances or apparatus connected therewith, or to sever any wire, or make any unauthorized connection with any line, other than a telegraph, telephone, or cable television line, used to conduct electricity. Under existing law a violation of these provisions is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed 16 months, 2 or 3 years, or by a fine not exceeding $500, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/18/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/22/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/01/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/19/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/15/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1782 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/18/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1782 Chesbro By Fuller — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1782 CHESBRO Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1782 CHESBRO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chesbro — primary (person)
• Gatto — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2014-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2014-02-27 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2014-03-25 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2014-04-21 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-04-22 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2014-04-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-08 From consent calendar.
• 2014-05-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2014-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4998.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-05-28 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2014-06-18 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-06-19 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-08-04 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2014-08-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4420.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6043.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2014-09-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 332, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b1a482c0-3ffd-421d-8b8b-092ea1bb6d37. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).