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Bill	Immigrants: extortion.	Existing law defines extortion as the obtaining of property from another, with consent, or the obtaining of an official act of a public officer, induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official right. Existing law further provides that fear sufficient to constitute extortion may be induced by certain threats, including a threat to accuse the threatened individual, or his or her relative or family, of a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 524	California AB 524 (20132014)	bill	Immigrants: extortion.	enacted	Mullin	6	22	7	2013-02-20	2013-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/52282103-237a-44b3-8fbe-5cbfd67d922c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB524	8d45e3b8a5bd92bb242e63c11d8187b2e838c2347737155b6c79c968e70a6991	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 524 (20132014) — Immigrants: extortion.

Existing law defines extortion as the obtaining of property from another, with consent, or the obtaining of an official act of a public officer, induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official right. Existing law further provides that fear sufficient to constitute extortion may be induced by certain threats, including a threat to accuse the threatened individual, or his or her relative or family, of a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/01/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/24/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/05/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB524 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/12/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 13–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 524 MULLIN Assembly Third Reading — 55–18 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB524 Mullin By Correa — 29–8 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 5–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mullin — primary (person)
• Alejo — coauthor (person)
• Padilla — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)
• Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
• Yee — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2013-03-04 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2013-04-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2013-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-04-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-05-24 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) . committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 18. Page 1744.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-06-13 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2013-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-08-12 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2013-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 2248.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-09 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2013-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2013-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 572, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/52282103-237a-44b3-8fbe-5cbfd67d922c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).