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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Computer crimes."
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description: "Existing law establishes various crimes relating to computer services and systems, including to knowingly and without permission disrupt or cause the disruption of computer services including government computer services or public safety infrastructure computer system computer services, add, alter, damage, delete, or destroy any computer data, software, or program, introduce a computer contaminant, use the Internet domain name or profile of another. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions punishable by specified fines or terms of imprisonment, or by both those fines and imprisonment."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20152016"
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identifier: "AB 32"
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citation: "California AB 32 (20152016)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Computer crimes."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Waldron"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 24
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2014-12-01"
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last_action: "2015-10-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26750a24-459e-4829-8342-415ba9daf9c5"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB32"
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source_hash: "7477846496eee54d64e09d355d8bf81d1d801e8d65b4eb9a285106c60c90ed6f"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 32 (20152016) — Computer crimes.
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Existing law establishes various crimes relating to computer services and systems, including to knowingly and without permission disrupt or cause the disruption of computer services including government computer services or public safety infrastructure computer system computer services, add, alter, damage, delete, or destroy any computer data, software, or program, introduce a computer contaminant, use the Internet domain name or profile of another. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions punishable by specified fines or terms of imprisonment, or by both those fines and imprisonment.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **12/01/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB32&version=20150AB3299INT)
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2. **04/07/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB32&version=20150AB3298AMD)
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3. **07/15/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB32&version=20150AB3297AMD)
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4. **10/08/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB32&version=20150AB3295CHP)
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5. **AB32** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB32)
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6. **09/03/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB32&version=20150AB3296ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 32 WALDRON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
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- Special Consent #8 AB32 Waldron By Glazer — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 32 WALDRON Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Waldron — primary (person)
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- Allen — coauthor (person)
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- Chávez — coauthor (person)
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- Jones — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2014-12-01** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2014-12-02** From printer. May be heard in committee January 1.
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- **2015-01-22** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-03-17** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **2015-04-06** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 24). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2015-04-07** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-04-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-04-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 854.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-04-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2015-05-07** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and APPR. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-07-14** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 7). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2015-07-15** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-08-17** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2015-08-17** Withdrawn from committee.
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- **2015-08-17** Ordered to second reading.
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- **2015-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-08-26** Ordered to special consent calendar.
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- **2015-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2311.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2015-09-01** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2729.)
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- **2015-09-01** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2745.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2015-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2015-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2015-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 614, Statutes of 2015.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/26750a24-459e-4829-8342-415ba9daf9c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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