republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-370.md

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Bill	Election campaigns: candidate misrepresentation.	Existing law provides that every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who, with intent to mislead the voters in connection with his or her campaign for nomination or election to a public office, or in connection with the campaign of another person for nomination or election to a public office, assumes, pretends, or implies, by his or her statements or conduct, that he or she is the incumbent of a public office, or has been acting in the capacity of a public officer, when that is not the case.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 370	California AB 370 (20152016)	bill	Election campaigns: candidate misrepresentation.	enacted	Brown	4	17	5	2015-02-17	2015-07-15	openstates	ocd-bill/4235303c-990d-4e98-9179-59f5310010ad	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB370	55e22d01c90fec8f9339e026fd038e4f7f0eee88fbf472846f6314656920dc12	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 370 (20152016) — Election campaigns: candidate misrepresentation.

Existing law provides that every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who, with intent to mislead the voters in connection with his or her campaign for nomination or election to a public office, or in connection with the campaign of another person for nomination or election to a public office, assumes, pretends, or implies, by his or her statements or conduct, that he or she is the incumbent of a public office, or has been acting in the capacity of a public officer, when that is not the case.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/15/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB370 (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/07/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar 2nd — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 370 BROWN Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brown — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2015-03-02 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2015-03-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-15 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-16 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1108.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-07 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2015-06-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-06-29 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2015-06-30 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-07-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1755.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-02 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2015-07-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2015-07-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-07-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 105, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4235303c-990d-4e98-9179-59f5310010ad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).