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Bill	Computer crimes: ransomware.	Existing law establishes various crimes relating to computer services and systems, including, but not limited to, knowingly introducing a computer contaminant, as defined. Existing law makes a violation of those crimes punishable by specified fines or terms of imprisonment, or by both those fines and imprisonment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 1137	California SB 1137 (20152016)	bill	Computer crimes: ransomware.	enacted	Hertzberg	8	29	10	2016-02-18	2016-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/7a9286d3-460f-4358-992e-53b97df94ef9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1137	1671c43b181896a704e415de6eb59f887af3bcbd5197b6e67a4ca802adbf1bfc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1137 (20152016) — Computer crimes: ransomware.

Existing law establishes various crimes relating to computer services and systems, including, but not limited to, knowingly introducing a computer contaminant, as defined. Existing law makes a violation of those crimes punishable by specified fines or terms of imprisonment, or by both those fines and imprisonment.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/31/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/01/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/19/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/27/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB1137 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/29/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 1137 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By LOW — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB1137 Hertzberg Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1137 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By INS. Amendment Set #1 — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hertzberg — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Bates — coauthor (person)
• Beall — principal coauthor (person)
• Brough — coauthor (person)
• Cannella — coauthor (person)
• Chang — coauthor (person)
• Chau — coauthor (person)
• Chávez — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Hill — coauthor (person)
• Huff — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• Liu — coauthor (person)
• Lopez — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Maienschein — coauthor (person)
• Obernolte — coauthor (person)
• Stone — coauthor (person)
• Wieckowski — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-02-19 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2016-03-03 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-03-18 Set for hearing April 12.
• 2016-03-28 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-31 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3522.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-15 Set for hearing April 25.
• 2016-04-25 April 25 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2016-05-20 Set for hearing May 27.
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4004.) (May 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4044.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-06-06 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2016-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-03 August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2016-08-12 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5958.) reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6084.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-25 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5404.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2016-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 725, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7a9286d3-460f-4358-992e-53b97df94ef9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).