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Bill	The California Political Cyberfraud Abatement Act.	Existing law makes it unlawful for a person, with intent to mislead, deceive, or defraud, to commit an act of political cyberfraud, as defined. Existing law defines the term "political cyberfraud" to include a knowing and willful act concerning a political Web site that is committed with the intent to deny a person access to a political Web site, deny a person the opportunity to register a domain name for a political Web site, or to cause a person reasonably to believe that a political Web site has been posted by a person other than the person who posted the Web site, and would cause a reasonable person, after reading the Web site, to believe the site actually represents the view of the proponent or opponent of a ballot measure. Existing law also defines the term "political Web site" to mean an Internet Web site that urges or appears to urge the support or opposition of a ballot measure.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1104	California AB 1104 (20172018)	bill	The California Political Cyberfraud Abatement Act.	enacted	Chau	5	23	8	2017-02-17	2017-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/5bd7068d-57d3-4e25-8d54-bec51a771204	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1104	0c9314aa9cb906f283adad17c183e676d89782ae0a2f7d2a460daf02392d3331	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1104 (20172018) — The California Political Cyberfraud Abatement Act.

Existing law makes it unlawful for a person, with intent to mislead, deceive, or defraud, to commit an act of political cyberfraud, as defined. Existing law defines the term "political cyberfraud" to include a knowing and willful act concerning a political Web site that is committed with the intent to deny a person access to a political Web site, deny a person the opportunity to register a domain name for a political Web site, or to cause a person reasonably to believe that a political Web site has been posted by a person other than the person who posted the Web site, and would cause a reasonable person, after reading the Web site, to believe the site actually represents the view of the proponent or opponent of a ballot measure. Existing law also defines the term "political Web site" to mean an Internet Web site that urges or appears to urge the support or opposition of a ballot measure.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/19/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/12/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB1104 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/13/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Elections and Constitutional Amendments] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1104 Chau By Allen — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Elections and Redistricting] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1104 CHAU Assembly Third Reading — 73–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chau — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2017-03-09 Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and E. & R. referral-committee
• 2017-03-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-04-17 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-04-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-20 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (May 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 2. Page 1887.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-14 Referred to Coms. on JUD., E. & C.A. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E. & C.A. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2701.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2017-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2017-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 715, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5bd7068d-57d3-4e25-8d54-bec51a771204. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).