republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-1104.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "The California Political Cyberfraud Abatement Act."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1104"
citation: "California AB 1104 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["The California Political Cyberfraud Abatement Act."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chau"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-02-17"
last_action: "2017-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5bd7068d-57d3-4e25-8d54-bec51a771204"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1104"
source_hash: "0c9314aa9cb906f283adad17c183e676d89782ae0a2f7d2a460daf02392d3331"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1104&version=20170AB110499INT)
2. **04/19/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1104&version=20170AB110498AMD)
3. **10/12/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1104&version=20170AB110496CHP)
4. **AB1104** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1104)
5. **09/13/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1104&version=20170AB110497ENR)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5bd7068d-57d3-4e25-8d54-bec51a771204`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).