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Bill	Contempt of court: victim intimidation.	Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to willfully disobey the terms, as written, of a process or court order or out-of-state court order, lawfully issued by a court. Under existing law, if a person violates this provision by willfully contacting a victim by telephone or mail or directly and has a prior conviction for stalking, as defined, the person is punished by not more than one year in county jail, a fine of $5,000, or both that fine and imprisonment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 764	California AB 764 (20212022)	bill	Contempt of court: victim intimidation.	enacted	Cervantes	6	23	8	2021-02-16	2021-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/ab5f0fad-0ea1-42b2-a4f6-542a609857e7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB764	e762bef82cfb0907c7eb8a8971673fc411ef2bd12e3c2cfe25b14d780d3eca5c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 764 (20212022) — Contempt of court: victim intimidation.

Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to willfully disobey the terms, as written, of a process or court order or out-of-state court order, lawfully issued by a court. Under existing law, if a person violates this provision by willfully contacting a victim by telephone or mail or directly and has a prior conviction for stalking, as defined, the person is punished by not more than one year in county jail, a fine of $5,000, or both that fine and imprisonment.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/15/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/08/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB764 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/09/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 764 Cervantes Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 764 Cervantes Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB764 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cervantes — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-03-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 28). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1330.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-05-19 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 13). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2391.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-07 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2847.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 704, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ab5f0fad-0ea1-42b2-a4f6-542a609857e7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).