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Bill	Commercial sexual exploitation: child sexual abuse material: civil actions.	Existing law, in a civil action brought by, on behalf of, or for the benefit of a minor, or nonminor dependent, against a person who engaged in an act of commercial sexual exploitation, as defined, of a minor or nonminor dependent, authorizes the trier of fact to either impose a fine, civil penalty, or other penalty, or other remedy in an amount up to 3 times greater than authorized by the statute or to award a civil penalty not exceeding $50,000 and not less than $10,000 for each act of commercial sexual exploitation committed by the defendant if the tier of fact makes an affirmative finding regarding certain factors, including whether the defendant's conduct was directed to more than one minor or nonminor dependent, as prescribed.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1394	California AB 1394 (20232024)	bill	Commercial sexual exploitation child sexual abuse material civil actions	enacted	Wicks	8	26	8	2023-02-17	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/5f8c12bc-0de1-40dd-a867-12054c73bf0e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1394	386627de77d3d33e78744a238220f26947fbff5aa515d117a3ce4e1b2c110644	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1394 (20232024) — Commercial sexual exploitation: child sexual abuse material: civil actions.

Existing law, in a civil action brought by, on behalf of, or for the benefit of a minor, or nonminor dependent, against a person who engaged in an act of commercial sexual exploitation, as defined, of a minor or nonminor dependent, authorizes the trier of fact to either impose a fine, civil penalty, or other penalty, or other remedy in an amount up to 3 times greater than authorized by the statute or to award a civil penalty not exceeding $50,000 and not less than $10,000 for each act of commercial sexual exploitation committed by the defendant if the tier of fact makes an affirmative finding regarding certain factors, including whether the defendant's conduct was directed to more than one minor or nonminor dependent, as prescribed.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/25/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/13/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/08/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1394 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1394 Wicks et al. By Ashby — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1394 Wicks Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1394 Wicks Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wicks — primary (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Flora — author (person)
• Gabriel — coauthor (person)
• Lowenthal — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2023-03-09 Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-04-10 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-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2023-04-12 Coauthors revised.
• 2023-04-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-25 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1736.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1959.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-14 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-07-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-14 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2665.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3439.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 579, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5f8c12bc-0de1-40dd-a867-12054c73bf0e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).