republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-1979.md

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Bill	Doxing Victims Recourse Act.	Existing law makes it a crime for a person who, with the intent to place another person in reasonable fear for that other person's safety, or the safety of the other person's immediate family, by means of an electronic communication device, and without consent of the other person, and for the purpose of imminently causing that other person unwanted contact, injury, or harassment by a third party, distributes personal identifying information that would be likely to incite or produce that unlawful action. Existing law makes this a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in a county jail or by a fine of not more than $1,000.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1979	California AB 1979 (20232024)	bill	Doxing Victims Recourse Act	enacted	Ward	7	25	7	2024-01-30	2024-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/643307e0-1a93-4952-b913-5d0d9bf56ad2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1979	524fbf9f84675eb41d3143b21f5e0d6f391376cd5bd42c0f0774e74e427c54a2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1979 (20232024) — Doxing Victims Recourse Act.

Existing law makes it a crime for a person who, with the intent to place another person in reasonable fear for that other person's safety, or the safety of the other person's immediate family, by means of an electronic communication device, and without consent of the other person, and for the purpose of imminently causing that other person unwanted contact, injury, or harassment by a third party, distributes personal identifying information that would be likely to incite or produce that unlawful action. Existing law makes this a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in a county jail or by a fine of not more than $1,000.

Version chain

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

1. 01/30/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/03/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/16/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/25/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1979 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/28/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1979 Ward et al. By Wiener — 32–5 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 1979 Ward Assembly Third Reading — 61–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ward — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — author (person)
• Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Cervantes — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-30 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-01-31 From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.
• 2024-03-18 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-03-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-03-19 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-04-02 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 2). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-03 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-04-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-05-16 Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (May 16). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 1. Page 5560.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-06-05 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-07-01 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 5.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2024-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2024-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 557, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/643307e0-1a93-4952-b913-5d0d9bf56ad2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).