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Bill	Crimes: distribution of intimate images.	Existing law defines certain acts as disorderly conduct, punishable as a misdemeanor. Under existing law, it is disorderly conduct to intentionally distribute or cause to be distributed the image of the intimate body part or parts of another identifiable person, or an image of the person depicted engaged in an act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, sexual penetration, or an image of masturbation by the person depicted or in which the person depicted participates, under circumstances in which the persons agree or understand that the image shall remain private, the person distributing the image knows or should know that distribution of the image will cause serious emotional distress, and the person depicted suffers that distress.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 926	California SB 926 (20232024)	bill	Crimes distribution of intimate images	enacted	Wahab	9	37	9	2024-01-12	2024-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/afafa416-62bc-456c-90d1-704ff5ff15ae	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB926	856518247cfac37a356c0163d0307bf912f2f190e39e0b3b5e7c4211fa3ba754	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 926 (20232024) — Crimes: distribution of intimate images.

Existing law defines certain acts as disorderly conduct, punishable as a misdemeanor. Under existing law, it is disorderly conduct to intentionally distribute or cause to be distributed the image of the intimate body part or parts of another identifiable person, or an image of the person depicted engaged in an act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, sexual penetration, or an image of masturbation by the person depicted or in which the person depicted participates, under circumstances in which the persons agree or understand that the image shall remain private, the person distributing the image knows or should know that distribution of the image will cause serious emotional distress, and the person depicted suffers that distress.

Version chain

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

1. 01/12/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/24/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/16/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/19/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/22/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/19/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB926 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/04/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent SB926 Wahab et al. — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB926 Wahab et al. — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 926 Wahab Senate Third Reading By McCarty — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wahab — primary (person)
• Becker — author (person)
• Dixon — coauthor (person)
• Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)
• Schiavo — coauthor (person)
• Weber — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-12 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-01-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 12.
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2024-03-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-03-21 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2024-03-21 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2024-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on PUB S. referral-committee
• 2024-04-05 Set for hearing April 23.
• 2024-04-23 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3729.) (April 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-24 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-26 Set for hearing May 6.
• 2024-05-06 May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2024-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3964.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered 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 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2024-05-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4208.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-06-03 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2024-06-18 Coauthors revised.
• 2024-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-07-03 Coauthors revised.
• 2024-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-07 August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 15). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-22 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6715.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-08-29 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2024-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5747.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 289, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/afafa416-62bc-456c-90d1-704ff5ff15ae. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).