republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-1134.md

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Bill	Coerced marriage.	(1) Existing law makes it a crime for a person to take a woman unlawfully, against her will, and by force, menace, or duress, compel her to marry that person, to marry any other person, or to be defiled, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 1134	California AB 1134 (20252026)	bill	Coercedmarriage	enacted	Bains	7	29	9	2025-02-20	2025-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/47edd7c2-1b41-4252-b9e8-e4403b644e50	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1134	1369c4af0bb00df47ae18d484aecac23a2e764707214d506fff0fef27ca0ec99	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1134 (20252026) — Coerced marriage.

(1) Existing law makes it a crime for a person to take a woman unlawfully, against her will, and by force, menace, or duress, compel her to marry that person, to marry any other person, or to be defiled, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/10/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/01/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/23/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/11/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1134 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/08/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1134 Bains Assembly Third Reading — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB1134 Bains et al. — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bains — primary (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2025-03-10 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-10 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
• 2025-03-11 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-04-01 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
• 2025-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-22 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-04-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2025-05-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1879.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-11 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2025-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2523.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-04 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2025-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2025-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 633, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/47edd7c2-1b41-4252-b9e8-e4403b644e50. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).