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Bill	Crimes: criminal threats.	Existing law makes it a crime to willfully threaten to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement is to be taken as a threat that, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby reasonably causes the threatened person to be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of their immediate family, as defined. Under existing law, this crime is punishable as a misdemeanor or in state prison as a felony.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 352	California AB 352 (20252026)	bill	Crimes criminalthreats	enacted	Pacheco	8	27	8	2025-01-30	2025-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/b4ddabbe-ba39-4280-bdf6-7ea2c8724534	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB352	86b88aace1d0986f6666197c669b63b50bed2f081f1fa61993b544b9b32c2a53	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 352 (20252026) — Crimes: criminal threats.

Existing law makes it a crime to willfully threaten to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement is to be taken as a threat that, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby reasonably causes the threatened person to be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of their immediate family, as defined. Under existing law, this crime is punishable as a misdemeanor or in state prison as a felony.

Version chain

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

1. 01/30/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/12/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/29/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB352 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/10/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 352 Pacheco Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB352 Pacheco By Ashby — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 352 Pacheco Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Pacheco — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-30 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-01-31 From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
• 2025-02-10 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2025-03-05 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2025-03-17 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
• 2025-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 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 77. Noes 0. Page 1821.) 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 Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-06-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-06-24 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 24). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-06-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-07 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-08-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2519.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-04 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3025.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2025-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 554, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b4ddabbe-ba39-4280-bdf6-7ea2c8724534. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).