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Bill	Threatening a witness: assisting a prosecution.	Existing law makes it a crime to knowingly and maliciously prevent or dissuade, or attempt to prevent or dissuade, a witness or victim from causing a complaint, indictment, information, or probation or parole violation to be sought and prosecuted, and assisting in the prosecution thereof.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 535	California AB 535 (20252026)	bill	Threateningawitness assistingaprosecution	enacted	Schiavo	4	20	7	2025-02-11	2025-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/a16fb898-9513-47dc-b34c-c30dbfb31338	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB535	499be4c87ac1acd70e27130ae886ce5588b1110d96375977f2884d6f473d55d3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 535 (20252026) — Threatening a witness: assisting a prosecution.

Existing law makes it a crime to knowingly and maliciously prevent or dissuade, or attempt to prevent or dissuade, a witness or victim from causing a complaint, indictment, information, or probation or parole violation to be sought and prosecuted, and assisting in the prosecution thereof.

Version chain

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

1. 02/11/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 10/06/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB535 (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/10/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 535 Schiavo Assembly Third Reading — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB535 Schiavo et al. By Cervantes — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Schiavo — primary (person)
• Schultz — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-12 From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
• 2025-02-24 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-26 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-03-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (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 79. Noes 0. Page 1835.) 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
• 2025-06-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-07 In committee: Referred to APPR. 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
• 2025-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2613.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2025-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2025-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 373, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a16fb898-9513-47dc-b34c-c30dbfb31338. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).