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Bill	Sexual battery.	Existing law prohibits the touching of any intimate part of another person for the purpose of sexual arousal, gratification, or abuse, under specified circumstances, including if the victim is unconscious of the nature of the act because the perpetrator fraudulently represented that the touching served a professional purpose. A violation of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor or as a felony by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years, and by a fine not exceeding $10,000. Existing law requires, in the case of a felony conviction for a violation of these provisions, the fact that the defendant was an employer and the victim was an employee of the defendant to be a factor in aggravation in sentencing.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 848	California AB 848 (20252026)	bill	Sexualbattery	enacted	Soria	7	27	8	2025-02-19	2025-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/035081f0-cd5c-4376-93f0-b0726b856b95	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB848	e423a14f20a9f7931d5efb5931e94f9e3b9327e52223b6b4414c199a758bfe26	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 848 (20252026) — Sexual battery.

Existing law prohibits the touching of any intimate part of another person for the purpose of sexual arousal, gratification, or abuse, under specified circumstances, including if the victim is unconscious of the nature of the act because the perpetrator fraudulently represented that the touching served a professional purpose. A violation of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor or as a felony by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years, and by a fine not exceeding $10,000. Existing law requires, in the case of a felony conviction for a violation of these provisions, the fact that the defendant was an employer and the victim was an employee of the defendant to be a factor in aggravation in sentencing.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/28/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/11/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB848 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/10/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 848 Soria Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 848 Soria Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Soria — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2025-03-03 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-18 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
• 2025-03-19 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-04-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2025-04-24 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-28 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-29 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. 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 77. Noes 0. Page 1858.) 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: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (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: 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 2522.). 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 78. Noes 0. Page 3032.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2025-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 625, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/035081f0-cd5c-4376-93f0-b0726b856b95. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).