republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-701.md

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Bill	Signal jammers.	Federal law prohibits a person from willfully or maliciously interfering with or causing interference to radio communications. Federal law prohibits a person from manufacturing, importing, selling, offering for sale, or shipping a device that interferes with radio communications. Federal law makes a violation of these prohibitions punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or both the fine and imprisonment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 701	California SB 701 (20252026)	bill	Signaljammers	enacted	Wahab	7	27	8	2025-02-21	2025-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/b90c2175-4262-4e69-a2c0-c5a942ab4671	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB701	416ed1355ad172a7a12dda965c89e44d73edfcebe5ec0569e2f84964241f0c54	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 701 (20252026) — Signal jammers.

Federal law prohibits a person from willfully or maliciously interfering with or causing interference to radio communications. Federal law prohibits a person from manufacturing, importing, selling, offering for sale, or shipping a device that interferes with radio communications. Federal law makes a violation of these prohibitions punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or both the fine and imprisonment.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/09/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/03/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/07/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB701 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/12/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 701 Wahab Senate Third Reading By Alanis — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB701 Wahab et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB701 Wahab et al. — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wahab — primary (person)
• Niello — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-21 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2025-02-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2025-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2025-03-12 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-03-27 Set for hearing April 8.
• 2025-04-08 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 709.) (April 8). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-09 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-17 Set for hearing April 28.
• 2025-04-28 April 28 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-05-16 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1210.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-04 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1511.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-05 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-06-16 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-07-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-16 July 16 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2996.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-09-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2719.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 458, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b90c2175-4262-4e69-a2c0-c5a942ab4671. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).