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type: "Bill"
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title: "Elections: deceptive audio or visual media."
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description: "Existing law, until January 1, 2023, prohibits a person, committee, or other entity, within 60 days of an election at which a candidate for elective office will appear on the ballot, from distributing with actual malice materially deceptive audio or visual media of the candidate with the intent to injure the candidate's reputation or to deceive a voter into voting for or against the candidate, unless the media includes a disclosure stating that the media has been manipulated, subject to specified exemptions."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20212022"
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identifier: "AB 972"
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citation: "California AB 972 (20212022)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Elections: deceptive audio or visual media."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Berman"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 16
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2021-02-18"
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last_action: "2022-09-29"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1677e12c-16bd-4907-8007-2492217825b6"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB972"
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source_hash: "fd481c828cbcc6a059fa63135ca7975b27f3ff55c136197ebcdc881df5807442"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 972 (20212022) — Elections: deceptive audio or visual media.
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Existing law, until January 1, 2023, prohibits a person, committee, or other entity, within 60 days of an election at which a candidate for elective office will appear on the ballot, from distributing with actual malice materially deceptive audio or visual media of the candidate with the intent to injure the candidate's reputation or to deceive a voter into voting for or against the candidate, unless the media includes a disclosure stating that the media has been manipulated, subject to specified exemptions.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/18/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB972&version=20210AB97299INT)
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2. **09/29/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB972&version=20210AB97297CHP)
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3. **AB972** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB972)
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4. **08/25/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB972&version=20210AB97298ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 972 Berman Assembly Third Reading — **54–3** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **3–1** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass — **10–1** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading AB972 Berman By Hertzberg — **33–6** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Berman — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2021-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
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- **2021-03-04** Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-01-12** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (January 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-01-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-01-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 3. Page 3344.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2022-01-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2022-05-04** Referred to Coms. on E. & C.A. and JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (June 21). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-06-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 6. Page 4989.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2022-08-23** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2022-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2022-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2022-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 745, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1677e12c-16bd-4907-8007-2492217825b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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