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type: "Bill"
title: "Conspiracy against trade: punishment."
description: "Existing law, known as the Cartwright Act, generally regulates trusts, which the act defines as a combination of capital, skill, or acts by 2 or more persons for certain purposes, including to create or carry out restrictions in trade or commerce. If a violator of the act is a corporation, the act punishes the violator by a fine of the greater of an amount not more than $1,000,000 and an amount related to the pecuniary gain from the violation or the pecuniary loss to another by the violation, as prescribed. If a violator of the act is an individual, the act punishes the violator by imprisonment of one, 2, or 3 years in a state prison or county jail, as specified, imprisonment of not more than one year in a county jail, by a fine of not more than the greater of $250,000 and an amount related to the pecuniary gain from the violation or the pecuniary loss to another by the violation, or by both a fine and imprisonment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "SB 763"
citation: "California SB 763 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Conspiracyagainsttrade", "punishment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hurtado"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 29
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-10-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1aa8b30-1cc6-409f-b7db-c91ad2516656"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB763"
source_hash: "280f6b0aacd83b361df207c95b9edba6b63fe0d70bb965359b04c29f7c0edef7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California SB 763 (20252026) — Conspiracy against trade: punishment.
Existing law, known as the Cartwright Act, generally regulates trusts, which the act defines as a combination of capital, skill, or acts by 2 or more persons for certain purposes, including to create or carry out restrictions in trade or commerce. If a violator of the act is a corporation, the act punishes the violator by a fine of the greater of an amount not more than $1,000,000 and an amount related to the pecuniary gain from the violation or the pecuniary loss to another by the violation, as prescribed. If a violator of the act is an individual, the act punishes the violator by imprisonment of one, 2, or 3 years in a state prison or county jail, as specified, imprisonment of not more than one year in a county jail, by a fine of not more than the greater of $250,000 and an amount related to the pecuniary gain from the violation or the pecuniary loss to another by the violation, or by both a 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB763&version=20250SB76399INT)
2. **05/23/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB763&version=20250SB76398AMD)
3. **09/02/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB763&version=20250SB76397AMD)
4. **10/06/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB763&version=20250SB76395CHP)
5. **SB763** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB763)
6. **09/18/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB763&version=20250SB76396ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **51** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **104** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **51** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB763 Hurtado Concurrence — **298** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — **112** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **2910** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — **83** (pass) · lower
- SB 763 Hurtado Senate Third Reading By Kalra — **5320** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **72** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Hurtado — primary (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 Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Set for hearing April 8.
- **2025-04-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 11. Noes 2. Page 707.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-11** Set for hearing April 29.
- **2025-04-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 945.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-02** Set for hearing May 12.
- **2025-05-12** May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2025-05-16** Set for hearing May 23.
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1212.) (May 23). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-04** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 1519.) 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 Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-20** August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (August 29). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 53. Noes 20. Page 3400.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-12** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2025-09-13** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 3020.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2025-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 426, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b1aa8b30-1cc6-409f-b7db-c91ad2516656`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).