California Government Code

§ 9053.5

GOV § 9053.5Div. 2 · Title 2 · Part 1 · Ch. 1.5 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)Every person who intentionally, maliciously, with knowledge of the falsity, and with intent to defame a particular legislator, publishes or causes to be published any writing which purports to be a facsimile of an actual bill or resolution, or any part thereof, of the California Legislature, which is not an exact copy of a bill or resolution, or part thereof, which has been introduced in the Legislature, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b)This section shall not apply to the print media, the electronic media, or to news services.

Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1134, Sec. 2.