California Penal Code

§ 13680

PEN § 13680 Effective Jan 1, 2024Title 4.9 · Part 4

Statute text

For purposes of this title, the following terms have the following meanings:

(a)“Genocide” means any of the following acts committed with specific intent to destroy, in whole or substantially in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group through means including killing or causing serious bodily injury to members of the group, causing permanent impairment of the mental faculties of members of the group through drugs, torture, or similar means, subjecting the group to conditions of life that are intended to cause the physical destruction of the group, in whole or in part, imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

(b)“Hate crime” has the same meaning as is Section 422.55.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 131, Sec. 164. (AB 1754) Effective January 1, 2024.