CA SB 763
enactedConspiracy against trade: punishment.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
Quick answers
Did CA SB 763 pass?
Yes. CA SB 763 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-06. Latest recorded action (2025-10-06): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 426, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA SB 763 about?
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. This bill would increase the fine described above with respect to corporate violators to $6,000,000. The bill would also increase the fine described above with respect to an individual violator to $1,000,000. The bill would impose an additional civil penalty of $1,000,000 on a person, corporation, or business entity for violating the act, as prescribed. The bill would also make a technical change.
Who sponsors CA SB 763?
Hurtado is the primary sponsor of CA SB 763.
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. This bill would increase the fine described above with respect to corporate violators to $6,000,000. The bill would also increase the fine described above with respect to an individual violator to $1,000,000. The bill would impose an additional civil penalty of $1,000,000 on a person, corporation, or business entity for violating the act, as prescribed. The bill would also make a technical change.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-21
- Latest action
- 2025-10-06 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 426, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Hurtadoauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2025-02-21
Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2025-02-24
Read first time.
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2025-02-24
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
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.
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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.
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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).
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2025-05-23
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
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2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-06-04
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 1519.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2025-06-05
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2025-06-16
Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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2025-09-02
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
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2025-09-03
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-12
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 53. Noes 20. Page 3400.) Ordered to the Senate.
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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.
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2025-09-23
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
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2025-10-06
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-06
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 426, Statutes of 2025.
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Votes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety]
2025-04-08 · pass · 11-2
Member-level votes (13)
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Laird: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Allen: yes
- Stern: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Niello: no
- Valladares: no
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-29 · pass · 5-1
Member-level votes (6)
- Arreguín: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Seyarto: no
Placed on suspense file
2025-05-12 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Wahab: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Caballero: yes
Do pass as amended
2025-05-23 · pass · 5-1
Member-level votes (7)
- Caballero: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Seyarto: no
- Dahle: other
3rd Reading
2025-06-04 · pass · 29-10
Member-level votes (40)
- Durazo: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Limón: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Allen: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Stern: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Becker: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Laird: yes
- Jones: no
- Valladares: no
- Strickland: no
- Seyarto: no
- Alvarado-Gil: no
- Ochoa Bogh: no
- Choi: no
- Dahle: no
- Niello: no
- Grove: no
- Reyes: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety]
2025-07-01 · pass · 8-3
Member-level votes (12)
- Connolly: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Papan: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Macedo: no
- Dixon: no
- Sanchez: no
- Pacheco: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-15 · pass · 7-2
Member-level votes (9)
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Haney: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Lackey: no
- Alanis: no
Do pass as amended.
2025-08-29 · pass · 10-4
Member-level votes (15)
- Elhawary: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Solache: yes
- Sanchez: no
- Ta: no
- Tangipa: no
- Dixon: no
- Pacheco: other
SB 763 Hurtado Senate Third Reading By Kalra
2025-09-13 · pass · 53-20
Member-level votes (80)
- Ahrens: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ward: yes
- Haney: yes
- Hart: yes
- Fong: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Soria: yes
- Berman: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Papan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Lee: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Zbur: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Krell: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Johnson: no
- Dixon: no
- Jeff Gonzalez: no
- Castillo: no
- Alanis: no
- Wallis: no
- Patterson: no
- Ta: no
- Hoover: no
- Gallagher: no
- Macedo: no
- Ellis: no
- Davies: no
- DeMaio: no
- Hadwick: no
- Tangipa: no
- Lackey: no
- Sanchez: no
- Chen: no
- Flora: no
- Michelle Rodriguez: other
- Nguyen: other
- Blanca Rubio: other
- Petrie-Norris: other
- Pacheco: other
- Calderon: other
- Bains: other
Unfinished Business SB763 Hurtado Concurrence
2025-09-13 · pass · 29-8
Member-level votes (40)
- Richardson: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Stern: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Limón: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Becker: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Allen: yes
- Laird: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- McGuire: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Niello: no
- Strickland: no
- Seyarto: no
- Jones: no
- Dahle: no
- Ochoa Bogh: no
- Alvarado-Gil: no
- Grove: no
- Gonzalez: other
- Valladares: other
- Choi: other
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