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Cal. Penal Code § 85
Current through 2025–2026 Regular Session (leginfo weekly dump, 2026-07-12)
Part of Title 6: Of Crimes Against the Legislative Power, California Penal Code.
Full text of Cal. Penal Code § 85
Statutory text current through the 2025–2026 Regular Session (leginfo weekly dump, 2026-07-12). This publication reproduces the official statutory text; it is not the official statutes of the State of California.
Every person who gives or offers to give a bribe to any Member of the Legislature, any member of the legislative body of a city, county, city and county, school district, or other special district, or to another person for the member, or attempts by menace, deceit, suppression of truth, or any corrupt means, to influence a member in giving or withholding his or her vote, or in not attending the house or any committee of which he or she is a member, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three or four years.
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