California Law (Last Updated: March 4, 2014) |
Government Code - GOV |
Title 2. GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA |
Division 2. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT |
Part 1. LEGISLATURE |
Chapter 1.5. General |
ARTICLE 3. Crimes Against the Legislative Power |
Section 9053.5.
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(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.
(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1134, Sec. 2.)