Bill Text: CA AB2673 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Crimes: unlawful disclosure of communications.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-20 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Failed passage. [AB2673 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB2673-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2673	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nielsen

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 637 of the Penal Code, relating to crimes.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2673, as introduced, Nielsen. Crimes: unlawful disclosure of
communications.
   Existing law generally makes it a crime for a person not a party
to a telegraphic or telephonic communication addressed to another
person to willfully disclose that communication without consent of
that other person.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 637 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   637.  Every person not a party to a telegraphic or telephonic
communication who willfully discloses the contents of a telegraphic
or telephonic message, or any part thereof, addressed to another
person, without the permission of  such   that
 person, unless directed so to do by the lawful order of a
court, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, or in the
county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding five
thousand dollars ($5,000), or by both fine and imprisonment.