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.
Cal. Penal Code § 85
OF CRIMES AGAINST THE LEGISLATIVE POWER
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case United States v. Shen Zhen New World I, LLC (2024)
Most recently applied in United States v. Shen Zhen New World I, LLC (September 2024)
Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 435, Sec. 1
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