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AB-955 Bribery.(2017-2018)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 85 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

85.
 Every person who gives or offers to give a bribe to any a  Member of the Legislature, any  to a  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 guilty of a felony  punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three five, six,  or four seven  years.

SEC. 2.

 Section 86 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

86.
 Every Member of either house of the Legislature, or any member of the legislative body of a city, county, city and county, school district, or other special district, who asks, receives, or agrees to receive, any bribe, upon any understanding that his or her official vote, opinion, judgment, or action shall be influenced thereby, or shall give, in any particular manner, or upon any particular side of any question or matter upon which he or she may be required to act in his or her official capacity, or gives, or offers or promises to give, any official vote in consideration that another Member of the Legislature, or another member of the legislative body of a city, county, city and county, school district, or other special district shall give this vote either upon the same or another question, is guilty of a felony  punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, five, six,  or four seven  years and, in cases in which no bribe has been actually received, by a restitution fine of not less than four thousand dollars ($4,000) or not more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) or, in cases in which a bribe was actually received, by a restitution fine of at least the actual amount of the bribe received or four thousand dollars ($4,000), whichever is greater, or any larger amount of not more than double the amount of any bribe received or twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), whichever is greater.
In imposing a fine under this section, the court shall consider the defendant’s ability to pay the fine.