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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 239: Crimes: criminal threats.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 239 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on January 30, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Crimes: criminal threats. Primary sponsor: Jesse Arreguín (D). Most recent recorded action (September 20, 2026): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 412, Statutes of 2026.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law makes it a crime to willfully threaten to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, as specified. Under existing law, this crime is punishable as a misdemeanor or by imprisonment in state prison as a felony. Existing law, for the purposes of sentencing for a felony violation of these provisions, authorizes the court to consider, as a factor in aggravation, that the defendant willfully threatened to commit a crime that would result in the death or great bodily injury of a state constitutional officer, a Member of the Legislature, or a judge or court commissioner, as specified.

This bill would additionally authorize the court to consider, as a factor in aggravation, that the defendant willfully threatened to commit a crime that would result in the death or great bodily injury of an elections official of a city, county, city and county, or public district, or an elected local agency official, as specified.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Jesse ArreguínPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate7

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 412, Statutes of 2026.
  2. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 412, Statutes of 2026.
  3. Approved by the Governor.
  4. Approved by the Governor.
  5. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
  6. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
  7. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 6022.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  8. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  9. From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 5926.)
  10. From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.)
  11. From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 5618.) Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
  12. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d).

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page