Pen. Code, § 85 · Title 6. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE LEGISLATIVE POWER
Pen. Code, § 85
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
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.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 435, Sec. 1. Effective September 24, 2006.
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