SB 763 (Hurtado D) Conspiracy against trade: punishment.

Current Text: Chaptered: 10/6/2025 html pdf
Last Amend: 9/2/2025
Status: 10/6/2025-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 426, Statutes
of 2025.
Location: 10/6/2025-S. CHAPTERED
Summary: The Cartwright Act generally regulates trusts, which the act defines as a combination of
capital, skill, or acts by 2 or more persons for certain purposes, including to create or carry out
restrictions in trade or commerce. If a violator of the act is a corporation, the act punishes the violator
by a fine of the greater of an amount not more than $1,000,000 and an amount related to the
pecuniary gain from the violation or the pecuniary loss to another by the violation, as prescribed. If a
violator of the act is an individual, the act punishes the violator by imprisonment of one, 2, or 3 years
in a state prison or county jail, as specified, imprisonment of not more than one year in a county jail, by
a fine of not more than the greater of $250,000 and an amount related to the pecuniary gain from the
violation or the pecuniary loss to another by the violation, or by both a fine and imprisonment. This bill
would increase the fine described above with respect to corporate violators to $6,000,000. The bill
would also increase the fine described above with respect to an individual violator to $1,000,000. The
bill would impose an additional civil penalty of $1,000,000 on a person, corporation, or business entity
for violating the act, as prescribed.