{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-85","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 85","heading":"","body":"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.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25. - 680.4.]","TITLE 6. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE LEGISLATIVE POWER [85. - 88.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"998b91c81ca337eff60f319600ff7731cd77dca5b9c7fc15b59cd50011016170","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-77","next":"us-ca/pen-86"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}