Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits obstructing, injuring, harassing, intimidating or interfering with people "in connection with any vaccination services."

Highlights:

• Defines “intimidation” as making a true threat directed to a person or group of persons with the intent of placing that person or group of persons in fear of bodily harm or death (Sec. 1.c-1).

• Defines “true threat” as a statement where the speaker means to communicate a serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence to a particular person or group of persons regardless of whether the person intends to act on the threat (Sec. 1.c-2).

• Defines “harass” as the nonconsensual and knowing approach within 30 feet of another person or occupied vehicle to pass a leaflet or handbill, displaying a sign to, or engaging in oral protest, education, or counseling with that other person in a public way or on a sidewalk area (Sec. 1.c-4).

• Defines “interfere with” as to restrict a person’s freedom of movement (Sec. 1.c-5).

• Establishes it is unlawful to knowingly approach within 30 feet of any person while a person is making the approach within 100 feet of the entrance of a vaccination site and is seeking to enter or exit a vaccination site, or any occupied motor vehicle seeking entry or exit, to obstruct, injure, harass, intimidate, or interfere with that person or vehicle occupant in connection with any vaccination services (Sec. 1.a).

• Specifies no reimbursement is mandated because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, or changes to the definition of a crime (Sec. 2).

• Alleges this act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of public peace, health, or safety and will go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are as follows (Sec. 3):

• To ensure public peace and safety during the process of distributing vaccinations during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and public health crisis; and 

• This measure must go into immediate effect.

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits obstructing, injuring, harassing, intimidating or interfering with people "in connection with any vaccination services."

Highlights:

• Defines “intimidation” as making a true threat directed to a person or group of persons with the intent of placing that person or group of persons in fear of bodily harm or death (Sec. 1.c-1).

• Defines “true threat” as a statement where the speaker means to communicate a serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence to a particular person or group of persons regardless of whether the person intends to act on the threat (Sec. 1.c-2).

• Defines “harass” as the nonconsensual and knowing approach within 30 feet of another person or occupied vehicle to pass a leaflet or handbill, displaying a sign to, or engaging in oral protest, education, or counseling with that other person in a public way or on a sidewalk area (Sec. 1.c-4).

• Defines “interfere with” as to restrict a person’s freedom of movement (Sec. 1.c-5).

• Establishes it is unlawful to knowingly approach within 30 feet of any person while a person is making the approach within 100 feet of the entrance of a vaccination site and is seeking to enter or exit a vaccination site, or any occupied motor vehicle seeking entry or exit, to obstruct, injure, harass, intimidate, or interfere with that person or vehicle occupant in connection with any vaccination services (Sec. 1.a).

• Specifies no reimbursement is mandated because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, or changes to the definition of a crime (Sec. 2).

• Alleges this act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of public peace, health, or safety and will go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are as follows (Sec. 3):

• To ensure public peace and safety during the process of distributing vaccinations during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and public health crisis; and 

• This measure must go into immediate effect.

Full Bill Text