California Senate Bill SB170 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 170INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Gaines FEBRUARY 5, 2015 An act to amend Section 46 of the Civil Code, relating to civil law. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 170, as introduced, Gaines. Personal rights. Existing law defines "slander" as a false and unprivileged publication, communicated orally or by radio, mechanical, or other means, which causes specified damages. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 46 of the Civil Code is amended to read: 46. Slander is a false and unprivileged  publication, orally uttered, and also communications by radio or any mechanical   publication communicated orally, or by radio, mechanical,  or other  means   means,  which  does any of the following  :  1.   (a)  Charges  any   a  person with  a  crime, or with having been indicted, convicted, or punished for  crime;   a crime.   2.   (b)  Imputes in him  or her  the present existence of an infectious, contagious, or loathsome  disease;   disease.   3.   (c)  Tends directly to injure him  or her  in respect to his  or her  office, profession, trade or business, either by imputing to him  or her  general disqualification in those respects which the office or other occupation peculiarly requires, or by imputing something with reference to his  or her  office, profession, trade, or business that has a natural tendency to lessen its  profits;   profits.   4.   (d)  Imputes to him  or her  impotence or a want of  chastity; or   chastity.   5. Which, by   (e)     By  natural  consequence,   consequence  causes actual damage.