The days of Hollywood power brokers shelling out hush money to silence accusations of serious sex crimes are over in California.

Since 2006, it has been illegal in California to settle “any civil action” claiming a “felony sex offense” with a non-disclosure agreement requiring the accuser to keep quiet about the “factual information” of the claim. In January of this year, the law was expanded to ban NDAs in civil settlements of claims for “childhood sex abuse.”

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Deborah L. Rhode, professor of legal ethics and director Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford Law School, told TheWrap that the law is “better than nothing” but “isn’t broad enough.”

“It doesn’t cover what’s come out in recent days about related patterns of abusive conduct,” she said.

Rhode said she’s unaware of any efforts to enforce the law. The Bar did not respond to TheWrap’s request for information on any enforcement of the law.