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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Crimes: memorials: veterans and law enforcement."
+description: "Existing law makes it a crime for a person to destroy, cut, mutilate, deface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any tomb, monument, memorial, or marker in a cemetery. Existing law makes it a crime, punishable as a felony or a misdemeanor, to maliciously destroy, cut, break, mutilate, efface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any veterans' memorial constructed or established in specified ways. Existing law makes it a crime, punishable as a felony or a misdemeanor, to maliciously destroy, cut, break, mutilate, efface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any law enforcement memorial or firefighter's memorial."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "AB 2801"
+citation: "California AB 2801 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Crimes: memorials: veterans and law enforcement."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Salas"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2018-02-16"
+last_action: "2018-09-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae8d38ef-3276-402e-b98b-740e88d29143"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2801"
+source_hash: "aa396d8031069540963f6e7388feb04774b4db8af74d70eb3f718793819591ee"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 2801 (20172018) — Crimes: memorials: veterans and law enforcement.
+
+Existing law makes it a crime for a person to destroy, cut, mutilate, deface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any tomb, monument, memorial, or marker in a cemetery. Existing law makes it a crime, punishable as a felony or a misdemeanor, to maliciously destroy, cut, break, mutilate, efface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any veterans' memorial constructed or established in specified ways. Existing law makes it a crime, punishable as a felony or a misdemeanor, to maliciously destroy, cut, break, mutilate, efface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any law enforcement memorial or firefighter's memorial.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/16/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2801&version=20170AB280199INT)
+2. **03/23/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2801&version=20170AB280198AMD)
+3. **04/09/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2801&version=20170AB280197AMD)
+4. **06/14/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2801&version=20170AB280196AMD)
+5. **09/19/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2801&version=20170AB280194CHP)
+6. **AB2801** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2801)
+7. **08/22/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2801&version=20170AB280195ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Special Consent AB2801 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 2801 SALAS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 2801 SALAS Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Salas — primary (person)
+- Gonzalez Fletcher — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
+- **2018-03-08** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2018-04-09** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
+- **2018-04-10** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-18** Coauthors revised.
+- **2018-04-18** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-04-19** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-04-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4900.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-04-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2018-05-10** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 12). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2018-06-14** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
+- **2018-06-18** Withdrawn from committee.
+- **2018-06-18** Ordered to second reading.
+- **2018-06-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-01** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2018-08-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5284.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2018-08-20** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6358.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2018-08-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2018-09-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-09-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 549, Statutes of 2018.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae8d38ef-3276-402e-b98b-740e88d29143`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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