---
type: "Bill"
title: "Peace officers."
description: "Under existing law, federal criminal investigators and law enforcement officers are not California peace officers, but are authorized to exercise the powers of arrest of a peace officer in this state under specified circumstances, including when probable cause exists to believe that a public offense that involves immediate danger to persons or property has just occurred or is being committed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1440"
citation: "California AB 1440 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Peace officers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kalra"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-02-17"
last_action: "2017-07-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99e22592-4580-4375-a58a-ab7a060d7634"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1440"
source_hash: "20b0624405fa79b6c305437b28b6b89ddf5488434cfd6207dcd277e746999f58"
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 1440 (20172018) — Peace officers.

Under existing law, federal criminal investigators and law enforcement officers are not California peace officers, but are authorized to exercise the powers of arrest of a peace officer in this state under specified circumstances, including when probable cause exists to believe that a public offense that involves immediate danger to persons or property has just occurred or is being committed.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/17/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1440&version=20170AB144099INT)
2. **03/28/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1440&version=20170AB144098AMD)
3. **06/14/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1440&version=20170AB144097AMD)
4. **07/24/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1440&version=20170AB144095CHP)
5. **AB1440** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1440)
6. **07/07/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1440&version=20170AB144096ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 1440 KALRA Assembly Third Reading — **58–3** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1440 Kalra By Lara — **27–8** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1440 KALRA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **56–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kalra — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2017-03-27** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-28** 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`
- **2017-03-29** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-04-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 3. Page 1705.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-08** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-06-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-06-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 8. Page 1803.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-06-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 1 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-07-06** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 56. Noes 4. Page 2466.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-07-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2017-07-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 116, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/99e22592-4580-4375-a58a-ab7a060d7634`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).