---
type: "Bill"
title: "Crime: victims and witnesses: immigration violations."
description: "Existing law prohibits a peace officer from detaining an individual exclusively for any actual or suspected immigration violation or reporting or turning the individual over to federal immigration authorities whenever an individual who is a victim of or witness to a hate crime, as defined, or who otherwise can give evidence in a hate crime investigation, is not charged with or convicted of committing any crime under state law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 493"
citation: "California AB 493 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime: victims and witnesses: immigration violations."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones-Sawyer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-13"
last_action: "2017-09-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66e4e665-2586-4deb-8f08-361982fb843c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB493"
source_hash: "880170405add98abce2d087c488dd68dfd86ac7de9488836eab55932098eae67"
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 493 (20172018) — Crime: victims and witnesses: immigration violations.

Existing law prohibits a peace officer from detaining an individual exclusively for any actual or suspected immigration violation or reporting or turning the individual over to federal immigration authorities whenever an individual who is a victim of or witness to a hate crime, as defined, or who otherwise can give evidence in a hate crime investigation, is not charged with or convicted of committing any crime under state law.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB493&version=20170AB49399INT)
2. **06/19/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB493&version=20170AB49398AMD)
3. **09/01/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB493&version=20170AB49396CHP)
4. **AB493** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB493)
5. **08/22/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB493&version=20170AB49397ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB493 Jones-Sawyer By Lara — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2017-02-27** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 1. Page 961.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-04-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-06-19** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-06-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-07-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1937.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-07-10** Motion to reconsider made by Senator Lara.
- **2017-07-10** Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1939.)
- **2017-07-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1940.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-07-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-08-21** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 2673.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-08-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2017-09-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-09-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 194, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/66e4e665-2586-4deb-8f08-361982fb843c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).