---
type: "Bill"
title: "Peace officers: peer support."
description: "Under existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, the Governor is authorized to proclaim a state of emergency, as defined, under specified circumstances. The California Emergency Services Act also authorizes the governing body of a city, county, city and county, or an official designated by ordinance adopted by that governing body, to proclaim a local emergency, as defined. Existing law provides that a person has a privilege to refuse to disclose, and prevent another from disclosing, a confidential communication with specified persons, except in specified circumstances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1117"
citation: "California AB 1117 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Peace officers: peer support."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Grayson"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 32
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4239c372-734a-4947-9b56-34d8f8d5b797"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1117"
source_hash: "37ce5750b154796dcbed291caa4a2698c6e4250d6ebaa9501359329f59857deb"
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 1117 (20192020) — Peace officers: peer support.

Under existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, the Governor is authorized to proclaim a state of emergency, as defined, under specified circumstances. The California Emergency Services Act also authorizes the governing body of a city, county, city and county, or an official designated by ordinance adopted by that governing body, to proclaim a local emergency, as defined. Existing law provides that a person has a privilege to refuse to disclose, and prevent another from disclosing, a confidential communication with specified persons, except in specified circumstances.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1117&version=20190AB111799INT)
2. **03/13/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1117&version=20190AB111798AMD)
3. **04/24/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1117&version=20190AB111797AMD)
4. **07/11/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1117&version=20190AB111796AMD)
5. **09/06/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1117&version=20190AB111795AMD)
6. **10/08/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1117&version=20190AB111793CHP)
7. **AB1117** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1117)
8. **09/16/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1117&version=20190AB111794ENR)

## Votes

- Be re-referred to the Committees on [Health] and [Judiciary] — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1117 Grayson et al. By Leyva — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1117 Grayson Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1117 Grayson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Grayson — primary (person)
- Limón — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2019-03-07** Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-14** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-18** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96(a). `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** From committee: Be re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 23). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-24** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2077.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-12** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 9). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-07-11** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-12** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-06** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2760.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-11** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3370.)
- **2019-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3422.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 621, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4239c372-734a-4947-9b56-34d8f8d5b797`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).