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Bill	Firefighting uniforms.	Existing law provides that any person, other than an officer or member of a fire department, who willfully wears, exhibits, or uses the authorized uniform of an officer or member of a fire department or a deputy state fire marshal, with the intent of fraudulently impersonating an officer or member of a fire department or the Office of the State Fire Marshal, or of fraudulently inducing the belief that he or she is an officer or member of a fire department or the Office of the State Fire Marshal, is guilty of a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 388	California AB 388 (20092010)	bill	Firefighting uniforms.	enacted	Miller	5	20	5	2009-02-23	2009-08-06	openstates	ocd-bill/dacae506-1fff-4eff-b1b1-44f3a6ca523b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB388	f83064795ea3a64db7a71f4a3b1148f5721aab90f32450b25973902a169fff93	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 388 (20092010) — Firefighting uniforms.

Existing law provides that any person, other than an officer or member of a fire department, who willfully wears, exhibits, or uses the authorized uniform of an officer or member of a fire department or a deputy state fire marshal, with the intent of fraudulently impersonating an officer or member of a fire department or the Office of the State Fire Marshal, or of fraudulently inducing the belief that he or she is an officer or member of a fire department or the Office of the State Fire Marshal, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/06/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB388 (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/02/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #11 AB388 Miller — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 388 MILLER Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Miller — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
• 2009-03-09 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2009-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2009-04-01 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 31). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-04-23 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-04-27 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-04 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1240.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-05-14 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2009-06-09 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-06-23 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2009-06-24 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-25 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-06-29 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1520.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-06-29 In Assembly. To enrollment.
• 2009-07-30 Enrolled and to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2009-08-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-08-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 100, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dacae506-1fff-4eff-b1b1-44f3a6ca523b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).