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Bill	Criminal law: badges: impersonation.	Existing law makes it a crime for a person who is not a peace officer to impersonate a peace officer. Specifically, existing law makes it a misdemeanor subject to punishment by up to 6 months imprisonment in a county jail, or a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that imprisonment and fine, for any person to willfully wear, exhibit, or use any badge, insignia, emblem, device, label, certificate, card, or writing that falsely purports to be authorized for use by a peace officer, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	SB 702	California SB 702 (20132014)	bill	Criminal law: badges: impersonation.	enacted	Anderson	7	27	7	2013-02-22	2014-09-20	openstates	ocd-bill/279bbf23-bc57-4e18-9f2c-6eeb8b2a21ee	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB702	cb880da15da2be894997152a2172a1e92b13683000c76ee2174a7862d9595cfb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 702 (20132014) — Criminal law: badges: impersonation.

Existing law makes it a crime for a person who is not a peace officer to impersonate a peace officer. Specifically, existing law makes it a misdemeanor subject to punishment by up to 6 months imprisonment in a county jail, or a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that imprisonment and fine, for any person to willfully wear, exhibit, or use any badge, insignia, emblem, device, label, certificate, card, or writing that falsely purports to be authorized for use by a peace officer, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/14/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/02/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/20/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB702 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/19/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #5 — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 702 Anderson Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB702 Anderson Concurrence — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Be referred to Committee on Public Safety. — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Anderson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-22 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2013-02-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 26.
• 2013-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2013-03-11 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-04-26 Set for hearing May 7.
• 2013-05-13 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 853.) (May 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-14 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-15 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2013-05-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 972.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-20 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2013-06-03 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-06-05 Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-06-18 Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-06-25 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2014-06-02 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-05 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96(a). referral-committee
• 2014-06-12 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-06-26 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-06-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-08-07 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-14 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6017.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-14 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2014-08-18 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4545.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2014-09-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 514, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/279bbf23-bc57-4e18-9f2c-6eeb8b2a21ee. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).