republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-1909.md

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Bill	Falsifying evidence.	Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for a person, or a felony for a peace officer, to knowingly, willfully, intentionally, and wrongfully alter, modify, plant, place, manufacture, conceal, or move any physical matter, digital image, or video recording, with the specific intent that the action will result in a person being charged with a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1909	California AB 1909 (20152016)	bill	Falsifying evidence.	enacted	Lopez	7	25	7	2016-02-11	2016-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/fda317c5-eacb-40ac-a3fa-ab6ac831c485	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1909	d4c23e45ffa0507a3f7d18ece79d0dbfff08487194ea87fe7f5cf00dfb746b8c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1909 (20152016) — Falsifying evidence.

Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for a person, or a felony for a peace officer, to knowingly, willfully, intentionally, and wrongfully alter, modify, plant, place, manufacture, conceal, or move any physical matter, digital image, or video recording, with the specific intent that the action will result in a person being charged with a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/11/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/19/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/27/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/30/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1909 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/24/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1909 Lopez By Leno — 36–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 13–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 1909 LOPEZ Assembly Third Reading — 60–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lopez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-12 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2016-02-25 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-03-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-03-29 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-04-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (April 12). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-19 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-20 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-04 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (May 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-27 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4944.) reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 18. Page 5175.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 1. Page 5244.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 879, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fda317c5-eacb-40ac-a3fa-ab6ac831c485. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).