republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-1920.md

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Bill	Impersonation: search and rescue personnel.	Existing law makes it a crime for a person who is not a peace officer, with the intent of fraudulently impersonating a peace officer, or of fraudulently inducing the belief that he or she is a peace officer, to willfully wear, exhibit, or use the badge, authorized uniform, insignia, emblem, device, label, certificate, card, or writing, of a peace officer.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1920	California AB 1920 (20172018)	bill	Impersonation: search and rescue personnel.	enacted	Grayson	5	21	7	2018-01-24	2018-09-05	openstates	ocd-bill/eb609a45-b927-4ee9-a7f1-d2c2aeabfaeb	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1920	65b7193d2eaf60d328d58ae35a56ebfc21e8a9cfd8e140ca43ad8fa0a5e46fcc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1920 (20172018) — Impersonation: search and rescue personnel.

Existing law makes it a crime for a person who is not a peace officer, with the intent of fraudulently impersonating a peace officer, or of fraudulently inducing the belief that he or she is a peace officer, to willfully wear, exhibit, or use the badge, authorized uniform, insignia, emblem, device, label, certificate, card, or writing, of a peace officer.

Version chain

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

1. 01/24/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/13/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/05/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB1920 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/27/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1920 GRAYSON Consent Calendar Second Day — 68–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB1920 — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Grayson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-24 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-01-25 From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
• 2018-02-05 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-03-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 6). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-03-13 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-03-14 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-04-04 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-05 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4643.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-04-25 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-06-25 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-21 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2018-08-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5702.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2018-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 252, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eb609a45-b927-4ee9-a7f1-d2c2aeabfaeb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).