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type: "Bill"
title: "Impersonation: search and rescue personnel."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1920"
citation: "California AB 1920 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Impersonation: search and rescue personnel."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Grayson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2018-01-24"
last_action: "2018-09-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb609a45-b927-4ee9-a7f1-d2c2aeabfaeb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1920"
source_hash: "65b7193d2eaf60d328d58ae35a56ebfc21e8a9cfd8e140ca43ad8fa0a5e46fcc"
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 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1920&version=20170AB192099INT)
2. **03/13/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1920&version=20170AB192098AMD)
3. **09/05/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1920&version=20170AB192096CHP)
4. **AB1920** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1920)
5. **08/27/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1920&version=20170AB192097ENR)
## Votes
- AB 1920 GRAYSON Consent Calendar Second Day — **680** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **150** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent AB1920 — **390** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb609a45-b927-4ee9-a7f1-d2c2aeabfaeb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).