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type: "Bill"
title: "Peace officers: misconduct: employment."
description: "Existing law requires each department or agency in this state that employs peace officers to establish a procedure to investigate complaints by members of the public against the personnel of the department or agency. Existing law requires complaints and any reports or findings related to the complaints to be retained for at least 5 years and allows all complaints retained to be maintained in the peace officer's general personnel file or in a separate file designated by the department or agency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2327"
citation: "California AB 2327 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Peace officers: misconduct: employment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quirk"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2018-02-13"
last_action: "2018-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e99db810-b71a-4ab0-828b-f31cf96d4e7b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2327"
source_hash: "798a684665901a5dc978011ae2fa80b1cb2043b9193475b1925c03eb1a6e91b2"
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 2327 (20172018) — Peace officers: misconduct: employment.
Existing law requires each department or agency in this state that employs peace officers to establish a procedure to investigate complaints by members of the public against the personnel of the department or agency. Existing law requires complaints and any reports or findings related to the complaints to be retained for at least 5 years and allows all complaints retained to be maintained in the peace officer's general personnel file or in a separate file designated by the department or agency.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/13/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2327&version=20170AB232799INT)
2. **09/30/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2327&version=20170AB232797CHP)
3. **AB2327** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2327)
4. **08/27/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2327&version=20170AB232798ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **70** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **70** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent AB2327 — **390** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- AB 2327 QUIRK Consent Calendar Second Day — **680** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **150** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Quirk — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2018-03-01** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, 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 4645.) `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`
- **2018-05-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 15). 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 5703.). `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.
- **2018-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 966, Statutes of 2018.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e99db810-b71a-4ab0-828b-f31cf96d4e7b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).