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Bill	Crimes: memorials: veterans and law enforcement.	Existing law makes it a crime for a person to destroy, cut, mutilate, deface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any tomb, monument, memorial, or marker in a cemetery. Existing law makes it a crime, punishable as a felony or a misdemeanor, to maliciously destroy, cut, break, mutilate, efface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any veterans' memorial constructed or established in specified ways. Existing law makes it a crime, punishable as a felony or a misdemeanor, to maliciously destroy, cut, break, mutilate, efface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any law enforcement memorial or firefighter's memorial.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2801	California AB 2801 (20172018)	bill	Crimes: memorials: veterans and law enforcement.	enacted	Salas	7	26	6	2018-02-16	2018-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/ae8d38ef-3276-402e-b98b-740e88d29143	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2801	aa396d8031069540963f6e7388feb04774b4db8af74d70eb3f718793819591ee	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2801 (20172018) — Crimes: memorials: veterans and law enforcement.

Existing law makes it a crime for a person to destroy, cut, mutilate, deface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any tomb, monument, memorial, or marker in a cemetery. Existing law makes it a crime, punishable as a felony or a misdemeanor, to maliciously destroy, cut, break, mutilate, efface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any veterans' memorial constructed or established in specified ways. Existing law makes it a crime, punishable as a felony or a misdemeanor, to maliciously destroy, cut, break, mutilate, efface, or otherwise injure, tear down, or remove any law enforcement memorial or firefighter's memorial.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/09/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/14/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/19/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2801 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/22/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent AB2801 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2801 SALAS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2801 SALAS Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Salas — primary (person)
• Gonzalez Fletcher — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2018-03-08 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-03-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-04-05 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-09 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-10 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-04-18 Coauthors revised.
• 2018-04-18 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-19 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4900.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-10 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-06-13 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-14 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-06-18 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2018-06-18 Ordered to second reading.
• 2018-06-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-01 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2018-08-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5284.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-20 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6358.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-27 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 549, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ae8d38ef-3276-402e-b98b-740e88d29143. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).