republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-492.md

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Bill	Advertising and solicitations: government documents.	Existing law makes it unlawful for a person, firm, corporation, or association that is a nongovernmental entity to use a seal, emblem, insignia, trade or brand name, or any term, symbol, or content that reasonably could be interpreted or construed as implying any federal, state, or local government, military veteran entity, or military or veteran service organization connection, approval, or endorsement of a product or service, unless certain criteria are met. This provision includes financial products, goods, or services, including mailings, electronic messages, Internet Web sites, periodicals, or television commercials disseminated unless the nongovernmental entity has an expressed connection with or approval of that governmental entity.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 492	California AB 492 (20172018)	bill	Advertising and solicitations: government documents.	enacted	Grayson	7	24	6	2017-02-13	2017-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/06f9dd7a-6bac-4aaf-8810-dba2989f2dac	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB492	69bc73c9978f0cfc9b7dd8358f03ae24cb153cdc85333263560b85a79f4bcf21	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 492 (20172018) — Advertising and solicitations: government documents.

Existing law makes it unlawful for a person, firm, corporation, or association that is a nongovernmental entity to use a seal, emblem, insignia, trade or brand name, or any term, symbol, or content that reasonably could be interpreted or construed as implying any federal, state, or local government, military veteran entity, or military or veteran service organization connection, approval, or endorsement of a product or service, unless certain criteria are met. This provision includes financial products, goods, or services, including mailings, electronic messages, Internet Web sites, periodicals, or television commercials disseminated unless the nongovernmental entity has an expressed connection with or approval of that governmental entity.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/19/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/24/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/26/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB492 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/07/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB492 Grayson et al. By Jackson — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 492 GRAYSON Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 492 GRAYSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Grayson — primary (person)
• Friedman — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2017-02-27 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-03-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 21). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-29 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-03-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-04-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1390.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-06-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-06-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-17 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2017-07-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-08-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 1. Page 2332.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-05 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 3. Page 2919.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2017-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 293, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/06f9dd7a-6bac-4aaf-8810-dba2989f2dac. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).