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Bill	Crimes: false personation.	Existing law prohibits credibly impersonating a peace officer, firefighter, or employee of a public utility, state or local government agency, or search and rescue team, as specified. A violation of these prohibitions is punishable as a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1899	California AB 1899 (20212022)	bill	Crimes: false personation.	enacted	Mathis	6	24	7	2022-02-09	2022-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/c09ca444-faa7-429c-8ef1-f1b09cc3c514	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1899	f42b726ab91fd35d5a78c8a74bfc4f9e96651b6a8417bcc65e849829676bed19	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1899 (20212022) — Crimes: false personation.

Existing law prohibits credibly impersonating a peace officer, firefighter, or employee of a public utility, state or local government agency, or search and rescue team, as specified. A violation of these prohibitions is punishable as a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/03/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/22/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/30/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1899 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/25/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1899 Mathis Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB1899 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 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
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mathis — primary (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Salas — coauthor (person)
• Villapudua — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-09 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-10 From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
• 2022-02-18 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-03-03 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-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-07 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-03-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-03-22 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-23 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2022-03-30 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4968.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-02 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-22 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4977.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-23 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2022-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 954, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c09ca444-faa7-429c-8ef1-f1b09cc3c514. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).