Existing law establishes various offenses for a person who places or displays certain symbols, marks, signs, emblems, and other physical impressions, including, but not limited to, a Nazi swastika, hangs nooses, or burns or desecrates crosses or other religious symbols on private and nonprivate property, as specified, with the intent to terrorize a person, as specified. Existing law, for the first conviction, punishes a person who hangs a noose or places or displays a sign, mark, symbol, emblem, or other physical impression with the intent to terrorize a person, as specified, with imprisonment in county jail not to exceed one year, a fine not more than $5,000, or both the fine and imprisonment, and with imprisonment in county jail not to exceed one year, a fine not to exceed $15,000, or both the fine and imprisonment for a subsequent conviction. Existing law, for a person who engages in a pattern of conduct by placing or displaying certain symbols, as specified, allows a person's punishment to be increased to imprisonment of 16 months or 2 or 3 years, a fine not more than $10,000, or both. Existing law punishes a person convicted of burning or desecrating a religious symbol with imprisonment for 16 months or 2 or 3 years, by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by both the fine and imprisonment, or imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, by a fine not to exceed $5,000, or both the fine and imprisonment for the first conviction, and the same punishment for a subsequent conviction except the misdemeanor fine increases to $15,000.
California AB 2282 (20212022) — Hate crimes: nooses, crosses, and swastikas.
Existing law establishes various offenses for a person who places or displays certain symbols, marks, signs, emblems, and other physical impressions, including, but not limited to, a Nazi swastika, hangs nooses, or burns or desecrates crosses or other religious symbols on private and nonprivate property, as specified, with the intent to terrorize a person, as specified. Existing law, for the first conviction, punishes a person who hangs a noose or places or displays a sign, mark, symbol, emblem, or other physical impression with the intent to terrorize a person, as specified, with imprisonment in county jail not to exceed one year, a fine not more than $5,000, or both the fine and imprisonment, and with imprisonment in county jail not to exceed one year, a fine not to exceed $15,000, or both the fine and imprisonment for a subsequent conviction. Existing law, for a person who engages in a pattern of conduct by placing or displaying certain symbols, as specified, allows a person's punishment to be increased to imprisonment of 16 months or 2 or 3 years, a fine not more than $10,000, or both. Existing law punishes a person convicted of burning or desecrating a religious symbol with imprisonment for 16 months or 2 or 3 years, by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by both the fine and imprisonment, or imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, by a fine not to exceed $5,000, or both the fine and imprisonment for the first conviction, and the same punishment for a subsequent conviction except the misdemeanor fine increases to $15,000.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
3rd Reading AB2282 Bauer-Kahan et al. By Hertzberg — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
AB 2282 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading — 73–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)
Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
Allen — coauthor (person)
Berman — coauthor (person)
Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
Bloom — coauthor (person)
Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
Bryan — coauthor (person)
Cooper — coauthor (person)
Gabriel — coauthor (person)
Glazer — coauthor (person)
Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
Levine — author (person)
Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
Medina — coauthor (person)
Min — coauthor (person)
Rubio — coauthor (person)
Ward — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2022-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2022-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
2022-03-03 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2022-03-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
2022-03-30 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2022-03-31 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2022-04-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
2022-05-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 19). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
2022-05-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2022-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2022-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2022-06-08 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2022-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2022-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4996.). 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.
2022-09-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2022-09-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 397, Statutes of 2022. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1210b097-cfb8-4eb7-a932-d058d2da85ec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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