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Bill	Law enforcement: hate crimes.	Existing law defines a "hate crime" as a criminal act committed, in whole or in part, because of actual or perceived characteristics of the victim, including, among other things, race, religion, disability, and sexual orientation. Existing law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to develop guidelines and a course of instruction and training for law enforcement officers addressing hate crimes. Existing law requires state law enforcement agencies to adopt a framework or other formal policy created by POST regarding hate crimes. Existing law requires any local law enforcement agency that adopts or updates a hate crime policy to include specified information in that policy, including information on bias motivation.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 57	California AB 57 (20212022)	bill	Law enforcement: hate crimes.	enacted	Gabriel	8	27	8	2020-12-07	2021-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/e49d171a-8b59-4b1e-b044-1b1dff63bb7e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB57	e8eb6a4d8cadff9851f05a94305e986ada6a7edc33790bdee9e0c3aed5561ee4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 57 (20212022) — Law enforcement: hate crimes.

Existing law defines a "hate crime" as a criminal act committed, in whole or in part, because of actual or perceived characteristics of the victim, including, among other things, race, religion, disability, and sexual orientation. Existing law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to develop guidelines and a course of instruction and training for law enforcement officers addressing hate crimes. Existing law requires state law enforcement agencies to adopt a framework or other formal policy created by POST regarding hate crimes. Existing law requires any local law enforcement agency that adopts or updates a hate crime policy to include specified information in that policy, including information on bias motivation.

Version chain

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

1. 12/07/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/25/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/25/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/24/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/08/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB57 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent AB57 Gabriel et al. By Min — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 57 Gabriel Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 57 Gabriel Assembly Third Reading — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gabriel — primary (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Bloom — coauthor (person)
• Chiu — author (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — coauthor (person)
• Glazer — coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Holden — coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Medina — coauthor (person)
• Min — principal coauthor (person)
• Nazarian — coauthor (person)
• Nguyen — coauthor (person)
• Quirk — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Stern — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)
• Ward — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-12-08 From printer. May be heard in committee January 7.
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-02-25 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
• 2021-03-01 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-03-24 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-25 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-26 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-05-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1746.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1720.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-03 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2488.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3001.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 691, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e49d171a-8b59-4b1e-b044-1b1dff63bb7e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).