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Bill	Hate crimes: immigration status.	Existing law makes an act punishable as a hate crime if it is a criminal act committed, in whole or in part, because of an actual or perceived characteristic of the victim relating to the victim's disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. Existing law defines "nationality" for this purpose to include citizenship, country of origin, and national origin. Under existing law, a person who commits a crime that is a hate crime is required to receive an enhanced sentence.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 600	California AB 600 (20212022)	bill	Hate crimes: immigration status.	enacted	Arambula	6	24	8	2021-02-11	2021-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/27bbb6c6-56f1-4382-81a6-a7547dfc80f7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB600	67fb269807a61ff63ee6af05e903ad2f89b003538827d795ec65e2a09ab65daa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 600 (20212022) — Hate crimes: immigration status.

Existing law makes an act punishable as a hate crime if it is a criminal act committed, in whole or in part, because of an actual or perceived characteristic of the victim relating to the victim's disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. Existing law defines "nationality" for this purpose to include citizenship, country of origin, and national origin. Under existing law, a person who commits a crime that is a hate crime is required to receive an enhanced sentence.

Version chain

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

1. 02/11/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/08/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/17/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/24/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB600 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/07/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB600 Arambula By Pan — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 600 Arambula Assembly Third Reading — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 600 Arambula Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Arambula — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-12 From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
• 2021-02-18 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-04-07 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 6). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-08 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-12 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1822.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-16 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-06-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 2295.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-02 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 57. Noes 14. Page 2703.)
• 2021-09-02 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2728.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2021-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 295, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/27bbb6c6-56f1-4382-81a6-a7547dfc80f7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).