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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Crime: victims and witnesses: immigration violations."
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description: "Existing law prohibits a peace officer from detaining an individual exclusively for any actual or suspected immigration violation or reporting or turning the individual over to federal immigration authorities whenever an individual who is a victim of or witness to a hate crime, as defined, or who otherwise can give evidence in a hate crime investigation, is not charged with or convicted of committing any crime under state law."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20172018"
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identifier: "AB 493"
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citation: "California AB 493 (20172018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Crime: victims and witnesses: immigration violations."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Jones-Sawyer"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 21
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2017-02-13"
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last_action: "2017-09-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66e4e665-2586-4deb-8f08-361982fb843c"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB493"
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source_hash: "880170405add98abce2d087c488dd68dfd86ac7de9488836eab55932098eae67"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 493 (20172018) — Crime: victims and witnesses: immigration violations.
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Existing law prohibits a peace officer from detaining an individual exclusively for any actual or suspected immigration violation or reporting or turning the individual over to federal immigration authorities whenever an individual who is a victim of or witness to a hate crime, as defined, or who otherwise can give evidence in a hate crime investigation, is not charged with or convicted of committing any crime under state law.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/13/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB493&version=20170AB49399INT)
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2. **06/19/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB493&version=20170AB49398AMD)
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3. **09/01/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB493&version=20170AB49396CHP)
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4. **AB493** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB493)
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5. **08/22/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB493&version=20170AB49397ENR)
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## Votes
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- 3rd Reading AB493 Jones-Sawyer By Lara — **35–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
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- **2017-02-27** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-03-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2017-03-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-04-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 1. Page 961.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2017-04-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-06-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2017-06-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-06-19** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2017-06-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-07-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1937.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2017-07-10** Motion to reconsider made by Senator Lara.
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- **2017-07-10** Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1939.)
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- **2017-07-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1940.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2017-07-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2017-08-21** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 2673.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2017-08-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2017-09-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2017-09-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 194, Statutes of 2017.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/66e4e665-2586-4deb-8f08-361982fb843c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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