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type: "Bill"
title: "Hate crimes: nooses, crosses, and swastikas."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2282"
citation: "California AB 2282 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hate crimes: nooses", "crosses", "and swastikas."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bauer-Kahan"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-02-16"
last_action: "2022-09-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1210b097-cfb8-4eb7-a932-d058d2da85ec"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2282"
source_hash: "5f6b360f3dacbc6924329e761dab91d60146081169276f4f4470a9d45c58d87c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# 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.
1. **02/16/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2282&version=20210AB228299INT)
2. **03/30/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2282&version=20210AB228298AMD)
3. **05/19/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2282&version=20210AB228297AMD)
4. **09/18/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2282&version=20210AB228295CHP)
5. **AB2282** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2282)
6. **08/25/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2282&version=20210AB228296ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading AB2282 Bauer-Kahan et al. By Hertzberg — **390** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **60** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **40** (pass) · upper
- AB 2282 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading — **730** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **120** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1210b097-cfb8-4eb7-a932-d058d2da85ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).