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type: "Bill"
title: "Peace officers: deputy sheriffs."
description: "Existing law establishes categories of peace officers with varying powers and authority to make arrests and carry firearms. Under existing law, in certain counties, including the Counties of Butte and Calaveras, a deputy sheriff, who is employed to perform duties exclusively or initially relating to custodial assignments with responsibilities for maintaining the operations of county custodial facilities, is a peace officer whose authority extends to any place in the state only while engaged in the performance of the duties of the officer's employment and for the purpose of carrying out the primary function of employment relating to the officer's custodial assignments, or when performing other law enforcement duties directed by the officer's employing agency during a local state of emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2974"
citation: "California AB 2974 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Peace officers", "deputy sheriffs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Megan Dahle"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-02-16"
last_action: "2024-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1bd0cd3d-85e0-464f-bd9c-69b37d16212b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2974"
source_hash: "a7753d15cafbe451154dcb26e302db195161d3bfbd8727358516670db2bc653e"
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 2974 (20232024) — Peace officers: deputy sheriffs.
Existing law establishes categories of peace officers with varying powers and authority to make arrests and carry firearms. Under existing law, in certain counties, including the Counties of Butte and Calaveras, a deputy sheriff, who is employed to perform duties exclusively or initially relating to custodial assignments with responsibilities for maintaining the operations of county custodial facilities, is a peace officer whose authority extends to any place in the state only while engaged in the performance of the duties of the officer's employment and for the purpose of carrying out the primary function of employment relating to the officer's custodial assignments, or when performing other law enforcement duties directed by the officer's employing agency during a local state of emergency.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/16/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2974&version=20230AB297499INT)
2. **06/14/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2974&version=20230AB297497CHP)
3. **AB2974** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2974)
4. **06/05/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2974&version=20230AB297498ENR)
## Votes
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2974 Megan Dahle — **360** (pass) · upper
- AB 2974 Megan Dahle Assembly Third Reading — **750** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **80** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **40** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Megan Dahle — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2024-03-11** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-04** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-11** From Consent Calendar by request of Assembly Member Essayli. To Third Reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4780.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-04-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-01** Referred to Com. on PUB S. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-28** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (May 28). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-29** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-06-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4290.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-06-03** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2024-06-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-06-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 18, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1bd0cd3d-85e0-464f-bd9c-69b37d16212b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).