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AB 1537
Assembly Member Bryan
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Peace officers: secondary employment
Current law provides that every executive or ministerial officer, employee, or appointee of the State of California, or any county or city therein, or any political subdivision thereof, who knowingly asks, receives, or agrees to receive any emolument, gratuity, or reward, or any promise thereof excepting such as may be authorized by law for doing an official act, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Current law exempts from that offense certain employment by a peace officer while off duty, as specified. Existing law also provides that a peace officer shall not be prohibited from engaging in other employment while off duty, as specified. This bill would, notwithstanding those provisions, prohibit a peace officer from being employed by, or being an independent contractor of or volunteer for, the United States Department of Homeland Security or its contractors or any other entity that assists with or engages in immigration enforcement. The bill would provide that failure to comply with this provision constitutes, for certain purposes, an act of dishonesty and that it is grounds for decertification as a peace officer. The bill would require a peace officer to report to their employing law enforcement agency any secondary employment relating to immigration enforcement.
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Introduced: 1/5/2026
Location: 2/2/2026-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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AB 1544
Assembly Member Krell
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Court proceedings: media access
Current law authorizes specified peace officers to close the immediate area surrounding any emergency field command post or other command post or to establish a police line or rolling closure at a demonstration, march, protest, or rally, as specified. Current law exempts a duly authorized representative of any news service, online news service, newspaper, or radio or television station or network from the provisions prohibiting entry into the closed areas mentioned above. This bill would bar a judicial officer, peace officer, or other law enforcement officer from prohibiting a duly authorized representative of a news service, online news service, newspaper, or radio or television station or network from accessing court proceedings that are open to the public.
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Introduced: 1/5/2026
Location: 2/17/2026-Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD.
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AB 1586
Assembly Member Ramos
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Opioid overdose reversal medication: school resource officers
Current law authorizes a school district, county office of education, and charter school to provide emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to school nurses and trained personnel who have volunteered, and authorizes school nurses and trained personnel to use naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an opioid overdose. This bill, to be known as the School Safety and Opioid Overdose Prevention Act, would require a school district, county office of education, or charter school to ensure that (A) each school resource officer, as defined, while on duty at a school campus or school-sponsored activity, carries an opioid antagonist to provide emergency treatment to persons who are suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an opioid overdose and (B) each school resource officer, upon assignment to a schoolsite, and at least every 2 years thereafter, completes an opioid overdose recognition and response training, as specified. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would prohibit a school resource officer who administers an opioid antagonist while assigned to a schoolsite, and their employing or contracting entity, from being held liable in a civil action or being subject to criminal prosecution for the school resource officer’s acts or omissions, unless those acts or omissions constitute gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct, as provided.
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Introduced: 1/14/2026
Location: 1/14/2026-A. PRINT
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AB 1589
Assembly Member Chen
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Firearms: silencers
Current law makes it a felony for any person, firm, or corporation to possess a silencer within this state. Current law exempts specified actions from those provisions, including the possession of silencers by specified peace officers employed by specified law enforcement agencies or by military or naval forces, when on duty and when the use of silencers is authorized by the agency and is within the course and scope of their duties. This bill would further exempt from the prohibition on possessing silencers specified level I reserve peace officers.
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Introduced: 1/15/2026
Location: 2/2/2026-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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AB 1615
Assembly Member Nguyen
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Firearms: unsafe handguns
Current law makes it a crime, punishable by not more than one year in county jail, to manufacture or cause to be manufactured, import into the state for sale, keep for sale, offer or expose for sale, give, or lend an unsafe handgun. Current law establishes certain exemptions to this prohibition, including, among others, exemptions for sales to specified law enforcement agencies and other specified government agencies for use by specified employees and sales to specified peace officers. Current law specifies that the sale of an unsafe handgun to certain specified entities, including county probation departments, and members of those entities, is only authorized if the handgun is to be used as a service weapon by a peace officer who has successfully completed the basic course prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) and who qualifies with the handgun, as specified, at least every 6 months. This bill would authorize a peace officer employed by a county probation department and using an unsafe handgun as a service weapon to satisfy the above-described training requirement by completion of the firearm portion of a training course prescribed by POST and who qualifies with the handgun, as specified, at least every 3 months.
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Introduced: 1/21/2026
Location: 2/2/2026-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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AB 1627
Assembly Member Avila Farias
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Public employment: disqualifications
Current law specifies circumstances that disqualify a person from holding office or being employed as a peace officer, including, among other things, having been convicted of a felony. This bill would disqualify a person from being a peace officer if they were employed by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement between September 1, 2025, and January 20, 2029, or the Alabama Department of Corrections or the Georgia Department of Corrections between January 1, 2020, and January 1, 2026.
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Introduced: 1/26/2026
Status: 1/27/2026-From printer.
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AB 1753
Assembly Member Stefani
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Protective orders: firearms and ammunition
Current law establishes procedures by which a person may petition the court for certain protective or restraining orders, including civil harassment restraining orders, domestic violence restraining orders, elder or dependent adult abuse restraining orders, gun violence restraining orders, postsecondary school restraining orders, and workplace violence restraining orders, to enjoin a restrained person from taking specified actions. Before a hearing on the issuance or denial of a domestic violence restraining order or gun violence restraining order, current law requires the court to ensure that a search has been conducted to determine, among other things, if the subject of the proposed order owns or possesses a firearm as reflected in the Department of Justice Automated Firearms System. If after the search, the court finds that the subject of the proposed order owns or possesses a firearm, existing law requires the court to make a written record as to whether the subject has relinquished the firearm and provided proof of the required storage, sale, or relinquishment of the firearm. Upon a court’s issuance of such a protective order, current law requires the restrained person to relinquish any firearm and ammunition in that person’s immediate possession or control, according to specified procedures. Current law prescribes procedures by which the restrained person must certify compliance with the court, and for the court to determine, by a preponderance of the evidence, whether the person has a firearm in violation of the order. This bill would make clarifying and conforming changes to the procedures relating to the protective or restraining orders described above by explicitly requiring the restrained person to relinquish, in addition to any firearm, any ammunition in that person’s immediate possession or control. The bill would additionally apply the prehearing firearm search and recordkeeping requirements described above to civil harassment restraining orders, workplace violence restraining orders, postsecondary school restraining orders, and elder or dependent adult abuse restraining orders.
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Introduced: 2/9/2026
Status: 2/23/2026-Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD.
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AB 1814
Assembly Member Alanis
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Peace officer training: driving under the influence
Would require, no later than July 1, 2027, the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to establish and maintain a training course relating to the detection and apprehension of drivers whose behavior indicates that they may be driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The bill would require the course to be at least 3 hours and to include certain topics, such as standardized field sobriety testing, physiology of drugs, and report writing, among others. The bill would require peace officers assigned to traffic enforcement to complete the course within one year of their assignment and every 2 years thereafter. The bill would authorize a peace officer to complete other specified training courses, in lieu of this requirement. Because this bill would require additional training for local peace officers, it would impose a state-mandated local program.
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Introduced: 2/10/2026
Status: 2/11/2026-From printer.
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AB 1896
Assembly Member Gonzalez
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Public employment: disqualifications
Current law contains numerous provisions governing the qualifications, standards, and training of peace officers. Current law specifies circumstances that disqualify a person from holding office or being employed as a peace officer, including, among other things, having been convicted of a felony. This bill would disqualify a person from being a peace officer if they were previously employed by an entity that engages in immigration enforcement, as defined, during the period beginning January 20, 2025, and ending January 20, 2029, except as specified.
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Introduced: 2/12/2026
Status: 2/13/2026-From printer.
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AB 2347
Assembly Member Ahrens
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Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training: hate crime training and guidelines.
Current 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. Current law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST), in consultation with specified subject-matter experts, to develop guidelines and a course of instruction and training for law enforcement officers addressing hate crimes. Beginning January 1, 2027, this bill would require POST to conduct a comprehensive review of existing hate crimes training programs, as specified. The bill would require the review to be completed by January 1, 2028. The bill would require POST to, by July 1, 2028, adopt evidence-based training requirements to address the gaps identified in the review regarding the prevention, identification, and investigation of hate crimes.
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Introduced: 2/19/2026
Status: 2/20/2026-From printer.
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SB 691
Senator Wahab
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Body-worn cameras: policies
Current law requires law enforcement agencies, departments, or entities to consider specified best practices regarding the downloading and storage of body-worn camera data, such as specifically stating the length of time that recorded data is to be stored, when establishing policies and procedures for the implementation and operation of a body-worn camera system, as specified. This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2027, each law enforcement agency that has a body-worn camera policy to update that policy to include a procedure for emergency service personnel to request the redaction of evidentiary and nonevidentiary recordings of a patient undergoing medical or psychological evaluation, procedure, or treatment by emergency service personnel.
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Introduced: 2/21/2025
Last Amend: 1/5/2026
Location: 1/27/2026-A. DESK
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SB 937
Senator Gonzalez
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Law enforcement: flashbang grenades and explosive breaching charges
Current law prohibits the use of kinetic energy projectiles or chemical agents by any law enforcement agency to disperse any assembly, protest, or demonstration, except in compliance with specified standards. This bill would prohibit the use of flashbang grenades, as defined, by any peace officer to disperse any assembly, protest, or demonstration, except in compliance with specified standards. The bill would define peace officer as any officer of a local, state, or federal law enforcement agency, or any person acting on behalf of a local, state, or federal law enforcement agency.
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Introduced: 1/29/2026
Status: 2/11/2026-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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SB 1004
Senator Wiener
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Law enforcement: masks
Current law makes it a crime for a law enforcement officer to wear a facial covering in the performance of their duties, except as specified. Current law defines law enforcement officer for these purposes as anyone designated by California law as a peace officer who is employed by a city, county, or other local agency, and any officer or agent of a federal law enforcement agency, agency or law enforcement agency of another state, or any person acting on behalf of a federal law enforcement agency. This bill would add peace officers employed by a state agency to the definition of law enforcement officers, thereby making those law enforcement officers subject to those criminal penalties.
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Introduced: 2/9/2026
Status: 2/18/2026-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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SB 1105
Senator Perez
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Law enforcement.
Current law defines those persons who are peace officers in the state, grants certain authority to those individuals and their employing entities, and places certain requirements on those individuals and their employing entities. Under current law, federal criminal investigators and law enforcement officers are not California peace officers but are granted specified limited arrest authority in limited circumstances including when violations of state and local laws occur in their presence, when there is an immediate danger to persons or property, when detaining a person for evaluation or treatment who, due to a mental illness, is a danger to themselves or others, and when requested by a California law enforcement agency to be involved in a joint task force or criminal investigation. Current law additionally grants peace officer status to federal employees who comply with certain training requirements, while they are engaged in enforcing state or local law on and adjacent to property owned or possessed by the United States Government, with the written consent of local law enforcement officials, as specified. This bill would remove this arrest authority or peace officer status for federal criminal investigators, law enforcement officers, and federal employees. The bill would also prohibit a California law enforcement agency, as defined, from participating in a joint law enforcement task force or interagency agreement, if, among other things, their assistance includes racial or identity profiling, as specified. The bill would require a California law enforcement agency, if it enters into an interagency agreement, to comply with certain provisions, including seeking authorization from the Attorney General.
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Introduced: 2/13/2026
Status: 2/26/2026-Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
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