Status of Current Legislation
Legislative Update
The following is a list of bills POST is monitoring during the 2023-24 Legislative Session. These bills could have an impact on POST operations or be of significant interest to law enforcement partners. It is not a complete list. This list updates monthly. (Updated 12/15/2022)
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Title and Summary |
Status of Bill |
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AB 21
Assembly Member Gipson
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Peace officers: training
Current law requires specified categories of law enforcement officers to meet training standards pursuant to courses of training certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST). Current law requires POST to require field training officers who are instructors for the field training program to have at least 8 hours of crisis intervention behavioral health training to better train new peace officers on how to effectively interact with persons with mental illness or intellectual disability. This bill would require the commission to revise that training to include instruction on how to effectively interact with persons with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
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Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
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AB 44
Assembly Member Ramos
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Peace officers: tribal police
Current federal law authorizes tribal governments to employ tribal police for the enforcement of tribal law on tribal lands. Current federal law requires the State of California to exercise criminal jurisdiction on Indian lands. Current state law deems a tribal police officer who has been deputized or appointed by a county sheriff as a reserve or auxiliary deputy to be a peace officer in the State of California. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to facilitate greater self-governance in the area of law enforcement by tribal governments and tribal police by granting more consistent authority to tribal police to enforce state laws and by granting tribal police access to the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System. The bill also makes related findings and declarations.
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Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: 12/6/2022-From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
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SB 47
Senator Roth
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Child abuse or neglect reports
The Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act requires a mandated reporter to report whenever they know or reasonably suspect that a child has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Current law also authorizes any other person to report known or suspected child abuse or neglect. Under current law, reports of suspected child abuse or neglect are made to any police department, sheriff’s department, county probation department, if designated by the county to receive mandated reports, or county welfare department. This bill would require an agency that receives a report of known or suspected child abuse to take specified actions, including requiring an investigator to make contact with the person who made the report and visit the child, who is the subject of the report, in person to determine if the child should be removed from the home during the pendency of an investigation into a report of child abuse or neglect.
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Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 5.
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SB 50
Senator Bradford
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Criminal procedure: arrests
Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to limiting a peace officer’s authority to initiate pretextual stops to reduce racial profiling and the harm stemming from such stops.
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Introduced: 12/6/2022
Status: From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 5.
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