1.      AB 65 (Alejo) - Local law enforcement: body-worn cameras: grant program.

This bill would require the Board of State and Community Corrections to develop a grant fund program to assist local law enforcement in the purchase of body-worn cameras, delete the transfer requirement for the Driver Training Penalty Assessment Fund and instead require a transfer to the Body-worn Camera Fund.

2.      AB 334 (Cooley) Peace officers: training: profiling of motorcycle riders.

This bill would require POST to develop training to ensure that the profiling of motorcycle riders is addressed in basic and in-service training. It would require local law enforcement agencies to adopt written policy designed to condemn and prevent the profiling of motorcycle riders.

3.      AB 546 (Gonzalez) Peace officers: basic training requirements.

This bill would authorize a probation department to apply to either the Commission or the Board of State and Community Corrections to become a certified presenter of the PC 832 Course for the purpose of training probation officers.

4.      AB 953 (Weber) Law enforcement: racial profiling.

This bill would establish the Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015. It would among other changes, revise the definition of racial profiling to instead refer to racial or identity profiling, make a conforming change to the prohibition against law enforcement officers engaging in that practice, and make the prohibition specifically applicable to probation and parole officers.

5.      AB 1168 (Salas) Peace officers: basic training requirements.

This bill would, until January 1, 2019, exempt a custodial peace officer (Penal Code section 830.1 (c)) who previously completed the Regular Basic Course from the requirement to retake the examination (Requalification Course) if he or she has been continuously employed as a custodial peace officer for a period not exceeding five years by the agency making the appointment.

6.     AB 1194 (Eggman) Mental health: involuntary commitment.

This bill would require, when determining if a person is a danger to himself or herself, or to others, as a result of a mental health disorder, that the individual making that determination consider available relevant information about the historical course of the person’s mental disorder if the individual concludes that the information has a reasonable bearing on the determination.

7.      SB 11 (Beall) Peace officer training: mental health.

This bill would require POST to add a 20-hour behavioral health classroom training course in the academy in addition to the current hourly requirement. The bill would require POST to establish and keep updated a 4-hour behavioral health course, and it would require law enforcement officers assigned to patrol duties with the rank of supervisor or below to complete the course every 4 years.  

8.      SB 29 (Beall) Peace officer training: mental health.

This bill would require POST to require field training officers who are instructors for the field training program to have 20 hours of promising or evidence-based behavioral health training. This bill would also require, as part of the field training program, 20 hours of field training relating to law enforcement interaction with persons with mental illness or intellectual disability.

9.      SB 128 (Wolk) End of life.

This bill would enact the End of Life Option Act authorizing an adult who meets certain qualifications, and who has been determined by his or her attending physician to be suffering from a terminal disease, as defined, to make a request for a drug prescribed pursuant to these provisions for the purpose of ending his or her life. It would create new crimes, making it a felony to knowingly alter or forge a request for medication to end an individual’s life without his or her authorization or to conceal or destroy a rescission of a request for medication, if it is done with the intent or effect of causing the individual’s death.  It would also be a felony to knowingly coerce or exert undue influence on an individual to request medication for the purpose of ending his or her life or to destroy a rescission of a request.