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 require the Commission to deem there to be an identifiable and unmet training need for the PC 832 course when evaluating a certification request from a probation department for that training course. (Chaptered)
4. AB 953 (Weber) - Law enforcement: racial profiling.
This bill would establish the Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015, revise the definition of racial profiling to instead refer to racial or identity profiling, require agencies that employ peace officers to collect specified data and issue annual reports to the Attorney General, and require the Attorney General to establish the Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board (RIPA).
(Chaptered)
5. AB 1168 (Salas) - Peace officers: basic training requirements.
This bill, until January 1, 2019, extends the 3-year requalification requirement to five years for a deputy sheriff assigned as a PC 830.1(c) custodial peace officer when being reassigned from custodial assignments to PC 830.1(a) general law enforcement duties with the responsibility for the prevention and detection of crime, provided that certain conditions apply. (Chaptered)
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.
(Chaptered)
7. SB 11 (Beall) - Peace officer training: mental health.
This bill would require POST to increase the mental health training in the Regular Basic Course from six hours to at least 15 hours without increasing the hours of the Regular Basic Course. The bill would also require the Commission to establish and keep updated a three-hour classroom-based continuing training course relating to behavioral health and law enforcement interaction with persons with mental illness, intellectual disability, and “substance use disorders.”
(Chaptered)
8. SB 29 (Beall) - Peace officer training: mental health.
This bill would require the Commission to require all field training officers to have at least eight hours of crisis intervention behavioral health training. The bill would require the Commission to update the existing field training officer course to include at least four hours of classroom instruction regarding persons with mental illness or intellectual disability. The bill would also require the Commission to update the existing field training guide to include specified topics relating to mental illness and intellectual disability. (Chaptered)
9. SB 795 (Committee on Public Safety) - Public Safety Omnibus.
This bill includes an amendment to Government Code section 1031 (e) requested by POST to update the outdated language regarding the minimum education requirements for peace officers.
10. ABX2-15 (Eggman) - End of life.
This bill, formerly introduced as SB 128 (Wolk), enacts 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 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. (Chaptered)
This bill creates significant considerations for law enforcement and prosecutors. It also will require POST to address substantial training requirements in basic, coroner, homicide investigation, and in-service training of patrol officers and supervisors.
11. 2016 Omnibus Bill Proposal
Staff intends to request authorization from the Administration to seek an amendment to Penal Code section 33220(b) that extends the existing short-barrel training requirements for shot-guns and rifles to include the use of long-barreled rifles and long-barreled shotguns by on duty peace officers when the use is authorized by the agency and is within the course and scope of their duties. The current statute only requires training for short-barreled rifles and short-barreled shotguns. Currently, long-barreled shotguns and long-barreled rifles are addressed in POST regulation.
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