State: California

2019 CA A.B. 465

Title - Requiring any program permitting mental health professionals to respond to emergency mental health crisis calls in collaboration with law enforcement to ensure the program is supervised by a licensed mental health professional, including a licensed clinical social worker.

Law Number - 2019 CA A.B. 465

TOPICS: mental health

STATE(S):

STATUS: Enacted

2019 CA S.B. 221

Title - Requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt a written procedure to account for firearms that are owned, acquired, maintained, sold, loaned, lost, stolen from, or in any way possessed by that agency. Requires agency employees to report to the agency lost or stolen firearms owned by the agency, or used or carried by an employee within the course of employment that are not owned by the agency, within 5 days of the date they know or reasonably should have known that the firearms were lost or stolen.

Law Number - 2019 CA S.B. 221

TOPICS: data collection

STATE(S):

STATUS: Failed

2019 CA S.B. 230

Title - An act to add Chapter 17.4 (commencing with Section 7286) to Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code, and to add Section 13519.10 to the Penal Code, relating to law enforcement.

Law Number - 2019 CA S.B. 230

TOPICS: de-escalation, escalation, use of force

STATE(S):

STATUS: Enacted

2019 CA A.B. 358

Title - Requiring a law enforcement agency that has investigated a case involving the collection of sexual assault kit evidence to create an information profile for the kit. Requires, upon notification of a hit in a certain database, the entry of certain information into a certain database. Requires the Department of Justice to create a statewide sexual assault kit tracking system that allows victims of sexual assault to track or receive updates regarding the status and location of their sexual assault kits.

Law Number - 2019 CA A.B. 358

TOPICS: data collection, sexual assault

STATE(S):

STATUS: Failed

2019 CA S.B. 194

Title - Relating to the use of masks and disguises while engaged in criminal behavior. Deletes use of false whiskers from the list of identity-concealing items. Making it a misdemeanor to fail to remove a mask or personal disguise upon demand of a law enforcement officer or public safety official while in a public space of a campus or other facility of a community college, California State University, University of California, or public school, as specified.

Law Number - 2019 CA S.B. 194

TOPICS: criminal liability, police in schools

STATE(S):

STATUS: Failed

2019 CA A.B. 329

Title - An act to amend Sections 13951 and 13956 of the Government Code, relating to victim compensation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately

Law Number - 2019 CA A.B. 329

TOPICS: criminal liability, investigation, investigation/prosecution of police misconduct, use of force

STATE(S):

STATUS: Pending

2019 CA S.B. 203

Title - Requiring youth under a certain age to consult with legal counsel prior to a custodial interrogation and before waiving certain rights. Directs a court to consider any willful failure of a law enforcement officer to allow a youth under a certain age to speak with counsel before a custodial interrogation in determining the credibility of that law enforcement officer.

Law Number - 2019 CA S.B. 203

TOPICS: interrogations

STATE(S):

STATUS: Enacted

2019 CA A.B. 300

Title - Requiring a law enforcement agency, if it has updated its crime reporting system to align with the California Incident Based Reporting System, to include in the agency’s informational, incident, and crime reports a check box indicating whether the underlying incident in the report is a suspected hate crime or hate incident and complete for each hate crime or hate incident, a supplemental hate crime or hate incident report form that indicates the type of bias motivation and any other identifying information.

Law Number - 2019 CA A.B. 300

TOPICS: data collection

STATE(S):

STATUS: Failed

2019 CA A.B. 301

Title - Requring the Department of Justice to carry out various duties relating to documenting and responding to hate crimes, including conducting reviews of all law enforcement agencies to evaluate hate crime data and policies, implementing a school-based program in conjunction with school districts and local law enforcement agencies aimed at educating students on how to report all suspected hate crimes, and submitting certain reports for inclusion in the national crime repository for crime data.

Law Number - 2019 CA A.B. 301

TOPICS: data collection, hate crimes, police in schools

STATE(S):

STATUS: Failed

2019 CA S.B. 257

Title - Requiring the Department of Justice, if the Department determines that a person prohibited from owning, purchasing, receiving, or possessing a firearm, by the provisions in existing law, has attempted to acquire a firearm, to notify the local law enforcement agency with primary jurisdiction. Requires notification of the county department of mental health in the county in which the person was last known to reside if the person is prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm because of a mental illness.

Law Number - 2019 CA S.B. 257

TOPICS: data collection

STATE(S):

STATUS: Failed

2019 CA A.B. 165

Title - Requiring the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to develop and implement a course of training regarding gun violence restraining orders. Requires the course to be incorporated into the course or courses of basic training for law enforcement officers. Requires the course or courses to include specified topics, including the process of filing a petition for gun violence restraining orders.

Law Number - 2019 CA A.B. 165

TOPICS: training

STATE(S):

STATUS: Failed

2019 CA A.B. 66 (NS)

Title - Police: use of force

Law Number - 2019 CA A.B. 66 (NS)

TOPICS: oversight, use of force

STATE(S):

STATUS: Failed

Regulates use of kinetic energy projectiles and chemical weapons in law enforcement