Jesse Gabriel
- Democratic
- Assemblymember
- District 46
Author
Existing 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. Existing law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to develop guidelines and a course of instruction and training for law enforcement officers addressing hate crimes. Existing law requires state law enforcement agencies to adopt a framework or other formal policy created by POST regarding hate crimes. Existing law requires any local law enforcement agency that adopts or updates a hate crime policy to include specified information in that policy, including information on bias motivation. This bill would include a statement of legislative findings and declarations and require the basic course curriculum on the topic of hate crimes to be developed in consultation with subject matter experts, as specified. The bill would, subject to an appropriation of funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act or other statute, require POST to update the basic course to include the viewing of a specified video course developed by POST. The bill would also require POST to make the video available via the online learning portal, and would require all peace officers to complete specified training materials no later than one year after the commission makes the updated course available. The bill would require POST to develop and periodically update an interactive course on hate crimes for in-service peace officers, and require officers to take the course every 6 years. This bill would also require any local law enforcement agency that adopts or updates a hate crime policy to include specified information on recognizing religion-bias hate crimes, and would require those policies to include the discriminatory selection of victims as a form of bias motivation.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 691, Statutes of 2021.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3001.).
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2488.).
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
Ordered to special consent calendar.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26).
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1720.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1746.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 20).
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Read second time and amended.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 23).
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended.
From printer. May be heard in committee January 7.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| AB57 | HTML |
| 12/07/20 - Introduced | |
| 02/25/21 - Amended Assembly | |
| 03/25/21 - Amended Assembly | |
| 05/24/21 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/26/21 - Amended Senate | |
| 09/13/21 - Enrolled | |
| 10/08/21 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 03/22/21- Assembly Public Safety | |
| 04/12/21- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 05/25/21- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 06/27/21- Senate Public Safety | |
| 07/13/21- Senate Appropriations | |
| 08/26/21- Senate Appropriations | |
| 08/31/21- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 09/08/21- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS |
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