Bill Text: CA AB2062 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Local law enforcement hiring grants.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-19 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2062 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2062-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2062
| Introduced by Assembly Member Salas |
February 14, 2022 |
An act to add the heading of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 13900) to Title 6.5 of Part 4 of, and to add and repeal Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 13910) of Title 6.5 of Part 4 of, the Penal Code, relating to law enforcement.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2062, as introduced, Salas.
Local law enforcement hiring grants.
Existing law provides for the training and certification of local peace officers, including police and sheriff deputies. Existing law also requires criminal justice and delinquency prevention planning districts to be established for the purpose of coordinating local criminal justice activities and planning for the use of state and federal action funds made available through any grant programs.
This bill, upon appropriation of funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act and until January 1, 2029, would require the Board of State and Community Corrections to establish a grant program to provide $50,000,000 in grants to local law enforcement agencies to incentivize peace officers to work in local law enforcement agencies that are in underserved communities and to live in the communities that they are serving. The bill would require grant funds to
be used to provide a 5-year supplement to peace officer salaries in local law enforcement agencies that are in underserved communities that have had a homicide rate higher than the state average for the past 5 years or more and where the peace officer lives within 5 miles of the office in which they work. The bill would require local law enforcement agencies that receive grants to report specified information to the board annually and would require the board to report to the Legislature and the Governor’s office on the efficacy of the program, as prescribed, on or before July 1, 2028.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The heading of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 13900) is added to Title 6.5 of Part 4 of the Penal Code, to read:CHAPTER 1. Criminal Justice Planning Districts
SEC. 2.
Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 13910) is added to Title 6.5 of Part 4 of the Penal Code, to read:CHAPTER 2. Local Law Enforcement Hiring Grants
13910.
(a) The Board of State and Community Corrections shall establish a grant program to provide fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) in grant funds to incentivize peace officers to work in local law enforcement agencies that are in underserved communities and to live in the communities that they are serving.(b) Grant funds may be used to increase the salary of a peace officer who meets the following criteria:
(1) Works in a police or sheriff’s department that is in an underserved community that has had a homicide rate higher than the state average for the past five years or more.
(2) Lives within a five mile radius of
the primary police department or sheriff’s office in which they work.
(3) Is either of the following:
(A) A peace officer licensed on or after January 1, 2023.
(B) A peace officer licensed prior to January 1, 2023, who transfers, on or after January 1, 2023, to an agency in an underserved community from an agency that is not in an underserved community.
(c) Funds granted pursuant to this chapter shall be used to supplement, not supplant, local law enforcement funding.
(d) Grant funds shall be used to increase a peace officer’s salary for five years. The grant need not be applied in the same amount for all five years, but it may only be used for a peace officer’s
salary.
13911.
(a) The local law enforcement agencies granted funds pursuant to Section 13910 shall report all of the following to the board annually, as determined by the board:(1) The name and officer identification number of the peace officer whose salary is being supplemented with the grant funds.
(2) Verification that the officer meets the requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 13910.
(3) The amount of the grant funding being used to supplement that officer’s salary in each of the grant years.
(4) If the peace officer who was the recipient of the grant
funding in the prior year is no longer employed by the recipient agency, then verification that the employing agency is using the remaining grant funds for a similar salary enhancement for another peace officer that meets the requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 13910.
(b) (1) If, at the time the annual report is due, the law enforcement agency has grant funds that are not being used because of a vacancy, the agency shall include in the report a hiring plan to fill the vacancy with a peace officer who will be eligible to receive the grant funds.
(2) A law enforcement agency submitting a hiring plan pursuant to paragraph (1) shall submit an update to the board six months after the hiring plan is submitted stating whether they have hired a peace officer who is eligible to receive the funds.
(3) If a recipient law enforcement agency has grant funds that are not being used for a period of one year, the board may reassess the grant and, if the agency no longer qualifies for the grant, if the agency is not using the grant, or if the grant is not achieving the desired results, may require the return of the remaining unencumbered grant moneys. Returned grant moneys shall be reallocated to other law enforcement agency applicants or returned to the General Fund.
13912.
(a) On or before July 1, 2028, the board shall report to the Legislature and the Governor’s office on the efficacy of the grant program, including, but not limited to, all of the following:(1) How many law enforcement agencies were granted funds under this chapter.
(2) How many peace officers received increased salaries with those funds.
(3) The efficacy of the grant program in hiring and retaining peace officers in agencies in underserved communities.
(b) A report to be submitted pursuant to this subdivision shall be submitted in compliance with
Section 9795 of the Government Code.
