Bill Text: CA AB2224 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Emergency vehicles: blue warning lights.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2224 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2224-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2224	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 16, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Achadjian

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to amend Section 25258 of the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2224, as amended, Achadjian. Emergency vehicles: blue warning
lights.
   Under existing law, specified peace officers, including, but not
limited to, police officers, members of the University of California
Police Department, and members of the California National Guard,
 are authorized to   may, in the performance of
the officers' duties,  display a specified blue warning light on
their emergency vehicles.
   This bill  additionally  would authorize 
additional peace officers, including, but not limited to, parole
officers and correctional officers,   probation
officers, in the performance of their duties,  to display a
specified blue warning light on their emergency vehicles.  The
bill would require a probation officer to complete an emergency
vehicle operations course certified by the Commission on Peace
Officer Standards and Training before he or she may operate a vehicle
with a blue warning light. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  yes
  no  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 25258 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read:
   25258.  (a) An authorized emergency vehicle operating under the
conditions specified in Section 21055 may display a flashing white
light from a gaseous discharge lamp designed and used for the purpose
of controlling official traffic control signals.
   (b)  (1)    An authorized emergency vehicle used
by a  probation officer, or a  peace officer, as defined in
Section 830.1 of, subdivision (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), or
(i) of Section 830.2 of, subdivision (n) of Section 830.3 of,
subdivision (b) of Section 830.31 of, subdivision (a) or (b) of
Section 830.32 of, Section 830.33 of, subdivision (a) of Section
830.36 of, subdivision (a) of Section 830.4 of,  Section
830.5 of,  or Section 830.6 of, the Penal Code, in the
performance of the  peace  officer's duties, may, in
addition, display a steady or flashing blue warning light visible
from the front, sides, or rear of the vehicle. 
   (2) Before a probation officer operates a vehicle with a blue
warning light, he or she shall complete an emergency vehicle
operations course certified by the Commission on Peace Officer
Standards and Training. 
   (c) Except as provided in subdivision (a), a vehicle shall not be
equipped with a device that emits any illumination or radiation that
is designed or used for the purpose of controlling official traffic
control signals.