Bill Text: CA SB1020 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Law enforcement agency regulations: shooting range targets.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-21 - In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. [SB1020 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB1020-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1020

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Introduced by Senator Bradford

February 06, 2024

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An act to add Section 13658 to the Penal Code, relating to law enforcement agency regulations.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1020, as introduced, Bradford. Law enforcement agency regulations: shooting range targets.

Existing law requires law enforcement agencies to maintain specified policies, including policies regulating the use of force and the use of certain defensive weapons. Existing law requires each peace officer to complete all pre-service and in-service training mandated by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.

This bill would require each law enforcement agency and police academy to prohibit the use, as specified, of ethnic shooting targets, as defined.

By requiring local agencies to have new policies and potentially requiring agencies to replace and repurchase these items, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: YES  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 13658 is added to the Penal Code, to read:

13658.

 (a) Each law enforcement agency and police academy shall have a policy prohibiting the use of ethnic shooting targets for any training, qualification, competition, or other range activities that are sponsored by the agency or academy, take place on any agency or academy property, or involve the participation of any agency or academy personnel or academy trainees.

(b) The policy described in subdivision (a) shall also prohibit providing ethnic shooting targets to any peace officer or trainee for personal use.

(c) As used in this section, the following definitions apply:

(1) “Ethnic shooting target” means any physical range target that depicts a human form or part of a human form that includes skin colors or facial features from which a person might reasonably discern a race or ethnicity of the person depicted. An “ethnic shooting target” does not include a silhouette target or a human form target with a nonhuman skin color such as green or blue that does not have facial features.

(2) “Law enforcement agency” means any department or agency of the state or any county, city, or other political subdivision thereof that employs any peace officer described in Section 830 that is authorized to carry a firearm.

(3) “Police academy” means any school or other training facility certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to provide the basic course, or any module or component thereof, or any in-service training to peace officers that involves livefire firearms training.

SEC. 2.

 If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.