Existing law requires each law enforcement agency in the state to develop, adopt, and implement written policies and standards for officers’ responses to domestic violence calls.
This bill would require every law enforcement agency in the state to develop and adopt a lethality assessment tool, as defined, for use in responding to domestic violence calls by July 1, 2018. By imposing additional duties on local agencies, this bill would create a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the Department of Justice to develop a model lethality assessment tool for guidance and potential adoption by local law enforcement agencies by June 1, 2018.
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.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
The California Constitution and existing property tax law authorize a person who is either severely disabled or over 55 years of age to transfer the base year value, as defined, of property that is eligible for the homeowners’ property tax exemption to a replacement dwelling that is of equal or lesser value located within the same county as the property from which the base year value is transferred, and if a county ordinance so providing has been adopted, to a replacement dwelling that is located in a different county.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.