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SB-385 • 2026

Peace officers.

Peace officers.

Education
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Seyarto (S) , Wahab
Last action
2025-10-01
Official status
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 218, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide information on what happens to the modern policing degree program after this change, nor how education criteria for peace officers will be set in the future.

Peace Officers Law Changes

The law removes a requirement for the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to approve education criteria for peace officers based on recommendations from a report about modern policing programs.

What This Bill Does

  • Removes the need for the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to create education rules for police officers based on a specific report.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Peace officers and their training programs
  • The Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training

Terms To Know

Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training
A group within the California Department of Justice that sets rules for police officer education.
Urgency statute
A law that takes effect right away, without waiting for a regular start date.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify what will happen to the modern policing degree program after this change.
  • It is unclear how peace officers' education criteria will be set now that the commission no longer has to approve them based on the report.

Bill History

  1. 2025-10-01 California Legislative Information

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 218, Statutes of 2025.

  2. 2025-10-01 California Legislative Information

    Approved by the Governor.

  3. 2025-09-22 California Legislative Information

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

  4. 2025-09-12 California Legislative Information

    In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. 2025-09-11 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3271.) Ordered to the Senate.

  6. 2025-07-17 California Legislative Information

    Ordered to third reading.

  7. 2025-07-17 California Legislative Information

    From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Garcia.

  8. 2025-07-10 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

  9. 2025-07-09 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 9).

  10. 2025-06-17 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  11. 2025-06-05 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on PUB. S.

  12. 2025-05-29 California Legislative Information

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  13. 2025-05-29 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1332.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  14. 2025-04-22 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  15. 2025-04-21 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.

  16. 2025-04-10 California Legislative Information

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  17. 2025-04-08 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing April 21.

  18. 2025-04-07 California Legislative Information

    April 7 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.

  19. 2025-03-28 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing April 7.

  20. 2025-03-25 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 533.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  21. 2025-03-07 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing March 25.

  22. 2025-02-26 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and APPR.

  23. 2025-02-18 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.

  24. 2025-02-14 California Legislative Information

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Official Summary Text

SB 385, Seyarto.
Peace officers.
Existing law required the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, on or before June 1, 2023, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a modern policing degree program and to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature outlining a plan to implement the program. Existing law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training within the Department of Justice and requires the commission, within 2 years of the submission of the report, to approve and adopt the education criteria for peace officers, based on the recommendations in the report.
This bill would repeal the requirement for the commission to approve and adopt the criteria described above.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

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