Peace Officers Standards & Training Board Changes

Plain English: This amendment requires the Attorney General to propose updates to police training programs, expands and changes who sits on the Peace Officers Standards & Training Board, sets a minimum age of 21 for new officers, and allows full-time instructors to receive state or local grants.

• The Attorney General must submit a plan by December 31, 2030, to update basic, reserve, and refresher police training programs; if the board rejects it, they must try again within one year.
• The Peace Officers Standards & Training Board will grow from 24 members to 28 members with new seats for a community college academy director, a law enforcement-operated academy director, and a reserve officer representative.
• New police officers must be at least 21 years old to receive their basic certification.
• Full-time training instructors are now eligible to receive grants or funding from state and local entities.

• The specific details of the proposed training updates depend on a future proposal that has not been written yet.
• The exact date this law takes effect depends on whether voters file a petition for a referendum, which could delay it until after an election in November 2026.

Plain English: This amendment adds a rule that people who have lost their police training certification cannot serve on the board, and it clarifies which officers can attend classes paid for by grants.

• People whose P.O.S.T. certification has been revoked or suspended are not allowed to be appointed to the P.O.S.T. Board.
• Officers who have had their certification revoked or suspended may still attend training classes that use grant funding, but they cannot receive individual grants from the board.

• The amendment text does not explain what happens if someone is appointed to the board after losing their certification.
• The specific types of 'grant-funded' classes mentioned are not defined in this short excerpt.

Plain English: This amendment adds a new rule that stops the Peace Officers Standards and Training Board from approving any instructor or training academy if an employee has had their peace officer certification revoked.

• The P.O.S.T. board cannot approve anyone as a skills instructor if they have lost their own peace officer certification due to revocation.
• The P.O.S.T. board cannot approve any law enforcement training academy if one of its instructors has had their peace officer certification revoked.

• This amendment only covers the specific rule about approving instructors and academies; it does not explain how or why certifications are revoked in other parts of the bill.
• The text provided is an amendment to a previous committee draft, so some context from earlier versions may be missing.

Plain English: This amendment would require the P.O.S.T. board to create specific training on immigration laws and officer limits, which new officers must finish before certification and current officers by July 1, 2027.

• The Peace Officers Standards & Training (P.O.S.T.) Board must design uniform training covering current immigration laws, the legal limits of helping with federal immigration enforcement, and how far an officer's authority reaches.
• New peace officers cannot receive their certification until they have completed this specific immigration-related training.
• Peace officers who are already certified on the day this law starts must finish the new training by July 1, 2027.

• This amendment was lost in committee and did not become part of the final bill.
• The text does not explain exactly what topics will be covered inside the immigration law or jurisdiction lessons beyond the general categories listed.

Plain English: This amendment removes the word 'PROGRAM' from the requirement that non-law enforcement board members must finish a citizens' law enforcement academy.

• The text now says non-law enforcement members must complete a 'citizens' law enforcement academy' instead of a 'citizens' law enforcement academy PROGRAM'.
• This change keeps the same rule that these members must finish the training before they are appointed or within one year after being appointed.

• The amendment only changes how the requirement is written and does not explain why removing the word 'PROGRAM' matters for the actual rules.
• This text only shows a small edit to an earlier draft, so it does not describe all other parts of the full bill.

Plain English: This amendment changes the deadline for a proposal to update police training laws so it must be submitted after September 1, 2026.

• The bill now requires that any new proposal from the attorney general regarding basic, reserve, and refresher law enforcement training cannot take effect until after September 1, 2026.

• The amendment text only shows a change to one specific date line and does not explain what happens if no proposal is submitted by the original December 31, 2030 deadline.
• It is unclear from this short excerpt whether 'after September 1, 2026' replaces an earlier start date or modifies how the final submission works.

Plain English: This amendment removes a phrase about suspended status and clarifies that full-time training instructors can receive grant money from sources other than the P.O.S.T. board.

• Removes the words 'OR SUSPENDED' from page 3, line 11 of the bill report.
• Adds a new rule stating that full-time training academy instructors are allowed to get individual grant funding from organizations other than the P.O.S.T. board.

• The amendment text does not explain what specific law or section originally contained the words 'OR SUSPENDED' before they were removed.
• The exact date of the Judiciary Committee Report mentioned in the text is listed as April 1, 2026, which appears to be a future date relative to current events.