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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Peace officers: independent institutions of higher education: security officers."
+description: "Existing law designates all persons who meet specified standards as peace officers. Existing law requires any sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriff or police officer, as specified, to successfully complete a course of training prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training before exercising the powers of a peace officer. Under existing law, a person regularly employed as a security officer for an independent institution of higher education is not a peace officer but may exercise the powers of arrest of a peace officer during the course and within the scope of his or her employment if the employing institution of higher education has concluded a memorandum of understanding, permitting the exercise of authority, with the sheriff or the chief of police within whose jurisdiction the institution lies."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "AB 2361"
+citation: "California AB 2361 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Peace officers: independent institutions of higher education: security officers."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Santiago"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2016-02-18"
+last_action: "2016-09-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/afb39510-af47-4358-85db-0391cc3b0fb2"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2361"
+source_hash: "8cd2255fe50feb7bde8db9c024022a7e83cce4cde87a82d1017315c130d16d02"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 2361 (20152016) — Peace officers: independent institutions of higher education: security officers.
+
+Existing law designates all persons who meet specified standards as peace officers. Existing law requires any sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriff or police officer, as specified, to successfully complete a course of training prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training before exercising the powers of a peace officer. Under existing law, a person regularly employed as a security officer for an independent institution of higher education is not a peace officer but may exercise the powers of arrest of a peace officer during the course and within the scope of his or her employment if the employing institution of higher education has concluded a memorandum of understanding, permitting the exercise of authority, with the sheriff or the chief of police within whose jurisdiction the institution lies.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/18/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2361&version=20150AB236199INT)
+2. **04/19/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2361&version=20150AB236198AMD)
+3. **06/15/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2361&version=20150AB236197AMD)
+4. **08/11/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2361&version=20150AB236196AMD)
+5. **08/16/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2361&version=20150AB236195AMD)
+6. **09/14/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2361&version=20150AB236193CHP)
+7. **AB2361** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2361)
+8. **08/26/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2361&version=20150AB236194ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 2361 SANTIAGO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–4** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB2361 Santiago By Glazer — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 2361 SANTIAGO Assembly Third Reading — **71–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Santiago — primary (person)
+- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2016-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
+- **2016-03-03** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-03-29** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2016-04-05** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2016-04-18** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 12). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2016-04-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-04-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 3. Page 4622.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2016-05-12** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-06-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-06-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2016-06-23** Withdrawn from committee.
+- **2016-06-23** Ordered to second reading.
+- **2016-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-11** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-16** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5127.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2016-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 4. Page 6195.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2016-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
+- **2016-09-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2016-09-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 356, Statutes of 2016.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/afb39510-af47-4358-85db-0391cc3b0fb2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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