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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Peace officers."
+description: "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."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20252026"
+identifier: "SB 385"
+citation: "California SB 385 (20252026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Peaceofficers"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Seyarto"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-02-14"
+last_action: "2025-10-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ba768d2-aa2f-40a9-8a33-8ae646c3dfa2"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB385"
+source_hash: "e0c1c7181e9b1a0f6f1191147f3180a313d58409c8ae69f8998f2fb1a0eb747c"
+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 SB 385 (20252026) — 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.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/14/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB385&version=20250SB38599INT)
+2. **04/10/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB385&version=20250SB38598AMD)
+3. **10/01/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB385&version=20250SB38596CHP)
+4. **SB385** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB385)
+5. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB385&version=20250SB38597ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading SB385 Seyarto et al. Urgency Clause — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
+- SB 385 Seyarto Third Reading Urgency By Irwin — **77–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Seyarto — primary (person)
+- Wahab — author (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-02-18** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
+- **2025-02-26** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-07** Set for hearing March 25.
+- **2025-03-25** 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. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-28** Set for hearing April 7.
+- **2025-04-07** April 7 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2025-04-08** Set for hearing April 21.
+- **2025-04-10** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-21** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-05-29** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1332.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-29** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2025-06-05** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-17** 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. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2025-07-09** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-07-10** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-07-17** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Garcia.
+- **2025-07-17** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2025-09-11** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3271.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-12** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
+- **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
+- **2025-10-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-10-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 218, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ba768d2-aa2f-40a9-8a33-8ae646c3dfa2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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