--- type: "Bill" title: "Firefighters: interaction with persons with mental disabilities." description: "Existing law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to establish a continuing education classroom training course related to law enforcement interaction with mentally disabled persons and to make the course available to law enforcement agencies in California." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20152016" identifier: "SB 1221" citation: "California SB 1221 (20152016)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Firefighters: interaction with persons with mental disabilities."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Hertzberg"] version_count: 6 action_count: 24 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2016-02-18" last_action: "2016-09-14" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ce79ad0-70b2-4c45-ae93-fdf99ce5df69" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1221" source_hash: "c34cda9c111f162e3187f301d3582800e65b61e1b71b62fa22e7ac271a60fce2" 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 1221 (20152016) — Firefighters: interaction with persons with mental disabilities. Existing law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to establish a continuing education classroom training course related to law enforcement interaction with mentally disabled persons and to make the course available to law enforcement agencies in California. ## 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=201520160SB1221&version=20150SB122199INT) 2. **04/26/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1221&version=20150SB122198AMD) 3. **06/08/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1221&version=20150SB122197AMD) 4. **09/14/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1221&version=20150SB122195CHP) 5. **SB1221** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1221) 6. **09/02/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1221&version=20150SB122196ENR) ## Votes - Consent Calendar 2nd — **37–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower - Special Consent — **39–0** (pass) · upper - SB 1221 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By MAIENSCHEIN — **79–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Hertzberg — primary (person) - Bates — coauthor (person) - Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person) - Gallagher — coauthor (person) - Maienschein — coauthor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2016-02-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1` - **2016-02-19** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20. - **2016-03-03** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee` - **2016-03-16** Set for hearing April 12. - **2016-04-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3522.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2016-04-15** Set for hearing April 25. - **2016-04-25** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8, be amended, and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2, amendment-passage` - **2016-04-26** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1` - **2016-04-28** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3713.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2016-04-28** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1` - **2016-05-12** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee` - **2016-06-08** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1` - **2016-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2016-06-29** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2016-06-30** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2016-08-04** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon. - **2016-08-04** Ordered to third reading. - **2016-08-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6018.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2016-08-22** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. - **2016-08-24** Ordered to special consent calendar. - **2016-08-29** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5496.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage` - **2016-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m. - **2016-09-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2016-09-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 367, Statutes of 2016. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ce79ad0-70b2-4c45-ae93-fdf99ce5df69`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).