---
type: "Bill"
title: "Peace officers: basic training requirements."
description: "Existing law requires specified peace officers to successfully complete a training course prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training before exercising the powers of a peace officer. Existing law generally requires a person who does not become employed as a peace officer within 3 years of passing the examination, or who has a 3-year or longer break in service, to pass the examination before exercising the powers of a peace officer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1888"
citation: "California AB 1888 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Peace officers: basic training requirements."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Salas"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-01-18"
last_action: "2018-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85f4c6d4-9a01-4760-bcaa-fcaa7317b4e2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1888"
source_hash: "e4a115427ce96c53abf07dddb06b029eb97ed64c0f12a84788fa6e1bfdb9d577"
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 1888 (20172018) — Peace officers: basic training requirements.

Existing law requires specified peace officers to successfully complete a training course prescribed by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training before exercising the powers of a peace officer. Existing law generally requires a person who does not become employed as a peace officer within 3 years of passing the examination, or who has a 3-year or longer break in service, to pass the examination before exercising the powers of a peace officer.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **01/18/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1888&version=20170AB188899INT)
2. **06/01/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1888&version=20170AB188897CHP)
3. **AB1888** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1888)
4. **05/22/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1888&version=20170AB188898ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1888 SALAS Consent Calendar Second Day — **66–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB1888 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Salas — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-01-19** From printer. May be heard in committee February 18.
- **2018-02-05** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-03-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-03-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 4265.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-03-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-04-19** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4221.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-21** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2018-05-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2018-06-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-06-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 17, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/85f4c6d4-9a01-4760-bcaa-fcaa7317b4e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).