republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-953.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Law enforcement: racial profiling."
description: "Existing law creates the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training and requires it to develop and disseminate guidelines and training for all law enforcement officers, as described. Existing law prohibits a peace officer from engaging in racial profiling and requires the training to prescribe patterns, practices, and protocols that prevent racial profiling, as defined. Existing law requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to conduct a study of the data that is voluntarily collected by jurisdictions that have instituted a program of data collection with regard to racial profiling."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 953"
citation: "California AB 953 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Law enforcement: racial profiling."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weber"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2015-02-26"
last_action: "2015-10-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/424e454d-1a64-4c72-8dec-7d606729264f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953"
source_hash: "d349ec5a288fd59f5a618864859f441476cc2fd1de8496abf03470fc0590d079"
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 953 (20152016) — Law enforcement: racial profiling.

Existing law creates the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training and requires it to develop and disseminate guidelines and training for all law enforcement officers, as described. Existing law prohibits a peace officer from engaging in racial profiling and requires the training to prescribe patterns, practices, and protocols that prevent racial profiling, as defined. Existing law requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to conduct a study of the data that is voluntarily collected by jurisdictions that have instituted a program of data collection with regard to racial profiling.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/26/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953&version=20150AB95399INT)
2. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953&version=20150AB95398AMD)
3. **04/16/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953&version=20150AB95397AMD)
4. **06/01/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953&version=20150AB95396AMD)
5. **06/30/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953&version=20150AB95395AMD)
6. **08/31/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953&version=20150AB95394AMD)
7. **10/03/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953&version=20150AB95392CHP)
8. **AB953** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953)
9. **09/14/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953&version=20150AB95393ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 953 WEBER Assembly Third Reading — **45–27** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB953 Weber By Mitchell — **26–13** (pass) · upper
- AB 953 WEBER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **43–30** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Weber — primary (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Mitchell — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
- **2015-03-26** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2015-04-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-20** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-13** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 28). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-06-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 45. Noes 27. Page 1842.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-18** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-30** 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`
- **2015-07-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-17** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2015-08-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 27). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-08-31** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 13. Page 2616.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2015-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 43. Noes 30. Page 3079.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-18** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-10-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-10-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 466, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/424e454d-1a64-4c72-8dec-7d606729264f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).