Existing law requires specified categories of law enforcement officers to meet training standards pursuant to courses of training certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) . Existing law requires POST to include in its basic training course adequate instruction in the handling of persons with developmental disabilities or mental illness, or both. Existing law also requires POST to establish and keep updated a continuing education classroom training course relating to law enforcement interaction with developmentally disabled and mentally ill persons.
California SB 11 (20152016) — Peace officer training: mental health.
Existing law requires specified categories of law enforcement officers to meet training standards pursuant to courses of training certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) . Existing law requires POST to include in its basic training course adequate instruction in the handling of persons with developmental disabilities or mental illness, or both. Existing law also requires POST to establish and keep updated a continuing education classroom training course relating to law enforcement interaction with developmentally disabled and mentally ill persons.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
SB 11 Beall Senate Third Reading By MAIENSCHEIN — 79–1 (pass) · lower
Unfinished Business SB11 Beall Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Beall — primary (person)
Anderson — coauthor (person)
Chávez — coauthor (person)
Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
Frazier — coauthor (person)
Galgiani — coauthor (person)
Hancock — coauthor (person)
Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
Leno — coauthor (person)
Liu — coauthor (person)
Low — coauthor (person)
Maienschein — coauthor (person)
Mitchell — author (person)
Monning — coauthor (person)
Stone — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2014-12-01 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2014-12-02 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 1.
2015-01-15 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2015-02-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
2015-03-05 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2015-03-11 Set for hearing April 7.
2015-03-23 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
2015-04-14 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 507.) (April 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2015-04-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
2015-05-01 Set for hearing May 11.
2015-05-11 May 11 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2015-05-23 Set for hearing May 28.
2015-05-28 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1145.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2015-06-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2015-06-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1248.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2015-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2015-06-15 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2015-06-30 June 30 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
2015-07-08 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
2015-07-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2015-08-19 August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2015-08-28 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2015-08-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2015-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2015-09-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 1. Page 2722.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2015-09-01 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2015-09-02 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2417.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2015-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
2015-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2015-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 468, Statutes of 2015.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7a0275d6-2f4a-4a7a-8658-da9999f03a8a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).