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Bill	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 29	California SB 29 (20152016)	bill	Peace officer training: mental health.	enacted	Beall	10	30	8	2014-12-01	2015-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/0e4bd998-45ec-428d-b3ae-7f764bbdb5c8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB29	f464c2857d3ff5e3f96139c4a2649c66673f31aa4b69c911af72f8af76ee9120	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 29 (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.

1. 12/01/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/26/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/23/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/15/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/02/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/08/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/03/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB29 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/04/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB29 Beall Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 16–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 29 Beall Senate Third Reading By MAIENSCHEIN — 77–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Beall — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Chávez — coauthor (person)
• Frazier — coauthor (person)
• Hancock — coauthor (person)
• Leno — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Maienschein — coauthor (person)
• Mitchell — principal coauthor (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.
• 2015-06-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1146.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-06-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1299.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-04 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 16. Noes 1.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 2. Page 2789.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2015-09-03 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2441.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-09 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 469, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0e4bd998-45ec-428d-b3ae-7f764bbdb5c8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).