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Bill	Police use of force.	Existing law requires law enforcement agencies to maintain a policy on the use of force, as specified. Existing law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to implement courses of instruction for the regular and periodic training of law enforcement officers in the use of force.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1506	California AB 1506 (20192020)	bill	Police use of force.	enacted	McCarty	13	42	9	2019-02-22	2020-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/636128ee-9858-44e7-afbe-981da6b6df02	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1506	a9a1685d6447f4dd20ff20dad7f6482ac61b0ad61a1baef9c9274d88c715519c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1506 (20192020) — Police use of force.

Existing law requires law enforcement agencies to maintain a policy on the use of force, as specified. Existing law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to implement courses of instruction for the regular and periodic training of law enforcement officers in the use of force.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/06/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/15/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 03/26/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/01/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 04/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 05/17/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 06/17/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/17/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/25/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/30/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
12. AB1506 (committee substitute) — source
13. 09/04/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 1506 McCarty Third Reading Urgency — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1506 McCarty et al. By Dodd — 33–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1506 MCCARTY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 60–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• McCarty — primary (person)
• Allen — principal coauthor (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — author (person)
• Beall — principal coauthor (person)
• Berman — author (person)
• Bloom — author (person)
• Bonta — author (person)
• Bradford — principal coauthor (person)
• Burke — author (person)
• Carrillo — author (person)
• Chiu — author (person)
• Chu — author (person)
• Cristina Garcia — author (person)
• Dodd — principal coauthor (person)
• Durazo — principal coauthor (person)
• Eggman — author (person)
• Friedman — author (person)
• Gabriel — author (person)
• Gipson — author (person)
• Gloria — author (person)
• Gonzalez — author (person)
• Grayson — author (person)
• Holden — author (person)
• Hueso — principal coauthor (person)
• Jones-Sawyer — author (person)
• Kalra — author (person)
• Kamlager — author (person)
• Lena Gonzalez — principal coauthor (person)
• Levine — author (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Luz Rivas — author (person)
• Mark Stone — author (person)
• Medina — author (person)
• Mitchell — principal coauthor (person)
• Muratsuchi — author (person)
• Pan — principal coauthor (person)
• Quirk — author (person)
• Reyes — author (person)
• Robert Rivas — author (person)
• Santiago — author (person)
• Stern — principal coauthor (person)
• Ting — author (person)
• Weber — author (person)
• Wicks — author (person)
• Wieckowski — principal coauthor (person)
• Wiener — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-25 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2019-04-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-01-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 3731.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-01-06 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2020-01-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (January 13). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-01-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-01-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-01-21 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 3849.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-01-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-06-17 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2020-06-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-07-01 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2020-08-07 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-08-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-19 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-25 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 1.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2020-08-31 Action rescinded whereby the bill was re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2020-08-31 Ordered to the unfinished business file.
• 2020-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 0. Page 5484.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2020-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 326, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/636128ee-9858-44e7-afbe-981da6b6df02. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).